2019–20 ABL season

This article is about the basketball competition. For the baseball competition, see 2019–20 Australian Baseball League season.
2019–20 ABL season
LeagueASEAN Basketball League
SportBasketball
Duration16 November 2019 – 13 March 2020 (regular season; originally until 28 March 2020)
Number of teams10
TV partner(s)Hong Kong Cable TV
Brunei Malaysia Astro Arena
Philippines S+A
Singapore Singtel
Thailand Mono 29
Taiwan Eleven Sports Network
Vietnam FPT
YouTube (non-participating nations)
Regular season
Top seedNone (cancelled)
ABL Finals
ChampionsNot awarded (cancelled)
Seasons

The 2019–20 ABL season was the tenth season of competition in the ASEAN Basketball League. The regular season started on 16 November 2019 and was set to end on 28 March 2020.[1]

On 15 July 2020, the league announced the cancellation of the season due to the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. No league title was awarded.[2][3]

Teams

Listed are the following team changes that happened before the start of the season:

  1. Taipei Fubon Braves becomes the 2nd team in the ABL from Taiwan.[4]
  2. CLS Knights Indonesia as the defending champion officially announced that they will not be competing in this season.[5]
  3. The Wolf Warriors relocated from Zhuhai to Macau; they still retained the Wolf Warriors name.[6]
  4. Westports Malaysia Dragons was renamed into the Kuala Lumpur Dragons.

Venues

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Locations of ABL teams.
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Locations of ABL teams in the Pearl River Delta.
2019–20 ABL season is located in Metro Manila
San Juan
San Juan
Pasay
Pasay
Caloocan
Caloocan
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Locations of ABL arenas in Metro Manila.
Team City / Region Arena Capacity
Chinese Taipei Formosa Dreamers Changhua, Changhua County Changhua Stadium 8,000
Hong Kong Hong Kong Eastern Wan Chai, Hong Kong Southorn Stadium 2,000
Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Dragons Kuala Lumpur MABA Stadium 2,500
Macau Macau Black Bears Macau Venetian Macau Hall D
Thailand Mono Vampire Bangkok Metropolitan Region Stadium 29, Nonthaburi 5,000
Vietnam Saigon Heat Ho Chi Minh City Canadian International School Vietnam Arena 2,500
Philippines Alab Pilipinas Santa Rosa, Laguna City of Santa Rosa Multi-Purpose Complex 5,700
Metro Manila Cuneta Astrodome, Pasay 12,000
Filoil Flying V Centre, San Juan 5,500
Caloocan Sports Complex, Caloocan 3,000
Lapu-Lapu City Hoops Dome 6,000
Antipolo, Rizal Ynares Center 7,400
Davao City University of Southeastern Philippines Gymnasium 7,000
Singapore Singapore Slingers Singapore, Kallang OCBC Arena 3,000
Chinese Taipei Taipei Fubon Braves Taipei City Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium 7,000
Macau Wolf Warriors Macau Foshan Shishan Gymnasium
Zhongshan Shaxi Gymnasium

Personnel

Team Head coach
Chinese Taipei Formosa Dreamers Canada Kyle Julius[7]
Hong Kong Hong Kong Eastern United States Jordan Brady[8]
Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Dragons Australia Jamie Pearlman[9]
Macau Macau Black Bears Canada Charles Hantoumakos[10]
Thailand Mono Vampire Slovenia Andrej Urlep[11]
Vietnam Saigon Heat United States Kevin Yurkus[12]
Philippines Alab Pilipinas Philippines Jimmy Alapag[13]
Singapore Singapore Slingers Singapore Neo Beng Siang
Chinese Taipei Taipei Fubon Braves Chinese Taipei Xu Jin-zhe
Macau Wolf Warriors United States Todd Purves [14]


Imports

Club Import 1 Import 2 Import 3 Former Imports
Chinese Taipei Formosa Dreamers United States Jerran Young[15] United States Anthony Tucker[16][17] United States Ryan Watkins[18][19] United States Marcus Keene[20]
Canada Liam McMorrow[21]
United States Jordan Tolbert[22]
Hong Kong Hong Kong Eastern United States Brandis Raley-Ross[23] United States Michael Holyfield[24] United States Brandon Costner[25] United States Timothy Jerrell Price[26]
United States Trey Kell[27]
Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Dragons United States Amir Bell[28] United States William Artino[29] United States Cade Davis[30]
Macau Macau Black Bears United States Kenneth Manigault[31] United States Jasonn Hannibal[32] Philippines Mikh McKinney[33] United States Brandon Edwards[34]
Thailand Mono Vampire United States Mike Singletary[35] United States Preston Knowles[36] United States Michael Morrison[37] United States Anthony Tucker[38]
United States Ryan Watkins[39]
Vietnam Saigon Heat United States Sam Thompson[40] United States Malcolm White[41] United StatesTyshawn Taylor[42] Panama Gary Forbes[43]
United States Chris Charles[44]
United States Torian Graham[45]
United States Mike Bell[46]
EnglandMorakinyo Michael Williams[47][48]
United StatesJamaica Akeem Scott[49]
Philippines Alab Pilipinas United States Justin Brownlee[50] United States Nick King[51] United States John Fields[52] Puerto Rico Renaldo Balkman[53]
Jamaica Adrian Forbes[54]
United States Khalif Wyatt[55]
United States Prince Williams[56]
Italy Sam Deguara[57]
Singapore Singapore Slingers United States Xavier Alexander[58] United States Marcus Elliott[59] United States Jameel McKay[60] United States Anthony McClain[61]
Chinese Taipei Taipei Fubon Braves United States O. J. Mayo[62] Belize Charles Garcia[63] United States Maxie Esho[64][65] Canada Sim Bhullar
Macau Wolf Warriors United States Julian Boyd[66] United States Steven Thomas[67] United States Doug Herring Jr.[68] United States Mike Bell

