2020–21 NBL season

2020–21 NBL season
League	National Basketball League
Season	2020–21
Teams	9
Games played	162 (regular season); TBD (semi-finals); TBD (Grand Final)
Dates	15 January 2021–TBA
TV	Australia: SBS Viceland; ESPN; New Zealand: Sky Sport; Online: SBS On Demand; NBL TV; Twitch;
Statistical leaders
Records
Biggest home win	16 points; Phoenix 98–82 Hawks ; (7 February 2021)
Biggest away win	24 points; 36ers 65–89 United; (15 January 2021)
Highest scoring	224 points; 36ers 116–108 Phoenix; (17 January 2021)
Winning streak	5 games; Melbourne United; (15 January 2020 – present)
Losing streak	6 games; Cairns Taipans; (18 January 2020 – present)
Highest attendance	7,317 – Adelaide Entertainment Centre; 36ers vs Kings; (6 March 2021)
Lowest attendance	1,591 – Nissan Arena; Bullets vs Hawks; (21 January 2021)
Total attendance	84,315
Average attendance	3,833
	All statistics correct as of 6 February 2021.

The 2020–21 NBL season is the 43rd season of the National Basketball League since its establishment in 1979. A total of nine teams will contest in the 2020–21 season.

Australian broadcast rights to the season are held by SBS Viceland in the second year of a two-year deal. All games will be available live and free on streaming platforms such as SBS On Demand. ESPN will also broadcast select games including all games after 7.30pm AEDT.[1] In New Zealand, Sky Sport are the official league broadcaster.[2] The NBL will also continue broadcasting matches online on Twitch in the second year of a two-year deal.[3]

Teams

Nine teams will compete in the 2020–21 season, with the Tasmania JackJumpers set to enter the league for the 2021–22 season.[4]

During the off-season the Illawarra Hawks were renamed to The Hawks after the new ownership group announced they wanted to expand out from Illawarra and into the wider region.[5]

Stadiums and locations

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Adelaide 36ers	Adelaide	Adelaide Entertainment Centre	11,300
Brisbane Bullets	Brisbane	Nissan Arena	5,000
Cairns Taipans	Cairns	Cairns Convention Centre	5,300
Cairns Taipans	Cairns	Cairns Pop-Up Arena	2,000
Melbourne United	Melbourne	John Cain Arena	10,500
Melbourne United	Melbourne	Bendigo Stadium	4,000
New Zealand Breakers	Auckland	Spark Arena	9,300
Perth Wildcats	Perth	RAC Arena	14,800
South East Melbourne Phoenix	Melbourne	John Cain Arena	10,500
South East Melbourne Phoenix	Melbourne	State Basketball Centre	3,200
Sydney Kings	Sydney	Qudos Bank Arena	18,200
The Hawks	Wollongong	WIN Entertainment Centre	6,000

Personnel and sponsorship

Team	Coach	Captain	Main sponsor	Kit manufacturer
Adelaide 36ers	Conner Henry	Daniel Dillon Daniel Johnson Brendan Teys	Scouts Australia	Champion
Brisbane Bullets	Andrej Lemanis	Jason Cadee	St. Genevieve
Cairns Taipans	Mike Kelly	Scott Machado	CQUniversity
Melbourne United	Dean Vickerman	Chris Goulding	SodaStream
New Zealand Breakers	Dan Shamir	Thomas Abercrombie	Sky Sport
Perth Wildcats	Trevor Gleeson	Jesse Wagstaff	Pentanet
South East Melbourne Phoenix	Simon Mitchell	Kyle Adnam Mitch Creek Adam Gibson	Mountain Goat Beer
Sydney Kings	Adam Forde	Daniel Kickert	Brydens Lawyers
The Hawks	Brian Goorjian	Andrew Ogilvy	Pepper Money

Player transactions

Free agency negotiations were delayed until 15 July 2020, after the NBL and the Australian Basketball Players' Association postponed the original start date of 30 March 2020 due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.[6][7] On 17 April 2020, the NBL, the Australian Basketball Players' Association and the nine clubs reached an agreement in response to the financial pressure caused by the pandemic, which reduced the salaries of players signed for the 2020–21 season, lowered the full-time roster positions from 11 to 10 players (plus a Next Star slot) and from three import slots to two import slots.[8]

