2019 New Zealand NBL season

2019 New Zealand NBL season
LeagueNew Zealand NBL
SportBasketball
Duration11 April – 21 July
Number of games18
Number of teams9
Regular season
  Minor premiersWellington Saints
Season MVPNick Kay (Wellington Saints)
Top scorerTim Quarterman (Super City Rangers)
Final Four
ChampionsWellington Saints
  Runners-upHawke's Bay Hawks
Grand Final MVPThomas Abercrombie
New Zealand NBL seasons

The 2019 NBL season was the 38th season of the National Basketball League. The competition increased to nine teams in 2019 with the Southern Huskies joining the league for the first time, marking the first time ever that an Australian team has joined a New Zealand competition.[1]

The regular season commenced on Thursday 11 April in Palmerston North with the Manawatu Jets hosting the Super City Rangers at Arena Manawatu.[2] The season contained 14 weeks of regular season games followed by a Final Four weekend in July. The Saints won their 11th NBL championship in 2019 behind their second 20–0 campaign in three seasons.

  1. ^ "AUSTRALIA'S SOUTHERN HUSKIES SIGNED TO JOIN SAL'S NBL IN 2019". nznbl.basketball. 5 December 2018. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
  2. ^ "SAL'S NBL SCHEDULE RELEASED". nznbl.basketball. 22 February 2019. Archived from the original on 22 September 2020. Retrieved 20 March 2019.