2018–19 ABL season | |
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League | ASEAN Basketball League |
Sport | Basketball |
Duration | Regular season: 16 November 2018 – 24 March 2019 Playoffs: 29 March – 15 May 2019 |
Number of games | 150 (130 regular season, 20 playoffs) |
Number of teams | 10 |
TV partner(s) | Cable TV Vidio ABS-CBN Sports and Action StarHub MONO29 Eleven Sports Network FPT Group |
Regular season | |
Top seed | Formosa Dreamers |
Season MVP | Local: Bobby Ray Parks Jr. (Alab) World import: Xavier Alexander (Slingers) |
ABL finals | |
Champions | CLS Knights Indonesia |
Runners-up | Singapore Slingers |
Finals MVP | Maxie Esho |
The 2018–19 ABL season was the ninth season of competition of the ASEAN Basketball League. The regular season started on 16 November 2018 and ended on 28 March 2019.[1]
Teams
[edit]All the teams in 2017–18 season returned for this season. However, the following changes happened:
- Chong Son Kung Fu relocated and rebranded to Macau Black Bears.[2]
- Zhuhai Wolf Warriors was the 10th team in the ABL, added after Kung Fu relocated to Macau.[3]
Venues
[edit]Team | City / Region | Arena | Capacity |
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CLS Knights Indonesia | Surabaya, East Java | GOR Kertajaya Surabaya | 3,000 |
Formosa Dreamers | Changhua, Changhua County | Changhua Stadium | 8,000 |
Eastern | Wan Chai, Hong Kong | Southorn Stadium | 2,000 |
Macau Black Bears | Foshan, Guangdong | Foshan International Sports and Cultural Center | 14,700 |
Taipa, Macau | University of Macau Sports Complex | ||
Mono Vampire | Bangkok Metropolitan Region | Stadium 29, Nonthaburi | 5,000 |
Saigon Heat | Ho Chi Minh City | Canadian International School Vietnam Arena | 2,500 |
Alab Pilipinas | Santa Rosa, Laguna | City of Santa Rosa Multi-Purpose Complex | 5,700 |
Metro Manila | Filoil Flying V Centre, San Juan | 5,500 | |
Caloocan Sports Complex, Caloocan | 3,000 | ||
Lapu-Lapu City | Hoops Dome | 6,000 | |
Lapu-Lapu Sports Complex | |||
Singapore Slingers | Singapore | OCBC Arena, Kallang | 3,000 |
Westports Malaysia Dragons | Kuala Lumpur | MABA Stadium | 2,500 |
Wolf Warriors | Zhuhai, Guangdong | Doumen Gymnasium, | |
Zhuhai Jinan University, | |||
Macau | Foshan Shishan Gymnasium | ||
University of Macau Sports Complex |
Personnel
[edit]
Imports
[edit]The following is the list of imports, which had played for their respective teams at least once. Each team can register 3 imports. Flags indicate the citizenship/s the player holds.
Local heritage
[edit]Wolf Warriors | Saigon Heat | Alab Pilipinas | Macau Black Bears | Mono Vampire |
---|---|---|---|---|
Tse Sit Chun |
Corey Cillia Chris Dierker Trần Đăng Khoa Justin Young Henry Nguyen Sang Đinh Stefan Nguyen Tim Alan Van Waale |
Bobby Ray Parks Jr. Josh Urbiztondo Lawrence Domingo Caelan Tiongson Brandon Rosser Ethan Alvano |
Kane Ma Nathan Yu Derek King Liu Zankun Luo Yongxuan Jenning Leung |
Freddie Goldstein Tyler Lamb Moses Morgan |
CLS Knights Indonesia | Westports Malaysia Dragons | Formosa Dreamers | Eastern | Singapore Slingers |
Brandon Jawato Wei Long Wong |
Jonathan Wong Zhong Han | Kenneth Chien |
Regular season
[edit]Each team will play 26 games throughout the season, 13 at home and 13 away. Each team will play the remaining 4 teams in their group, twice each at home and away. Each team will also play the 5 teams from the other group, once each at home and away. The groupings are as follows:
- Bears, Warriors, Eastern, Dreamers, Alab
- Knights, Slingers, Dragons, Vampire, Heat
Standings
[edit]Pos | Team | W | L | PCT | GB | Qualification |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Formosa Dreamers | 19 | 7 | .731 | — | Playoffs |
2 | Alab Pilipinas | 18 | 8 | .692 | 1 | |
3 | Singapore Slingers | 16 | 10 | .615 | 3 | |
4 | CLS Knights Indonesia | 15 | 11 | .577 | 4 | |
5 | Saigon Heat | 14 | 12 | .538[a] | 5 | |
6 | Macau Black Bears | 14 | 12 | .538[a] | 5 | |
