2018 NAPB season

The 2018 NAPB season was the inaugural season for the North American Premier Basketball. For 2018, the league consists of eight teams: the Albany Patroons, Kansas City Tornados, Kentucky Thoroughbreds, Nevada Desert Dogs, Ohio Cardinals, Rochester Razorsharks, Vancouver Knights, and Yakima SunKings.

2018 NAPB season
LeagueNAPB
SportBasketball
DurationDecember 31, 2017 – April 28, 2018
Draft
Top draft pickVance Cooksey
Picked byVancouver Knights
Regular season
Top seedYakima SunKings
Season MVPEdwin Ubiles (Albany)
Playoffs
Finals championsYakima SunKings
  Runners-upAlbany Patroons
Finals MVPRenaldo Major

The Ohio Cardinals were replaced after 23 games by the Ohio Bootleggers, a semi-professional team in the North American Basketball League that also apparently had took over operations of the Vancouver Knights sometime during the season. The Knights also had become a travel team at that point and was transferred to a new ownership group that was never identified.[1]

The season ended with the SunKings defeating the Patroons two-games-to-none in the best-of-three finals to win the inaugural NAPB championship.[2]

Standings

Final standings:[3]

Team W L PCT GB
Yakima SunKings248.7420
Albany Patroons1910.6553.5
Ohio Cardinals/Bootleggers[lower-alpha 1]1711.6075.0
Kansas City Tornados1515.5008.0
Nevada Desert Dogs1415.4838.5
Kentucky Thoroughbreds1419.42410.5
Rochester Razorsharks1118.37911.5
Vancouver Knights725.21917.0
  1. The Cardinals earned a 12–11 record prior to the ownership transfer and is counted towards the Bootleggers' record in the NAPB standings.

Season award winners
Award Winner Team
Most Valuable Player Edwin Ubiles Albany Patroons
Rookie of the Year Xavier Moon Albany Patroons
Defensive Player of the Year Renaldo Major Yakima SunKings
Person of the Year Jelan Kendrick Nevada Desert Dogs
New Comer of the Year Charlton Jones Kansas City Tornados
6 Man of the Year A.J Gaines Nevada Desert Dogs
Coach of the Year Paul Woolpert Yakima SunKings

Source:[4]

Playoffs

There were eight teams in the league with the top four teams seeded one to four for the playoffs. Each round of the playoffs were played a best-of-three series.[5]

Semifinals
(Best-of-3) 		Finals
(Best-of-3)
      
1 Yakima SunKings 2
4 Kansas City Tornados 1
1 Yakima SunKings 2
2 Albany Patroons 0
2 Albany Patroons 2
3 Ohio Bootleggers 1

Draft

The inaugural player draft for the league was held on December 3, 2017,[6] and the league's eight charter teams took turns selecting players who had all competed at the college level in the United States at some point.

Vance Cooksey of Youngstown State University was the first overall NAPB selection taken by Vancouver Knights.[6] Consequently, this makes him the first-ever selection in the history of the league.

Although some of the players chosen in the draft had played semi-professional or professional basketball after college graduation, only the United States colleges they attended are listed.

Pos.GFC
PositionGuardForwardCenter
Round Pick Player Position Nationality Team College Year graduated
1 1 Vance Cooksey F/C  United States Vancouver Knights Youngstown State 2011
1 2 Jackson Trapp G  United States Yakima Sun Kings Florida Atlantic University 2016
1 3 Glennroy Carr F  United States Rochester RazorSharks Buffalo State University 2011
1 4 Luke Cochran F  United States Nevada Desert Dogs Sonoma State University 2017
1 5 Chris Langoria G  United States Kansas City Tornados Valdosta State University 2016
1 6 Iman Johnson F  United States Kentucky Thoroughbreds Samford University 2016
1 7 Tony Anderson G  United States Ohio Cardinals Southeast Missouri State 2016
1 8 Steven Cunningham G  United States Albany Patroons Troy University 2012
2 9 Alonzo Murphy F  United States Vancouver Knights Lincoln University 2015
2 10 Devonte Luckett F  United States Yakima Sun Kings Yakima Valley Community College 2016
2 11 Isaiah Thomas G  United States Rochester RazorSharks Southeastern Illinois College 2016
2 12 Anthony Strickland F  United States Nevada Desert Dogs South Suburban College 2017
2 13 Jordan Stotts F  United States Kansas City Tornados University of Sioux Falls 2016
2 14 Bright Mensah G  United States Kentucky Thoroughbreds William Paterson University 2016
2 15 Eddie Hayden G  United States Ohio Cardinals West Virginia Tech 2012
2 16 Anthony Estes G  United States Albany Patroons North Carolina A&T 2015

References
  1. "Bootleggers to Join the NAPB". NAPB. March 27, 2018. Archived from the original on March 28, 2018.
  2. "North American Premier Basketball Facebook". Facebook. Retrieved May 13, 2018.
  3. "NAPB standings". North American Premier Basketball. Archived from the original on December 22, 2017. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
  4. "North American Premier Basketball Facebook". Facebook. Retrieved May 2, 2018.
  5. "Playoff Time: Yakima, Albany the Two Top Seeds". NAPB. April 28, 2018. Archived from the original on April 29, 2018. Retrieved April 28, 2018.
  6. "NAPB Draft". NAPB.com. December 3, 2017. Archived from the original on December 23, 2017. Retrieved December 22, 2017.
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