Coaching transactions

Team	Role	2019–20 season	2020–21 season
Adelaide 36ers	Head Coach	Joey Wright	Conner Henry
	Assistant	Kevin Brooks	Jamie Pearlman
	Assistant	Darren Golley	TBA
	Assistant	Andrew Jantke	TBA
The Hawks	Head Coach	Matt Flinn	Brian Goorjian
	Assistant	Ben Bagoly	Jacob Jackomas
	Assistant	Eric Cooks	TBA
	Assistant	Tyson Demos	TBA
Melbourne United	Assistant	Rhys Carter	TBA
Melbourne United	Assistant	Ross McMains	TBA
New Zealand Breakers	Assistant	Zico Coronel	Chanel Pompallier
New Zealand Breakers	Assistant	N/A	Jacob Mooallem
SEM Phoenix	Assistant	Ian Stacker	TBA
Sydney Kings	Head Coach	Will Weaver	Adam Forde
Sydney Kings	Assistant	Adam Forde	Kevin Lisch

Pre-season

The pre-season games will start on 13 November 2020.[9]

Ladder

2020-21 NBL pre-season ladder

Ladder

Information

Pos.	Name	Pld.	W.	L.	Last 5	Streak	Home	Away	For	Against	Pts %	Win %
1	Melbourne United	1	1	0	1-0	W1	0-0	1-0	97	81	119.75%	100.00%
2	Sydney Kings	1	1	0	1-0	W1	1-0	0-0	98	89	110.11%	100.00%
3	Adelaide 36ers	3	2	1	2-1	L1	2-0	0-1	276	225	122.67%	66.67%
4	Perth Wildcats (RC)	2	1	1	1-1	L1	1-1	0-0	165	165	100.00%	50.00%
5	Cairns Taipans	2	1	1	1-1	W1	1-1	0-0	177	185	95.68%	50.00%
6	Brisbane Bullets	4	2	2	2-2	W2	2-0	0-2	347	378	91.80%	50.00%
7	The Hawks	3	1	2	1-2	L1	0-0	1-2	254	263	96.58%	33.33%
8	SEM Phoenix	2	0	2	0-2	L2	0-0	0-2	198	210	94.29%	0.00%
	NZ Breakers	0	0	0	0-0		0-0	0-0	0	0	0.00%	0.00%

Total Rounds
5 weeks

Total Games
11 games

Legend

(RC) Reigning Champion

Updated: 9 January 2021

Regular season

The regular season which was due to begin in early October, is set to start in mid-January after it was delayed twice due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[10]

Ladder

2020-21 NBL ladder

Ladder

Information

Pos.	Name	Pld.	W.	L.	Last 5	Streak	Home	Away	For	Against	Pts %	Win %
1	Melbourne United	5	5	0	5-0	W5	2-0	3-0	456	407	112.04%	100.00%
2	The Hawks	5	4	1	4-1	L1	0-0	4-1	443	410	108.05%	80.00%
3	Adelaide 36ers	7	4	3	3-2	L1	4-3	0-0	606	629	96.34%	57.14%
4	SEM Phoenix	6	3	3	3-2	W1	1-0	2-3	551	553	99.64%	50.00%
5	Sydney Kings	5	2	3	2-3	W1	0-0	2-3	446	428	104.21%	40.00%
6	Brisbane Bullets	5	2	3	2-3	L1	2-3	0-0	457	479	95.41%	40.00%
7	Perth Wildcats (RC)	3	1	2	1-2	L2	1-1	0-1	248	241	102.90%	33.33%
8	NZ Breakers	3	1	2	1-2	W1	0-0	1-2	254	261	97.32%	33.33%
9	Cairns Taipans	7	1	6	0-5	L6	1-5	0-1	591	644	91.77%	14.29%

Current Round
Round 4
Total Rounds
TBD
Games per Team
36
Total Games
162

Legend

(RC) Reigning Champion

Ladder
Updated: 7 February 2021

Ladder progression

Numbers highlighted in green indicate that the team finished the round inside the top four.
Numbers highlighted in blue indicates the team finished first on the ladder in that round.
Numbers highlighted in red indicates the team finished last place on the ladder in that round.