7 | Eastern | 13 | 13 | .500 | 6 | |
8 | Mono Vampire | 11 | 15 | .423 | 8 | |
9 | Westports Malaysia Dragons | 8 | 18 | .308 | 11 | |
10 | Wolf Warriors | 2 | 24 | .077 | 17 |
Notes:
Results
[edit]Playoffs
[edit]Bracket
[edit]Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||
1 Formosa Dreamers | 0 | |||||||||
8 Mono Vampire | 2 | |||||||||
8 Mono Vampire | 1 | |||||||||
4 CLS Knights Indonesia | 2 | |||||||||
4 CLS Knights Indonesia | 2 | |||||||||
5 Saigon Heat | 1 | |||||||||
4 CLS Knights Indonesia | 3 | |||||||||
3 Singapore Slingers | 2 | |||||||||
2 Alab Pilipinas | 0 | |||||||||
7 Eastern | 2 | |||||||||
7 Eastern | 0 | |||||||||
3 Singapore Slingers | 2 | |||||||||
3 Singapore Slingers | 2 | |||||||||
6 Macau Black Bears | 1 | |||||||||
Quarterfinals
[edit]The quarterfinals was a best-of-three series, with the higher seeded team hosting game 1, and if necessary game 3.
Team 1 | Series | Team 2 | Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3 |
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Formosa Dreamers | 0–2 | Mono Vampire | 80–83 | 68–70 | — |
San Miguel Alab Pilipinas | 0–2 | Eastern | 88–90 | 84–102 | — |
Singapore Slingers | 2–1 | Macau Black Bears | 102–91 | 78–80 | 81–79 |
BTN CLS Knights Indonesia | 2–1 | Saigon Heat | 84–59 | 81–86 | 68–56 |
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Semifinals
[edit]The semifinals was a best-of-three series, with the higher seeded team hosting game 1, and if necessary game 3.
Team 1 | Series | Team 2 | Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3 |
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Singapore Slingers | 2–0 | Eastern | 101–70 | 80–73 | — |
BTN CLS Knights Indonesia | 2–1 | Mono Vampire | 86–77 | 71–79 | 89–75 |
Finals
[edit]The finals is a best-of-five series, with the higher seeded team hosting Game 1, 2, and 5, if necessary.
Team 1 | Series | Team 2 | Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3 | Game 4 | Game 5 |
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Singapore Slingers | 2–3 | BTN CLS Knights Indonesia | 67–86 | 77–57 | 63–60 | 74–87 | 81–84 |
Awards
[edit]End-of-season awards
[edit]The winners were announced before game 2 of the 2019 ABL finals at the OCBC Arena, Singapore.
- Most Valuable Players:
- Local: Bobby Ray Parks Jr. (San Miguel Alab Pilipinas)
- World Import: Xavier Alexander (Singapore Slingers)
- Defensive Player of the Year: John Fields (Singapore Slingers)
- Coach of the Year: Dean Murray (Formosa Dreamers)
Players of the Week
[edit]Week | Player | Club | Ref |
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Week 1 | Eric Ferguson | Eastern | [51] |
Week 2 | Xavier Alexander | Singapore Slingers | [52] |
Week 3 | Mikh McKinney | Macau Black Bears | [53] |
Week 4 | Larry Liew | Singapore Slingers | [54] |
Week 5 | Renaldo Balkman | San Miguel Alab Pilipinas | |
Week 6 | Cai Chen | Wolf Warriors | [55] |
Week 7 | Lee Ki | Eastern | |
Week 8 | Maxie Esho | CLS Knights Indonesia | |
Week 9 | Wei Long Wong | CLS Knights Indonesia | |
Week 10 | Peter John Ramos | San Miguel Alab Pilipinas | |
Week 11 | O'Darien Bassett | Eastern | |
Week 12 | Mike Singletary | Mono Vampire | |
Week 13 | Bobby Ray Parks Jr. | San Miguel Alab Pilipinas | |
Week 14 | John Fields | Singapore Slingers | |
Week 15 | Malcolm Miller | Formosa Dreamers | |
Week 16 | Doug Herring Jr. | CLS Knights Indonesia | |
Week 17 | Dewarick Spencer | Macau Black Bears | |
Week 18 | Xavier Alexander | Singapore Slingers |
References
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- ^ "Hsu Hao Cheng Out, Dean Murray In as Head Coach for Formosa Dreamers". Archived from the original on 2018-10-14. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
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- ^ "Malcolm Miller Signs With Formosa Dreamers for ABL 2018-2019". Archived from the original on 2018-10-12. Retrieved 2018-10-12.
