2018 NAPB season

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2018 NAPB season
League NAPB
Sport Basketball
DurationDecember 31, 2017 – April 28, 2018
Draft
Top draft pick Vance Cooksey
Picked by Vancouver Knights
Regular season
Top seed Yakima SunKings
Season MVP Edwin Ubiles (Albany)
Playoffs
Finals championsYakima SunKings
  Runners-upAlbany Patroons
Finals MVP Renaldo Major
NAPB seasons

The 2018 NAPB season was the inaugural season for the North American Premier Basketball. For 2018, the league consists of eight teams: the Albany Patroons, Kansas City Tornados, Kentucky Thoroughbreds, Nevada Desert Dogs, Ohio Cardinals, Rochester Razorsharks, Vancouver Knights, and Yakima SunKings.

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The Ohio Cardinals were replaced after 23 games by the Ohio Bootleggers, a semi-professional team in the North American Basketball League that also apparently had taken over operations of the Vancouver Knights sometime during the season. The Knights also had become a travel team at that point and was transferred to a new ownership group that was never identified. [1]

The season ended with the SunKings defeating the Patroons two-games-to-none in the best-of-three finals to win the inaugural NAPB championship. [2]

Standings

Final standings: [3]

TeamWL PCT GB
Yakima SunKings 248.7420
Albany Patroons 1910.6553.5
Ohio Cardinals/Bootleggers [lower-alpha 1] 1711.6075.0
Kansas City Tornados 1515.5008.0
Nevada Desert Dogs 1415.4838.5
Kentucky Thoroughbreds 1419.42410.5
Rochester Razorsharks 1118.37911.5
Vancouver Knights725.21917.0
  1. ↑ The Cardinals earned a 12–11 record prior to the ownership transfer and is counted towards the Bootleggers' record in the NAPB standings.

Season award winners

AwardWinnerTeam
Most Valuable Player Edwin Ubiles Albany Patroons
Rookie of the Year Xavier Moon Albany Patroons
Defensive Player of the Year Renaldo Major Yakima SunKings
Person of the Year Jelan Kendrick Nevada Desert Dogs
New Comer of the Year Charlton Jones Kansas City Tornados
6 Man of the Year A.J Gaines Nevada Desert Dogs
Coach of the Year Paul Woolpert Yakima SunKings

Source: [4]

Playoffs

There were eight teams in the league with the top four teams seeded one to four for the playoffs. Each round of the playoffs were played a best-of-three series. [5]

Semifinals
(Best-of-3) 		Finals
(Best-of-3)
      
1Yakima SunKings2
4 Kansas City Tornados 1
1Yakima SunKings2
2 Albany Patroons 0
2Albany Patroons2
3 Ohio Bootleggers 1

Draft

The inaugural player draft for the league was held on December 3, 2017, [6] and the league's eight charter teams took turns selecting players who had all competed at the college level in the United States at some point.

Vance Cooksey of Youngstown State University was the first overall NAPB selection taken by Vancouver Knights. [6] Consequently, this makes him the first-ever selection in the history of the league.

Although some of the players chosen in the draft had played semi-professional or professional basketball after college graduation, only the United States colleges they attended are listed.

Pos.GFC
Position GuardForwardCenter
RoundPickPlayerPositionNationalityTeamCollegeYear graduated
11 Vance Cooksey F/CFlag of the United States.svg  United States Vancouver Knights Youngstown State 2011
12 Jackson Trapp GFlag of the United States.svg  United States Yakima Sun Kings Florida Atlantic University 2016
13 Glennroy Carr FFlag of the United States.svg  United States Rochester RazorSharks Buffalo State University 2011
14 Luke Cochran FFlag of the United States.svg  United States Nevada Desert Dogs Sonoma State University 2017
15 Chris Langoria GFlag of the United States.svg  United States Kansas City Tornados Valdosta State University 2016
16 Iman Johnson FFlag of the United States.svg  United States Kentucky Thoroughbreds Samford University 2016
17 Tony Anderson GFlag of the United States.svg  United States Ohio Cardinals Southeast Missouri State 2016
18 Steven Cunningham GFlag of the United States.svg  United States Albany Patroons Troy University 2012
29 Alonzo Murphy FFlag of the United States.svg  United States Vancouver Knights Lincoln University 2015
210 Devonte Luckett FFlag of the United States.svg  United States Yakima Sun Kings Yakima Valley Community College 2016
211Isaiah ThomasGFlag of the United States.svg  United States Rochester RazorSharks Southeastern Illinois College 2016
212 Anthony Strickland FFlag of the United States.svg  United States Nevada Desert Dogs South Suburban College 2017
213 Jordan Stotts FFlag of the United States.svg  United States Kansas City Tornados University of Sioux Falls 2016
214 Bright Mensah GFlag of the United States.svg  United States Kentucky Thoroughbreds William Paterson University 2016
215 Eddie Hayden GFlag of the United States.svg  United States Ohio Cardinals West Virginia Tech 2012
216 Anthony Estes GFlag of the United States.svg  United States Albany Patroons North Carolina A&T 2015

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References

  1. ↑ "Bootleggers to Join the NAPB". NAPB. March 27, 2018. Archived from the original on March 28, 2018.
  2. ↑ "North American Premier Basketball Facebook". Facebook. Retrieved May 13, 2018.
  3. ↑ "NAPB standings". North American Premier Basketball. Archived from the original on December 22, 2017. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
  4. ↑ "North American Premier Basketball Facebook". Facebook. Retrieved May 2, 2018.
  5. ↑ "Playoff Time: Yakima, Albany the Two Top Seeds". NAPB. April 28, 2018. Archived from the original on April 29, 2018. Retrieved April 28, 2018.
  6. 1 2 "NAPB Draft". NAPB.com. December 3, 2017. Archived from the original on December 23, 2017. Retrieved December 22, 2017.
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