Basketball Bundesliga 2016/17

Basketball Bundesliga 2016/17
Duration		September 23, 2016 - June 11, 2017
Order of execution		51st season
organizer		BBL GmbH
Number of teams		18th
Main round
Main round first		ratiopharm ulm
Main rounds - MVP		Raymar Morgan ( ratiopharm ulm )
Top scorer		Raymar Morgan ( ratiopharm ulm )
Best defender		Daniel Theis ( Brose Bamberg )
Best young German player		İsmet Akpınar ( Alba Berlin )
Coach of the season		Thorsten Leibenath ( ratiopharm ulm )
Play-offs
German champions		Brose Bamberg
Runner-up		EWE Baskets Oldenburg
Finals - MVP		Fabien Causeur ( Brose Bamberg )
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ProA 2016/17 ↓

The Basketball Bundesliga season 2016/17 (officially easyCredit Basketball Bundesliga ) was the 51st season of the top German division in men's basketball . The regular season started on September 23, 2016 and ended on May 1, 2017 with the 34th and final matchday. The play-off final round of the best eight teams for the German championship, played in the best-of-five mode, lasted until June 11, 2017.

Changes to the preseason

• As a result of the changes in the European competition calendar, where the Euroleague 2016/17 was expanded into a full round- robin tournament of 16 teams and the 2016/17 Basketball Champions League was newly introduced, the start of the season was brought forward by a week into September and the event of the BBL Champions Cups waived.
• After the sponsorship contract with the league's previous name sponsor had expired, BBL GmbH presented a new and better-funded sponsorship contract with Teambank AG and its easyCredit brand for five years. A blogger , not entirely unknown in the scene , preceded the official presentation with a previously reported DNS query.
• For the third time in a row, both athletic climbers from the second-highest division ProA received a license for the first Bundesliga, so that Science City Jena , most recently in the BBL 2007/08 , and SC Rasta Vechta , most recently in the BBL 2013/14 , two Clubs returned to the top division that had exactly one season of experience in the BBL in their history. Both had “paid the hard way” in their first season at that time and had come in last in the table.
• After there was no withdrawal and no license revocation of an existing first division member club and therefore no wild cards were given, the two worst-placed teams had to relegate to the ProA 2016/17 again . In addition to the Central German BC after four years of uninterrupted membership, this time the Crailsheim Merlins also had to relegate, who were bottom twice in a row.
• The two Franconian clubs Brose Baskets and s.Oliver Baskets changed their company name and deleted the basket from their name in favor of a local reference, so that from this season they started as Brose Bamberg and s.Oliver Würzburg .
• After all Bundesliga games have been presented live and on-demand by Telekom Basketball on a streaming portal for two years now, the previously rather irregular live broadcast on free TV is to be broadcast on Friday evening at 7 p.m. on Sport1 be strengthened again. This slot tends to compete with the Euroleague, whose games are played on Thursday and Friday evenings.

International competitions

In the course of the past season and during the summer break, the dispute escalated between such clubs in the Euroleague, which are the owners of the operating company of the Euroleague in Euroleague Commercial Assets SA , and the continental umbrella organization FIBA Europe of the national European associations, largely supported by in the Switzerland-based world association FIBA , which tried to enforce its new competition calendar. After the license agreement for the Euroleague was terminated by its operating company, FIBA ​​Europa initiated a new basketball champions league club competition, with the help of the Bundesliga operating organization BBL GmbH, among others, to displace the EuroCup, which is now viewed as a "wild league", through various sanctions tried. Unlike other national European associations, the DBB tolerated the participation of the first division in all European competitions. After reducing the number of participants in the Euroleague, in which only one German team took part with the German champions for the first time in five years, and in the Eurocup, German teams take part in European competitions as follows:

competition	German participants
EuroLeague 2016/17	Brose Bamberg
EuroCup 2016/17	ratiopharm Ulm , Bayern Munich , Alba Berlin
Champions League 2016/17	Fraport Skyliners , EWE Baskets Oldenburg , MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg
FIBA Europe Cup 2016/17	Telekom Baskets Bonn

Another result of the dispute was that the Intercontinental Cup last played between the winner of the FIBA Liga de las Américas and the Euroleague was now played between the winners of the recognized FIBA ​​competitions. As the title winners of the FIBA Europe Cup 2015/16 , the Fraport Skyliners were the first German club team to take part in the competition, which has been held sporadically in different modes for 50 years.

Teams

Brose Bamberg medi bayreuth Alba Berlin Telekom Baskets Bonn Löwen Braunschweig Polar bears Bremerhaven Fraport Skyliners Casting 46ers BG Göttingen Phoenix Hagen Science City Jena MHP giant Ludwigsburg FC Bayern Munich EWE Baskets Oldenburg Walter Tigers Tubingen ratiopharm ulm SC Rasta Vechta s.Oliver Würzburg

Teams of the Basketball Bundesliga 2016/17

team	city	Hall	Places
Brose Bamberg	Bamberg	Brose Arena	06,800
medi bayreuth	Bayreuth	Upper Franconia Hall	03,300
Alba Berlin	Berlin	Mercedes-Benz Arena	14,500
Telekom Baskets Bonn	Bonn	Telekom Dome	06,000
Löwen Braunschweig	Braunschweig	Volkswagen hall	06,100
Polar bears Bremerhaven	Bremerhaven	Bremerhaven City Hall	04,050
Fraport Skyliners	Frankfurt a. M.	Fraport Arena	05,002
Casting 46ers	to water	Gießen-Ost sports hall	04,003
BG Göttingen	Goettingen	Sparkassen-Arena	03,450
Phoenix Hagen	Hagen	Enervie Arena	03,402
Science City Jena	Jena	Sparkassen-Arena	03,000
MHP giant Ludwigsburg	Ludwigsburg	MHPArena	05,300
FC Bayern Munich	Munich	Audi Dome	06,700
EWE Baskets Oldenburg	Oldenburg	EWE Arena	06,000
Walter Tigers Tubingen	Tübingen	Paul Horn Arena	03.132
ratiopharm ulm	Ulm	Ratiopharm Arena	06,100
SC Rasta Vechta	Vechta	Rasta Dome	03,140
s.Oliver Würzburg	Wurzburg	s.Oliver Arena	03,140

table

	= Playoff places (places 1 to 8)
	= Relegation places (places 17 and 18)

