Basketball Bundesliga 2014/15

Basketball Bundesliga 2014/15
Duration		October 2, 2014 - June 21, 2015
Order of execution		49th season
organizer		BBL GmbH
Number of teams		18th
Main round
Main round first		Brose Baskets
Main rounds - MVP		Jamel McLean ( Alba Berlin )
Top scorer		DJ Kennedy ( MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg )
Best defender		Cliff Hammonds ( Alba Berlin )
Best young German player		Johannes Voigtmann ( Fraport Skyliners )
Coach of the season		Saša Obradović ( Alba Berlin )
Play-offs
German champions		Brose Baskets
Runner-up		FC Bayern Munich
Finals - MVP		Brad Wanamaker ( Brose Baskets )
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The 2014/15 Basketball Bundesliga season (officially Beko Basketball Bundesliga ) was the 49th season of the top German division in men's basketball . The regular season started on October 2, 2014 and ended on April 30, 2015 with the 34th and final game day. The play-offs ended with the fifth final game on June 21, 2015.

The German champions became the Brose Baskets from Bamberg , who beat last year's champions FC Bayern Munich 3-2 in the final series . For Bamberg it was the seventh championship win.

Teams

Artland Dragons Brose Baskets medi bayreuth Alba Berlin Telekom Baskets Bonn Basketball Löwen Braunschweig Polar bears Bremerhaven Crailsheim Merlins Fraport Skyliners BG Göttingen Phoenix Hagen MHP giant Ludwigsburg FC Bayern Munich EWE Baskets Oldenburg TBB Trier Walter Tigers Tubingen ratiopharm ulm Central German BC

Teams of the Basketball Bundesliga 2014/15

team	city	Hall	Places
Brose Baskets	Bamberg	Brose Arena	06,800
medi bayreuth	Bayreuth	Upper Franconia Hall	04,000
Alba Berlin (P)	Berlin	O 2 World Berlin	14,500
Telekom Baskets Bonn	Bonn	Telekom Dome	06,000
Basketball Löwen Braunschweig	Braunschweig	Volkswagen Hall Braunschweig	06,100
Polar bears Bremerhaven	Bremerhaven	Bremerhaven City Hall	04,050
Crailsheim Merlins	Crailsheim	Arena Hohenlohe	03,000
Fraport Skyliners	Frankfurt	Fraport Arena	05,002
BG Göttingen	Goettingen	Sparkassen-Arena	03,450
Phoenix Hagen	Hagen	Enervie Arena	03,402
MHP giant Ludwigsburg	Ludwigsburg	MHPArena	05,300
FC Bayern Munich (M)	Munich	Audi Dome	06,700
EWE Baskets Oldenburg	Oldenburg	EWE Arena	06,000
Artland Dragons	Quakenbrück	Artland Arena	03,000
TBB Trier	trier	Arena Trier	05,900
Walter Tigers Tubingen	Tübingen	Paul Horn Arena	03.132
ratiopharm ulm	Ulm	Ratiopharm Arena	06,000
Central German BC	Weissenfels	Weißenfels town hall	03,000

Closing table

	= Playoff places (places 1 to 8)
	= Relegation places (places 17 and 18 and special case Artland Dragons)

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 Brose Baskets 29 5 58:10 2872: 2389 2 Alba Berlin (P) 28 6th 56:12 2875: 2496 3 FC Bayern Munich (M) 26th 8th 52:16 3043: 2555 4th Telekom Baskets Bonn 23 11 46:22 2856: 2738 5 ratiopharm ulm 21st 13 42:26 2839: 2846 6th Fraport Skyliners 20th 14th 40:28 2635: 2565 7th EWE Baskets Oldenburg 19th 15th 38:30 2748: 2681 8th MHP giant Ludwigsburg 17th 17th 34:34 2727: 2676 9 Basketball Löwen Braunschweig 17th 17th 34:34 2619: 2653 10 BG Göttingen (A) 16 18th 32:36 2745: 2832 11 Artland Dragons 1 15th 19th 30:38 2744: 2773 12 Central German BC 14th 20th 28:40 2558: 2686 13 Phoenix Hagen 11 23 22:46 2701: 2857 14th Walter Tigers Tubingen 11 23 22:46 2729: 2928 15th Polar bears Bremerhaven 10 24 20:48 2622: 2810 16 medi bayreuth 10 24 20:48 2532: 2734 17th TBB Trier 2 8th 23 16:46 2445: 2703 18th Crailsheim Merlins (A) 8th 26th 16:52 2568: 2947

¹ The Artland Dragons stopped professional gaming at the end of the season and did not apply for a license for the 2015/16 season.

