The 1970 Úrvalsdeild karla was the 19th season of the top tier men's basketball league on

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, then known as 1. deild karla. The season started on January 4, 1970 and ended on March 21, 1970. ÍR won their tenth title by beating Ármann 2-0 in the playoffs finals for championship. KR finished in third place after beating KFR, two games to none, in a best-of-three series.

Þórir Magnússon Þórir Magnússon (born 13 February 1948) is an Icelandic former basketball player and the former member of the Icelandic national basketball team. Nicknamed "Rocket Man", he was known as a high scoring guard and led the Icelandic Basketball L ...

led all players in scoring during the regular season, scoring 292 points in 10 games, or 29.2 points per game.

Competition format

The participating teams played each other twice for a total of 10 games. The top four teams would then enter a playoffs for the championship. ÍR won a coin toss with KR for the first seed.

Regular season

Playoffs

Extra game

KFR and

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ended tied in 4-5th place with 6 points and therefore played an extra game to decide which team would go to the playoffs.

Bracket

Semifinals

Third place

Final

Notable occurrences

*On March 7, it was reported that KR had added former Indonesian national team player David Janis to the team. *On March 11, it was reported that KR had added Icelandic national team player Hjörtur Hansson to the team. He had previously been playing with Lugi in the Swedish Division II.

References

External links

Official Icelandic Basketball Federation website
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