The 2014 NBL season was the 33rd season of the
National Basketball League. The
Canterbury Rams
The Canterbury Rams are a New Zealand basketball team based in Christchurch. The Rams compete in the National Basketball League (NBL) and play their home games at Cowles Stadium. For sponsorship reasons, they are known as The Wheeler Motor Can ...
returned to the league in 2014 after a five-year hiatus.
The 2014 pre-season tournament was held at the
Te Rauparaha Arena
Te Rauparaha Arena is a multi-purpose indoor sports and entertainment centre, with pools, dash swim school, a fitness centre and indoor sports stadium and venues, in Porirua, New Zealand. The centre, which cost NZ$17.5 million to construct, was of ...
in
Porirua
Porirua, ( mi, Pari-ā-Rua) a city in the Wellington Region of the North Island of New Zealand, is one of the four cities that constitute the Wellington metropolitan area. The name 'Porirua' is a corruption of 'Pari-rua', meaning "the tide swe ...
on Saturday 22 March and Sunday 23 March. The
Manawatu Jets were the only team to go undefeated over the two days, finishing with a 4–0 record.
In 2014, the NBL Final Four made a triumphant return to
Wellington
Wellington ( mi, Te Whanganui-a-Tara or ) is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the second-largest city in New Zealand by me ...
. The Final Four weekend was held at
TSB Bank Arena
The TSB Bank Arena (formerly known as the Queens Wharf Events Centre) is an indoor arena in Wellington.
About
The arena hosts mainly basketball games and is the home arena for the Century City Saints and part-time home arena of the New Zealand ...
, with the semifinals on Friday 4 July, followed by the championship game on Saturday 5 July.
Team information
Summary
Regular season standings
Final Four
Awards
Player of the Week
Rookie of the Week
Statistics leaders
''Stats as of the end of the regular season''
Regular season
* Most Valuable Player:
Corey Webster
Corey Jonas Webster (born March 2, 1982) is a former American football cornerback who played for the New York Giants. He was drafted by the Giants in the second round of the 2005 NFL Draft and later won two Super Bowls with the team, both ove ...
(Wellington Saints)
* NZ Most Valuable Player:
Corey Webster
Corey Jonas Webster (born March 2, 1982) is a former American football cornerback who played for the New York Giants. He was drafted by the Giants in the second round of the 2005 NFL Draft and later won two Super Bowls with the team, both ove ...
(Wellington Saints)
* Most Outstanding Guard:
Corey Webster
Corey Jonas Webster (born March 2, 1982) is a former American football cornerback who played for the New York Giants. He was drafted by the Giants in the second round of the 2005 NFL Draft and later won two Super Bowls with the team, both ove ...
(Wellington Saints)
* Most Outstanding NZ Guard:
Corey Webster
Corey Jonas Webster (born March 2, 1982) is a former American football cornerback who played for the New York Giants. He was drafted by the Giants in the second round of the 2005 NFL Draft and later won two Super Bowls with the team, both ove ...
(Wellington Saints)
* Most Outstanding Forward:
Suleiman Braimoh
Suleiman Okhaifoede Braimoh Jr. (born October 19, 1989) is a Nigerian-American professional basketball player for Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C., Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League and the Euroleague. He played college basketball fo ...
(Taranaki Mountainairs)
* Most Outstanding NZ Forward/Centre:
Duane Bailey (Super City Rangers)
* Scoring Champion:
Jason Cadee
Jason Robert Cadee (born 15 April 1991) is an Australian professional basketball player for the Brisbane Bullets of the National Basketball League (NBL). He is also the team captain for the Bullets.
Early life and career
Cadee was born and rai ...
(Super City Rangers)
* Rebounding Champion:
Nick Horvath (Manawatu Jets)
* Assist Champion:
Mark Dickel
Mark Robert Dickel (born 21 December 1976) is a New Zealand-Australian former professional basketball player and coach.
Early years
Dickel attended Logan Park High School in Dunedin, New Zealand. In 1993, he joined the Otago Nuggets of the New ...
(Otago Nuggets)
* Rookie of the Year:
Richie Edwards
Richie Edwards (born 25 September 1974) is an English musician. He is the former bassist of the British hard rock band The Darkness and the guitarist/vocalist of their successor band Stone Gods. He was confirmed as a member on 13 June 2005 ...
(Canterbury Rams)
* Coach of the Year:
Tab Baldwin
Thomas Anthony "Tab" Baldwin (born 16 May 1958) is an American-New Zealand basketball coach who currently serves as the head of the Gilas Pilipinas Youth national basketball program and head coach for the Ateneo Blue Eagles of the University A ...
(Hawke's Bay Hawks)
* All-Star Five:
** G:
Jason Cadee
Jason Robert Cadee (born 15 April 1991) is an Australian professional basketball player for the Brisbane Bullets of the National Basketball League (NBL). He is also the team captain for the Bullets.
Early life and career
Cadee was born and rai ...
(Super City Rangers)
** G:
Corey Webster
Corey Jonas Webster (born March 2, 1982) is a former American football cornerback who played for the New York Giants. He was drafted by the Giants in the second round of the 2005 NFL Draft and later won two Super Bowls with the team, both ove ...
(Wellington Saints)
** F: Dustin Scott (Hawke's Bay Hawks)
** F:
Suleiman Braimoh
Suleiman Okhaifoede Braimoh Jr. (born October 19, 1989) is a Nigerian-American professional basketball player for Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C., Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League and the Euroleague. He played college basketball fo ...
(Taranaki Mountainairs)
** C:
Jamal Boykin (Nelson Giants)
Final Four
* Final Four MVP:
Lindsay Tait
Lindsay Michael Tait (born 8 January 1982) is a New Zealand former professional basketball player.
Early life
Born in Sydney, New South Wales, Tait moved to Auckland as a four-year-old and later attended Avondale College where he was a member of ...
(Wellington Saints)
It's eight for Saints in victory over Bay Hawks
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References
External links
Basketball New Zealand 2014 Annual Report
Basketball New Zealand 2014 Results Annual
2014 Draw
2014 Team By Team NBL Preview
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National Basketball League (New Zealand) seasons
NBL