2003 New Zealand NBL season

2003 New Zealand NBL season
League National Basketball League
Sport Basketball
Duration 23 April – 16 August
Number of games 18
Number of teams 10
Regular season
Minor premiers Waikato Titans
Season MVP David Cooper (Manawatu Jets)
Top scorer John Whorton (Canterbury Rams)
Finals
Champions Wellington Saints
  Runners-up Waikato Titans

The 2003 New Zealand National Basketball League season was the 22nd running of the competition. New Zealand basketball legends, Pero Cameron and Phill Jones, dominated through the 1990s, with one or the other steering their teams to a championship every year from 1994 to 2002.[1] That string ended in 2003 with the Wellington Saints' championship win over the Waikato Titans, as the Saints claimed their fifth league title.[2]

2003 marked the first year a league-wide MVP award winner was named, allowing imports the opportunity to be recognised; in all previous seasons, only a Kiwi MVP was named, an award given to the best New Zealand player. Australian import David Cooper of the Manawatu Jets was subsequently awarded the first league MVP. 2003 also marked the return of a Taranaki side to the NBL, with the team having pulled out of the league in 2000 due to a lack of funding. After winning the 2002 Conference Basketball League championship, the Taranaki Stormers re-entered the NBL as the Mountainairs.

Standings

# Regular Season Standings
Team W L PCT PTS
1 Waikato Titans 16 2 89 32
2 Wellington Saints 12 6 67 24
3 Manawatu Jets 12 6 67 24
4 Auckland Stars 12 6 67 24
5 Nelson Giants 11 7 61 22
6 Hawke's Bay Hawks 8 10 44 16
7 Otago Nuggets 7 11 39 14
8 Taranaki Mountainairs 5 13 28 10
9 Canterbury Rams 4 14 22 8
10 Harbour Heat 3 15 17 6

Finals

Semi-finals Grand Final
      
1 Waikato Titans 98
4 Auckland Stars 77
  Waikato Titans 88
Wellington Saints 97
2 Wellington Saints 89
3 Manawatu Jets 70

Awards

Player of the Week

Round Player Team Ref
1 Issiah Epps Otago Nuggets [3]
2 Dillon Boucher Waikato Titans [3]
Mike Pegues Canterbury Rams [3]
3 Issiah Epps Otago Nuggets [3]
4 Dillon Boucher Waikato Titans [3]
5 Ed Book Nelson Giants [3]
Dillon Boucher Waikato Titans [3]
6 Lindsay Tait Auckland Stars [3]
7 John Whorton Canterbury Rams [3]
8 John Whorton Canterbury Rams [3]
9 David Cooper Manawatu Jets [3][4]
10 Paul Henare Hawke's Bay Hawks [3][5]
11 Casey Frank Auckland Stars [3][6]
12 Willie Banks Taranaki Mountainairs [3][7]
13 John Whorton Canterbury Rams [3][8]
14 Mark Dickel Otago Nuggets [3]
15 Michael Tompson Wellington Saints [3][9]
SF Iona Enosa Waikato Titans [3]
GF Ben Knight Wellington Saints [3][10]

Statistics leaders

Stats as of the end of the regular season[11]

Category Player Team Stat
Points per game John Whorton Canterbury Rams 29.3
Rebounds per game John Whorton Canterbury Rams 16.5
Assists per game George Le'afa Wellington Saints 6.2
Steals per game Dillon Boucher Waikato Titans 4.5
Blocks per game David Cooper Manawatu Jets 2.8

Regular season

References

  1. ↑ Long live the Kingpin
  2. ↑ "2003 National Basketball League". Basketball.org.nz. Archived from the original on 14 January 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 "Players of the Week". Basketball.org.nz. Archived from the original on 24 August 2006.
  4. ↑ Player Of The Week IX
  5. ↑ Player Of The Week X
  6. ↑ Player Of The Week XI
  7. ↑ Player Of The Week XII
  8. ↑ Player Of The Week XIII
  9. ↑ Player Of The Week XV
  10. ↑ Player Of The Week (Final)
  11. ↑ "2003 Burger King League – League Leaders". Basketball.org.nz. Archived from the original on 19 November 2004.

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