²TBB Trier was deducted four positive rating points for violating §17b of the game rules; In addition, four more positive rating points will be deducted from the club for violating §13 of the license statute. On April 13, the deduction of two of the eight positive evaluation points was withdrawn.

Play-offs 2014/15

	Quarter finals					Semifinals					final
	1	Brose Baskets Bamberg	3
	8th	MHP giant Ludwigsburg	0
						1	Brose Baskets Bamberg	3
						5	ratiopharm Ulm	0
	4th	Telekom Baskets Bonn	2
	5	ratiopharm Ulm	3
											1	Brose Baskets Bamberg	3
											3	FC Bayern Munich	2
	2	ALBA Berlin	3
	7th	EWE Baskets Oldenburg	0
						2	ALBA Berlin	2
						3	FC Bayern Munich	3
	3	FC Bayern Munich	3
	6th	Fraport Skyliners	1

Champions team

Brose Baskets' squad in the 2014/2015 season

player No. Nat. Surname birth size info Last club Guards ( PG , SG ) 9 Karsten Tadda 11/02/1988 1.91 m A-Nat TSV Tröster Breitengüßbach 11 Brad Wanamaker 07/25/1989 1.93 m Giorgio Tesi Pistoia 12 Daniel Schmidt 08/16/1990 1.86 m TSV Tröster Breitengüßbach 13 Jānis Strēlnieks 09/01/1989 1.91 m A-Nat  BK Budiwelnyk Kiev 17th Andreas Obst 07/13/1996 1.91 m UPS hall 25th Carlon Brown 04/10/1989 1.98 m Hapoel Tel Aviv 30th Dino Dizdarevic 03/18/1995 1.91 m DL * BCM Baunach Forwards ( SF , PF ) 7th Ryan Thompson 06/09/1988 1.98 m  Telenet Ostend 10 Daniel Theis 04/04/1992 2.04 m A-Nat Ratiopharm Ulm 15th Josh Duncan 05/12/1986 2.03 m  Hapoel Migdal Jerusalem 20th Elias Harris 07/06/1989 2.03 m A-Nat  Los Angeles Lakers 32 Johannes Thiemann 02/09/1994 2.03 m DL * BCM Baunach Center ( C ) 4th / Dalibor Bagarić 07/02/1980 2.16 m Al-Ahli Benghazi 21st / Trevor Mbakwe 01/24/1989 2.07 m  Acea Rome

Trainer Nat. Surname position Andrea Trinchieri Trainer Ilias Kantzouris Assistant coach Legend Abbr. meaning Team captain A-Nat National player (first country) DL Dual license player * Second club with double license swell Team homepage League homepage As of January 11, 2015

Honors 2014/15

Award	Surname	society
All-Star Game MVP	Brad Wanamaker	Brose Baskets
Player of the year	Jamel McLean	Alba Berlin
Best offensive player	DJ Kennedy	MHP giant Ludwigsburg
Best defender	Cliff Hammonds	Alba Berlin
Best young German player (U23)	Johannes Voigtmann	Fraport Skyliners
Most Improved Player	Johannes Voigtmann	Fraport Skyliners
Coach of the year	Saša Obradović	Alba Berlin
Most Likeable Player	Per Günther	ratiopharm ulm
Finals Most VP	Brad Wanamaker	Brose Baskets

Source:

All-BBL teams

All-BBL First Team :

• G Brad Wanamaker (Brose Baskets)
• G Alex Renfroe (Alba Berlin)
• F D. J. Kennedy (MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg)
• F Jamel McLean (Alba Berlin)
• C John Bryant (FC Bayern Munich)

All-BBL Second Team :

• G Khalid El-Amin (BG Göttingen)
• G Nihad Đedović (FC Bayern Munich)
• F Ryan Thompson (Brose Baskets)
• F Raymar Morgan (BG Göttingen)
• C Tim Ohlbrecht (Ratiopharm Ulm)

marketing

Since the start of the 2014/15 season, all up to 350 games in the Beko Basketball Bundesliga have been shown live and in HD via the Telekom Basketball portal . The games could be followed live or on demand via Telekom Entertain , as well as via PC, tablet or smartphone.

Web links

• Beko Basketball Bundesliga - homepage - official website of the Beko BBL
• Telekom Basketball - "Telekom Basketball" portal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dragons cease professional gaming, at artland-dragons.de, accessed on May 8, 2015.
2. ↑ Decision of the Licensing League Committee : Point deductions for TBB Trier , on beko-bbl.de, accessed on March 20, 2015
3. ↑ Two points instead of four: The arbitral tribunal partially revised the decision of the License League Committee, on beko-bbl.de, accessed on April 13, 2015
4. ↑ Awards & awards in the history of the Bundesliga. In: easycredit-bbl.de. Retrieved June 11, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Press release Telekom Basketball , on beko-bbl.de.