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2019–20 ABL season

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This article is about the basketball competition. For the baseball competition, see 2019–20 Australian Baseball League season.

The 2019–20 ABL season was the tenth season of competition of the ASEAN Basketball League. The regular season started on 16 November 2019 and was set to end on 28 March 2020.[1]

2019–20 ABL season
LeagueASEAN Basketball League
SportBasketball
Duration16 November 2019 – 13 March 2020 (regular season; originally until 28 March 2020)
Number of teams10
TV partner(s)Hong Kong Cable TV
Brunei Malaysia Astro Arena
Philippines S+A
Singapore Singtel
Thailand Mono 29
Taiwan Eleven Sports Network
Vietnam FPT
YouTube (non-participating nations)
Regular season
Top seedNone (cancelled)
ABL Finals
ChampionsNot awarded (cancelled)
Seasons

On 15 July 2020, the league announced the cancellation of the season due to the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. No league title was awarded.[2][3]

Teams edit

Listed are the following team changes that happened before the start of the season:

  1. Taipei Fubon Braves becomes the 2nd team in the ABL from Taiwan.[4]
  2. CLS Knights Indonesia as the defending champion officially announced that they will not be competing in this season.[5]
  3. The Wolf Warriors relocated from Zhuhai to Macau; they still retained the Wolf Warriors name.[6]
  4. Westports Malaysia Dragons was renamed into the Kuala Lumpur Dragons.

Venues edit

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Pearl River Delta
 
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Locations of ABL teams.
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Locations of ABL teams in the Pearl River Delta.
 
 
San Juan
 
Pasay
 
Caloocan
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Locations of ABL arenas in Metro Manila.
Team City / Region Arena Capacity
  Formosa Dreamers Changhua, Changhua County Changhua Stadium 8,000
  Hong Kong Eastern Wan Chai, Hong Kong Southorn Stadium 2,000
  Kuala Lumpur Dragons Kuala Lumpur MABA Stadium 2,500
  Macau Black Bears Macau Venetian Macau Hall D
  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 Cuneta Astrodome, Pasay 12,000
Filoil Flying V Centre, San Juan 5,500
Caloocan Sports Complex, Caloocan 3,000
Lapu-Lapu City Hoops Dome 6,000
Antipolo, Rizal Ynares Center 7,400
Davao City University of Southeastern Philippines Gymnasium 7,000
  Singapore Slingers Singapore, Kallang OCBC Arena 3,000
  Taipei Fubon Braves Taipei City Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium 7,000
  Wolf Warriors Macau Foshan Shishan Gymnasium
Zhongshan Shaxi Gymnasium

Personnel edit

Team Head coach
  Formosa Dreamers   Kyle Julius[7]
  Hong Kong Eastern   Jordan Brady[8]
  Kuala Lumpur Dragons   Jamie Pearlman[9]
  Macau Black Bears   Charles Hantoumakos[10]
  Mono Vampire   Andrej Urlep[11]
  Saigon Heat   Kevin Yurkus[12]
  Alab Pilipinas   Jimmy Alapag[13]
  Singapore Slingers   Neo Beng Siang
  Taipei Fubon Braves   Xu Jin-zhe
  Wolf Warriors   Todd Purves [14]


