2013–14 Korisliiga Season
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The 2013–14 Korisliiga season was the 74th season of the Finnish national championship named
Korisliiga The Korisliiga is the top-tier professional basketball league in Finland, comprising the top 12 teams of the country. In its current format, each team plays all other teams two times in the regular season, once at home and once away, for a total o ...
, the highest professional
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league in
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. The defending champion was
Bisons Loimaa LoKoKo Bisons Loimaa is a Finnish professional basketball club that is based in Loimaa. History The club was established in 1964 as Loimaan Korikonkarit. The team was renamed Bisons after it was promoted to the Korisliiga in 2011. The team won t ...
.
Kyle Fogg Kyle Fogg (born January 27, 1990) is an American professional basketball player for the Liaoning Flying Leopards of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). He played college basketball for the Arizona Wildcats. Professional career After going ...
was both scoring champion and league MVP, while
Antero Lehto Antero Lehto (born 2 April 1984) is a Finnish basketball player. 185 cm tall point guard Lehto plays for Pallacanestro Varese of the Lega Basket Serie A. Alongside Finnish competitions, Lehto has represented Pyrintö in EuroChallenge and Bal ...
was named Player of the Year.Lehto, Williams ja Poikola Korisliigan kauden parhaat
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took the title, its third in history.


Regular season


Playoffs


Awards

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Most Valuable Player In team sports, a most valuable player award, abbreviated 'MVP award', is an honor typically bestowed upon an individual (or individuals, in the instance of a tie) whose individual performance is the greatest in an entire league, for a particu ...
: **Domestic Player:
Antero Lehto Antero Lehto (born 2 April 1984) is a Finnish basketball player. 185 cm tall point guard Lehto plays for Pallacanestro Varese of the Lega Basket Serie A. Alongside Finnish competitions, Lehto has represented Pyrintö in EuroChallenge and Bal ...
**Foreign Player:
Kyle Fogg Kyle Fogg (born January 27, 1990) is an American professional basketball player for the Liaoning Flying Leopards of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). He played college basketball for the Arizona Wildcats. Professional career After going ...
*Finals MVP: Damon Williams *Defensive Player:
Tuukka Kotti Tuukka Kotti (born 18 March 1981) is a Finnish professional basketball player for the Helsinki Seagulls. Kotti attended Providence College in the United States, where he played college basketball between 2001 and 2005. He left Finland as a poi ...
* Rookie of the Year:
Anton Odabasi Ozan Anton Odabasi (born 8 August 1995) is a Finnish-Turkish professional basketball player for Galatasaray S.K. (men's basketball), Galatasaray of the Turkish Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL) and the EuroCup Basketball, EuroCup. Odabasi grew up with ...
* Most Improved Player:
Antero Lehto Antero Lehto (born 2 April 1984) is a Finnish basketball player. 185 cm tall point guard Lehto plays for Pallacanestro Varese of the Lega Basket Serie A. Alongside Finnish competitions, Lehto has represented Pyrintö in EuroChallenge and Bal ...
* Sixth Man of the Year: Ville Mäkäläinen * Coach of the Year: Pieti Poikola * Referee of the Year: Petri Mäntylä Sources:


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References

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