• In the event of a tie, the direct comparison decided
• Final score
• in brackets: M = champions of the previous season / P = cup winners of the previous season / A = promoters for this season

# team Victories Defeats Points baskets 1 ratiopharm ulm 30th 2 60: 4 2819: 2433 2 Brose Bamberg (M) 29 3 58: 6 2677: 2209 3 FC Bayern Munich 28 4th 56: 8 2767: 2223 4th medi bayreuth 22nd 10 44:20 2676: 2530 5 EWE Baskets Oldenburg 18th 14th 36:28 2573: 2479 6th Alba Berlin (P) 18th 14th 36:28 2610: 2590 7th Telekom Baskets Bonn 18th 14th 36:28 2641: 2629 8th MHP giant Ludwigsburg 17th 15th 34:30 2482: 2447 9 Casting 46ers 15th 17th 30:34 2454: 2507 10 Fraport Skyliners 14th 18th 28:36 2307: 2377 11 BG Göttingen 14th 18th 28:36 2479: 2609 12 Polar bears Bremerhaven 12 20th 24:40 2647: 2816 13 Science City Jena (A) 11 21st 22:42 2415: 2654 14th s.Oliver Würzburg 11 21st 22:42 2502: 2636 15th Walter Tigers Tubingen 7th 25th 14:50 2397: 2635 16 Löwen Braunschweig 6th 26th 12:52 2398: 2708 17th SC Rasta Vechta (A) 2 30th 4:60 2351: 2704 18th Phoenix Hagen 0 0 0: 0 1 0-0

¹On November 30, 2016, Phoenix Hagen was withdrawn from the BBL. All games played by Hagen until then were canceled.

Play-offs 2016/17

	Quarter finals					Semifinals					final
	1	ratiopharm ulm	3
	8th	MHP giant Ludwigsburg	2
						1	ratiopharm ulm	2
						5	EWE Baskets Oldenburg	3
	4th	medi bayreuth	1
	5	EWE Baskets Oldenburg	3
											5	EWE Baskets Oldenburg	0
											2	Brose Bamberg	3
	2	Brose Bamberg	3
	7th	Telekom Baskets Bonn	1
						2	Brose Bamberg	3
						3	FC Bayern Munich	0
	3	FC Bayern Munich	3
	6th	Alba Berlin	1

Honors 2016/17

Award	Surname	society
All-Star Game MVP	Philipp Schwethelm	EWE Baskets Oldenburg
Player of the year	Raymar Morgan	ratiopharm ulm
Best offensive player	Raymar Morgan	ratiopharm ulm
Best defender	Daniel Theis	Brose Bamberg
Best young German player (U22)	İsmet Akpınar	Alba Berlin
Coach of the year	Thorsten Leibenath	ratiopharm ulm
Most effective player nationally	Maximilian Kleber	FC Bayern Munich
Most effective player internationally	Raymar Morgan	ratiopharm ulm
Most Likeable Player	Rickey Paulding	EWE Baskets Oldenburg
Finals MVP	Fabien Causeur	Brose Bamberg

Source:

All-BBL teams

All-BBL First Team :

• G Chris Kramer (EWE Baskets Oldenburg)
• G Chris Babb (Ratiopharm Ulm)
• F Darius Miller (Brose Bamberg)
• F Nicolò Melli (Brose Bamberg)
• C Raymar Morgan (Ratiopharm Ulm)

All-BBL Second Team :

• G Josh Mayo (Telekom Baskets Bonn)
• G Trey Lewis (Medi Bayreuth)
• F Rickey Paulding (EWE Baskets Oldenburg)
• F Maximilian Kleber (FC Bayern Munich)
• C Brian Qvale (EWE Baskets Oldenburg)

Web links

• easyCredit Basketball Bundesliga - Website of the Basketball Bundesliga
• Telekom Basketball - homepage of the streaming portal Telekom Basketball

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The easyCredit Basketball Bundesliga schedule for the 2016/17 season. (PDF (989 kB)) Basketball Bundesliga , accessed on August 17, 2016 (complete schedule for the main round; as of August 15, 2016). 
2. ↑ BBL terminated: Kracher at the beginning. Sport.de, June 16, 2016, accessed on August 27, 2016 . 
3. ↑ easyCredit is the new namesake of the Basketball Bundesliga BBL. ISPO , July 21, 2016, accessed on August 27, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Würzburg also changes the club name. Spox.com , July 15, 2016, accessed August 27, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Duel of Champions LIVE to kick off. Sport1 , August 16, 2016, accessed August 27, 2016 . 
6. ↑ dpa : International basketball before the ultimate test. Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 23, 2016, accessed on August 27, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Manuel Baraniak: European patchwork quilt. Basketball.de, July 5, 2016, accessed on August 28, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Current easycredit-BBL table , on easycredit-bbl.de.
9. ↑ Awards & awards in the history of the Bundesliga. In: easycredit-bbl.de. Retrieved June 11, 2017 .