Imports edit

Club Import 1 Import 2 Import 3 Former Imports
  Formosa Dreamers   Jerran Young[15]   Anthony Tucker[16][17]   Ryan Watkins[18][19]   Marcus Keene[20]
  Liam McMorrow[21]
  Jordan Tolbert[22]
  Hong Kong Eastern   Brandis Raley-Ross[23]   Michael Holyfield[24]   Brandon Costner[25]   Timothy Jerrell Price[26]
  Trey Kell[27]
  Kuala Lumpur Dragons   Amir Bell[28]   William Artino[29]   Cade Davis[30]
  Macau Black Bears   Kenneth Manigault[31]   Jasonn Hannibal[32]   Mikh McKinney[33]   Brandon Edwards[34]
  Mono Vampire   Mike Singletary[35]   Preston Knowles[36]   Michael Morrison[37]   Anthony Tucker[38]
  Ryan Watkins[39]
  Saigon Heat   Sam Thompson[40]   Malcolm White[41]  Tyshawn Taylor[42]   Gary Forbes[43]
  Chris Charles[44]
  Torian Graham[45]
  Mike Bell[46]
 Morakinyo Michael Williams[47][48]
   Akeem Scott[49]
  Alab Pilipinas   Justin Brownlee[50]   Nick King[51]   John Fields[52]   Renaldo Balkman[53]
  Adrian Forbes[54]
  Khalif Wyatt[55]
  Prince Williams[56]
  Sam Deguara[57]
  Singapore Slingers   Xavier Alexander[58]   Marcus Elliott[59]   Jameel McKay[60]   Anthony McClain[61]
  Taipei Fubon Braves   O. J. Mayo[62]   Charles Garcia[63]   Maxie Esho[64][65]   Sim Bhullar
  Wolf Warriors   Julian Boyd[66]   Steven Thomas[67]   Doug Herring Jr.[68]   Mike Bell

Local Heritage edit

  Wolf Warriors   Saigon Heat   Alab Pilipinas   Macau Black Bears   Mono Vampire
    Scott Ewing
  Cai Chen
  Cris Shentu
  He Feng Sun
  Zhi-Keng Tang
  Zhong Xianchao
  Hu Yue
  He Zhang 		  Chris Dierker
  Tam Dinh
  Vincent Nguyen
  Michael Soy
  Khoa Tran
  Tim Waale
  Justin Young 		  Jason Brickman
  Lawrence Domingo
  Jeremiah Gray
  Jordan Heading
  Brandon Rosser 		    Jenning Leung
    Yunlei Warren Liang
  He Jun Jian
  Liu Zihao 		  Freddie Goldstein
  Tyler Lamb
  Moses Morgan
  Eastern   Formosa Dreamers   Taipei Fubon Braves   Kuala Lumpur Dragons   Singapore Slingers
    Joseph Eriobu
    Steven Guinchard
  Sheikh Muhammad Sulaiman 		  Kenneth Chien   Joseph Lin   Simeon Lepichev

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, Braves
  • Alab, Slingers, Dragons, Vampire, Heat

After the league season was suspended due to COVID-19 pandemic, group leaders, Mono Vampire decided to withdraw from the league.[69]

Standings edit

Pos Team W L PCT GB
1   Mono Vampire 12 4 .750 —
2   Alab Pilipinas 10 6 .625 2
3   Kuala Lumpur Dragons 10 7 .588 2.5
4   Formosa Dreamers 8 6 .571 3
5   Taipei Fubon Braves 9 8 .529 3.5
6   Macau Black Bears 7 7 .500 4
7   Singapore Slingers 7 10 .412 5.5
8   Wolf Warriors 5 8 .385 5.5
9   Eastern 3 7 .300 6
10   Saigon Heat 3 11 .214 8
Source: ABL

Results edit

Home \ Away FMD HKE WMD MBB MNV SGH SAP SGS FBB MWW FMD HKE WMD MBB MNV SGH SAP SGS FBB MWW
Dreamers — 85–79 85–91 89–80 99–100 88–77 81–90 — 100–94 88–80
Eastern — 82–78 79–93 85–75 76–77 67–73 —
Dragons 80–79 — 72–79 91–63 87–88* — 70–67
Black Bears 97–80 97–87 — 101–96 95–83 85–100 91–94 — 95–97
Vampire 95–90 98–75 79–73 — 95–87 111–76 87–77 90–86* 94–91* — 92–100*
Heat 65–95 68–80 64–90 — 64–85 —
Alab 96–73 82–75 — 90–83 101–96 93–98 89–102 99–79 — 86–77*
Slingers 68–79 96–95 65–67 73–79 85–64 — 106–99* 76–72 68–77 101–67 92–80 —
Brave 83–76 102–89 90–91 95–91 98–97 83–77 — 78–105 106–93 —
Wolf Warriors 89–92 108–102 83–90 100–117 95–103 110–114* 88–83 — 89–100 89–104 —
Source: ASEANBasketballLeague.com
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.
Matches with lighter background shading were decided after overtime.