- ^ "Will Artino joins Taiwan Club".
- ^ "Glass complete 2018/19 signing for Dreamers".
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- ^ "Michael Holyfield To Boost Hong Kong Frontline".
- ^ "Trey Gilder will be joining Hong Kong Eastern Basketball team for this upcoming ABL 2018-2019 as their import". Archived from the original on 2018-10-12. Retrieved 2018-10-12.
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- ^ "Eastern Makes Big Acquisition, Signs Ex-Mono Vampire Samuel Deguara". Archived from the original on 2018-10-12. Retrieved 2018-10-12.
- ^ "Macau Black Bears Enlist Second World Import for Upcoming ABL Season".
- ^ "Macau Taps New World Import for the Upcoming ABL Season".
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- ^ "Anthony Tucker Returns to the ABL with the Macau Black Bears".
- ^ "Singletary retained for 2018/19".
- ^ "Mono Vampire replace Charles with White".
- ^ "Mono Vampire Brings In Romeo Travis".
- ^ "Marcus Keene the new killer for Vampire".
- ^ "ABL Fixture Christien Charles Joins Mono Vampire".
- ^ "Brickman retained for 2018/19".
- ^ "KYLE BARONE – THE PERFECT CENTER OF SAIGON HEAT". Archived from the original on 2018-10-12. Retrieved 2018-10-12.
- ^ "LET'S MEET MURPHY BURNATOWSKI – SAIGON HEAT NEW IMPORT PLAYER". Archived from the original on 2018-10-12. Retrieved 2018-10-12.
- ^ "De Angelo Hamilton will take Trevon Hughes' place who was placed on the Injured List".
- ^ "DAVONTE LACY – THE GREAT 3-POINT SHOOTER". Archived from the original on 2018-10-12. Retrieved 2018-10-12.
- ^ "Renaldo Balkman returns as Alab boosts ABL title-retention bid".
- ^ "Ramos the new Alab import".
- ^ "Xavier Alexander Re-Signs for 4th Season with Singapore Slingers". Archived from the original on 2018-10-12. Retrieved 2018-10-12.
- ^ "Singapore Slingers sign John Fields to Bulk Up Down Low for Upcoming Season". Archived from the original on 2018-10-12. Retrieved 2018-10-12.
- ^ "Singapore Slingers land Jerran Young".
- ^ "Eversley return to KL Dragon".
- ^ "Westports Malaysia Dragons Sign Replacement Import".
- ^ "Nigerian center as new import".
- ^ "Gaines join KL Dragons".
- ^ "Westports Malaysia Dragons Bring In Stand-In Import".
- ^ "The Wolf Warriors have two new World Imports in Mike Bell and Eric Tisby".
- ^ "Shawntez Patterson replace Eddy Curry".
- ^ "Mitchell the import for Zhuhai".
- ^ "Mario Wuysang comes out of retirement, will banner Zhuhai".
- ^ "Eric Tisby the new import".
- ^ "Curry the import for Zhuhai".
- ^ "Wolf Warriors Bring In Former NBA Guard".
- ^ "Player of the Week: Eric Ferguson of Hong Kong Eastern (Nov. 16-18)". 21 November 2018.
- ^ "Player of the Week: Xavier Alexander of the Singapore Slingers (Nov. 19 to 25)". 27 November 2018.
- ^ "Player of the Week: Mikh McKinney of the Macau Black Bears (Nov. 26 to Dec. 2)". 5 December 2018.
- ^ "Player of the Week: Larry Liew of the Singapore Slingers (Dec.3 to Dec. 9)". 11 December 2018.
- ^ "Player of the Week: Cai Chen of Wolf Warriors (Dec. 17 to Dec. 23)". 28 December 2018.
External links
[edit]- 2018–19 ABL season
- 2018–19 in Asian basketball leagues
- ASEAN Basketball League seasons
- 2018–19 in Chinese basketball
- 2018–19 in Hong Kong basketball
- 2018–19 in Indonesian basketball
- 2018–19 in Malaysian basketball
- 2018–19 in Philippine basketball leagues
- 2018–19 in Singaporean basketball
- 2018–19 in Taiwanese basketball
- 2018–19 in Thai basketball
- 2018–19 in Vietnamese basketball