Local Heritage

Macau Wolf Warriors Vietnam Saigon Heat Philippines Alab Pilipinas Macau Macau Black Bears Thailand Mono Vampire
United States Hong Kong Scott Ewing
China Cai Chen
China Cris Shentu
China He Feng Sun
China Zhi-Keng Tang
China Zhong Xianchao
China Hu Yue
China He Zhang 		United States Chris Dierker
United States Tam Dinh
Netherlands Vincent Nguyen
Canada Michael Soy
United States Khoa Tran
Denmark Tim Waale
United States Justin Young 		United States Jason Brickman
United States Lawrence Domingo
United States Jeremiah Gray
Australia Jordan Heading
United States Brandon Rosser 		Canada Hong Kong Jenning Leung
Canada China Yunlei Warren Liang
China He Jun Jian
China Liu Zihao 		United States Freddie Goldstein
United States Tyler Lamb
United States Moses Morgan
Hong Kong Eastern Chinese Taipei Formosa Dreamers Chinese Taipei Taipei Fubon Braves Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Dragons Singapore Singapore Slingers
Philippines Nigeria Joseph Eriobu
France Chinese Taipei Steven Guinchard
Pakistan Sheikh Muhammad Sulaiman 		United States Kenneth Chien United States Joseph Lin Bulgaria Simeon Lepichev

Regular season

Each team will play 26 games throughout the season, 13 at home and 13 away. Each team will play the remaining 4 teams in their group, twice each at home and away. Each team will also play the 5 teams from the other group, once each at home and away. The groupings are as follows:

  • Bears, Warriors, Eastern, Dreamers, Braves
  • Alab, Slingers, Dragons, Vampire, Heat

After the league season was suspended due to COVID-19 pandemic, group leaders, Mono Vampire decided to withdraw from the league.[69]

Standings

Pos Team W L PCT GB
1 Thailand Mono Vampire 12 4 .750 —
2 Philippines Alab Pilipinas 10 6 .625 2
3 Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Dragons 10 7 .588 2.5
4 Chinese Taipei Formosa Dreamers 8 6 .571 3
5 Chinese Taipei Taipei Fubon Braves 9 8 .529 3.5
6 Macau Macau Black Bears 7 7 .500 4
7 Singapore Singapore Slingers 7 10 .412 5.5
8 Macau Wolf Warriors 5 8 .385 5.5
9 Hong Kong Eastern 3 7 .300 6
10 Vietnam Saigon Heat 3 11 .214 8
Source: ABL

Results

Home \ Away FMD HKE WMD MBB MNV SGH SAP SGS FBB MWW FMD HKE WMD MBB MNV SGH SAP SGS FBB MWW
Dreamers — 85–79 85–91 89–80 99–100 88–77 81–90 — 100–94 88–80
Eastern — 82–78 79–93 84–75 76–77 67–73 —
Dragons 80–79 — 72–79 91–63 87–88* — 70–67
Black Bears 97–80 97–87 — 101–96 95–83 85–100 91–94 — 95–97
Vampire 95–90 98–75 79–73 — 95–87 111–76 87–77 90–86* 94–91* — 92–100*
Heat 65–95 68–80 64–90 — 64–85 —
Alab 96–73 82–75 — 90–83 101–96 93–98 89–102 99–79 — 86–77*
Slingers 68–79 96–95 65–67 73–79 85–64 — 106–99* 76–72 68–77 101–67 92–80 —
Brave 83–76 102–89 90–91 95–91 98–97 83–77 — 78–105 106–93 —
Wolf Warriors 89–92 108–102 83–90 100–117 95–103 110–114* 88–83 — 89–100 89–104 —
Source: ASEANBasketballLeague.com
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.
Matches with lighter background shading were decided after overtime.

Awards

End-of-season awards

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