The 2024–25 NBL season will be the 47th season of the
National Basketball League since its establishment in 1979. A total of ten teams contested in the 2024–25 season.
The league extended its partnership with
ESPN Australia
ESPN Australia is the Australian division of ESPN, part of the ESPN International grouping. It is offered in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands.
Initially, ESPN was known as Sports ESPN on the Optus Vision cable t ...
. All games are available live on
ESPN
ESPN (originally an initialism for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by ESPN Inc., owned jointly by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%). The ...
,
Kayo Sports and
Fetch TV
Fetch TV is an Australian IPTV provider that delivers a subscription television service over a user's regular internet service. Fetch TV launched in 2010 backed by its Malaysian parent Astro Malaysia Holdings. On 2 August 2022, Telstra acquire ...
.
Network 10 will broadcast the marquee 2:30pm Sunday game on Network 10’s main channel and
10 Play. In New Zealand,
Sky Sport will continue as the official league broadcaster.
Teams
All ten teams from the 2023–24 NBL season continued on in 2024–25.
Stadiums and locations
Personnel and sponsorship
Player transactions
Free agency began on 15 April 2024.
Coaching transactions
Pre-season
The
pre-season
In an organized sports league, a typical season is the portion of one year in which regulated games of the sport are in session: for example, in Major League Baseball the season lasts approximately from the last week of March to the last week of Se ...
games will begin on 7 September to 10 October 2024.
The pre-season also featured the
New Zealand Breakers to play games between
NBA
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America. The league is composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada) and is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United St ...
teams, this will be the sixth
NBLxNBA tour.
NBL Blitz
The 2024 NBL Blitz will run from 7 to 14 September with games being played at the
Carrara Indoor Stadium and the
Gold Coast Sports and Leisure Centre
Gold Coast Sports and Leisure Centre is a multi-purpose arena and sports facility located at Carrara on Queensland's Gold Coast in Australia, capable of seating 5,000 fans. The centre is located adjacent to the Carrara Indoor Stadium and forms p ...
.
Gold Coast
Gold Coast may refer to:
Places Africa
* Gold Coast (region), in West Africa, which was made up of the following colonies, before being established as the independent nation of Ghana:
** Portuguese Gold Coast (Portuguese, 1482–1642)
** Dutch G ...
,
Queensland
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will host the tournament for a second consecutive year.
Regular season
The regular season will begin on 19 September 2024. It will consist of 145 games spread across 20 rounds, with the final game being played on 8 February 2025.
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
Round 4
Round 5
Round 6
Round 7
Round 8
Round 9
Round 10
Round 11
Round 12
Round 13
Round 14
Round 15
Round 16
Round 17
Round 18
Round 19
Round 20
Ladder
The NBL tie-breaker system as outlined in the NBL Rules and Regulations states that in the case of an identical win–loss record, the overall points percentage will determine order of seeding.
Ladder progression
Finals
The 2025 NBL Finals will be played in March 2025 consisting of three play-in games, two best-of-three semifinal series and the best-of-five
Grand Final
Primarily in Australian sports, a grand final (sometimes colloquially abbreviated to "grannie") is a game that decides a sports league's premiership (or championship) winning team, i.e. the conclusive game of a finals (or play-off) series. Sy ...
Series. In the semifinals, the higher seed hosts the first and third games. In the Grand Final, the higher seed hosts the first, third and fifth games.
The top two seeds in the regular season will automatically qualify to the semifinals. Teams ranked three to six will compete in the play-in tournament. The third seed will play the fourth seed for third spot and the loser will play the winner of fifth or sixth for the fourth seed.
Awards
Pre-season
* Loggins-Bruton Cup:
* Most Valuable Player (
Ray Borner Medal):
Regular season
Awards Night
* Most Valuable Player (
Andrew Gaze Trophy):
* Next Generation Award:
* Best Defensive Player (
Damian Martin Trophy):
* Best Sixth Man:
* Most Improved Player:
* Fans MVP:
* Coach of the Year (
Lindsay Gaze Trophy):
* Executive of the Year:
* Referee of the Year:
* GameTime by Kmart:
* All-NBL First Team:
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* All-NBL Second Team:
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Post season
* Grand Final Series MVP (
Larry Sengstock Medal):
* NBL Champions:
References
External links
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