Team	1	2	3	4
Adelaide 36ers	3	5	3	3
Brisbane Bullets	6	9	5	6
Cairns Taipans	4	7	8	9
Melbourne United	1	1	2	1
New Zealand Breakers	–	8	9	7
Perth Wildcats	–	2	4	8
South East Melbourne Phoenix	7	6	6	4
Sydney Kings	5	4	7	5
The Hawks	2	3	1	2

NBL Cup

The 2020–21 season sees the introduction of the NBL Cup, a tournament based in Melbourne set to start on 20 February 2021.[11]

Ladder

2021 NBL Cup ladder

Ladder

Information

Name	Last 5	Pts %	Win %
Adelaide 36ers	0-0	0.00%	0.00%
Brisbane Bullets	0-0	0.00%	0.00%
Cairns Taipans	0-0	0.00%	0.00%
The Hawks	0-0	0.00%	0.00%
Melbourne United	0-0	0.00%	0.00%
NZ Breakers	0-0	0.00%	0.00%
Perth Wildcats	0-0	0.00%	0.00%
SEM Phoenix	0-0	0.00%	0.00%
Sydney Kings	0-0	0.00%	0.00%

Total Rounds
4
Games per Team
8
Total Games
36

Updated: N/A

==Awards==

Player of the Week

Rounds	Player	Team
Round 1	Justin Simon	The Hawks
Round 2	Isaac Humphries	Adelaide 36ers
Round 3	Vic Law	Brisbane Bullets
Round 3	Nathan Sobey	Brisbane Bullets

References

Mark, David (31 July 2019). "National Basketball League now on SBS and ESPN after Nine opts out of its broadcast deal". ABC. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
"NBL and Breakers Team Up with SKY Sport". National Basketball League. 5 June 2019. Retrieved 7 July 2019.
Ward, Roy (11 October 2019). "NBL strikes 'revolutionary' live stream deal with Twitch". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
"Tasmania will get its first NBL team since 1996". ABC News. 28 February 2020.
Fernandez, Timothy (17 June 2020). "Illawarra Hawks are no more as NBL locks in new owners". www.abc.net.au. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
"2020/21 Hungry Jack's NBL Season to Tip Off in December | NBL". nbl.com.au.
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[1] Mark, David (31 July 2019). "National Basketball League now on SBS and ESPN after Nine opts out of its broadcast deal". ABC. Retrieved 23 October 2019.

[2] "NBL and Breakers Team Up with SKY Sport". National Basketball League. 5 June 2019. Retrieved 7 July 2019.

[3] Ward, Roy (11 October 2019). "NBL strikes 'revolutionary' live stream deal with Twitch". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 22 October 2019.

[4] "Tasmania will get its first NBL team since 1996". ABC News. 28 February 2020.

[5] Fernandez, Timothy (17 June 2020). "Illawarra Hawks are no more as NBL locks in new owners". www.abc.net.au. Retrieved 18 July 2020.

[3_dec_tipoff-6] "2020/21 Hungry Jack's NBL Season to Tip Off in December | NBL". nbl.com.au.

[7] "NBL Free Agency | NBL". nbl.com.au.

[8] "NBL, ABPA and Clubs Reach Agreement for 2020/21 Season | NBL". nbl.com.au.

[9] "Hungry Jack's NBL Preseason Games". NBL.com.au. 29 October 2020. Retrieved 29 October 2020.

[10] "Hungry Jack's NBL to Tip Off in Early 2021". NBL.com.au. 14 September 2020. Retrieved 14 September 2020.

[11] Hope, Shayne (21 December 2020). "NBL Cup a slam dunk for Melbourne hub". 7NEWS.com.au. Retrieved 21 December 2020.