Awards edit

End-of-season awards edit

References edit

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  2. ^ "Asean Basketball League season cancelled without a winner". The New Paper. 2020-07-15. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  3. ^ Dalupang, Denison Rey (14 March 2020). "PBA: Teams can't hold practices, scrimmages". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
  4. ^ "Taiwan's Fubon Braves Announce Entry into the ABL".
  5. ^ "The CLS Knights Indonesia Are Out of the ABL".
  6. ^ "Wolf Warriors". asean basketball league. Archived from the original on 2020-04-10. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
  7. ^ "Former Heat Coach Julius Signed by the Formosa Dreamers".
  8. ^ "Hong Kong Eastern Tab Jordan Brady as Head Coach for Upcoming ABL Campaign".
  9. ^ "Jamie Pearlman Signs on as Westports Malaysia Dragons' Head Coach". Archived from the original on 2018-10-14. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
  10. ^ "Charles Hantoumakos 'Prepped' for Macau Black Bears Debut".
  11. ^ "Mono Vampire Hires Slovenian Head Coach for Upcoming ABL Campaign".
  12. ^ "Saigon Heat Brings in Kevin Yurkus as New Head Coach".
  13. ^ "Alapag raring to make up for lost Alab season with Brickman, Gray". 10 October 2019.
  14. ^ "Zhuhai Wolf Warriors look to rise in ABL under former SMB consultant Todd Purves".
  15. ^ "Jerran Young Moves to Join the Formosa Dreamers".
  16. ^ "Anthony Tucker Makes ABL Return with Formosa Dreamers".
  17. ^ "Tucker leaves for US after Convid disrupt schedule". Facebook.
  18. ^ "Ryan Watkins joins Tuckers in Taiwan". Facebook.
  19. ^ "Tucker leaves for US after Convid disrupt schedule". Facebook.
  20. ^ "Marcus Keene to Make ABL Return with the Formosa Dreamers".
  21. ^ "Liam McMorrow the new big man".
  22. ^ "Formosa Dreamers Sign Big Man Jordan Tolbert".
  23. ^ "Hong Kong Eastern Long Lions land Brandis Raley-Ross, ex Mornar Bar".
  24. ^ "Mike Holyfield Rejoins Hong Kong Eastern for the ABL".
  25. ^ "Hong Kong Eastern Taps Veteran Forward to Replace TJ Price".
  26. ^ "TJ Price added to the squad". Archived from the original on 2019-10-03. Retrieved 2019-09-26.
  27. ^ "Hong Kong Eastern Ink Import Guard Trey Kell Ahead of 2019-20 ABL Season".
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  29. ^ "Will Artino Set to Reinforce the Westports Malaysia Dragons in the ABL".
  30. ^ "Cade Davis join the Dragon". Facebook.
  31. ^ "Macau Taps New World Import, Kenneth Manigault, for the Upcoming ABL Season".
  32. ^ "Macau Black Bears have signed Jasonn Hannibal as replacement for an injured Brandon Edwards". Facebook.
  33. ^ "Mikh McKinney Back for Third Season with Macau Black Bears".
  34. ^ "Macau Black Bears Enlist Second World Import for Upcoming ABL Season".
  35. ^ "Mike Singletary Returns to Mono Vampire with Unfinished Business".
  36. ^ "Mono Vampire To Part Ways With Former MVP Anthony Tucker".
  37. ^ "Mike Morrison (ex Peristeri GS) signs at Mono Vampire".
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  47. ^ "WELCOME TO SAIGON HEAT, MORAKINYO WILLIAMS". Facebook.
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  49. ^ "WELCOME THE RETURN OF "AKEEM SCOTT"". Facebook.
  50. ^ "Justin Brownlee replaces Prince Williams".
  51. ^ "Nick King to Join Alab Pilipinas in the ABL".
  52. ^ "John Fields is ready to show his power, dominance and consistency". Facebook.
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  58. ^ "ABL Runners-Up Slingers Bring Back Alexander".
  59. ^ "Singapore Slingers Add Marcus Elliot to ABL Roster".
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  65. ^ "THANK YOU MAXIE". Facebook.
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  68. ^ "Doug Herring Jr. added to Warriors". Archived from the original on 2019-10-03. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
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External links edit

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