Basketball Bundesliga 2015/16

Basketball Bundesliga 2015/16
Duration		October 1, 2015 - June 16, 2016
Order of execution		50th season
organizer		BBL GmbH
Number of teams		18th
Main round
Main round first		Brose Baskets
Main rounds - MVP		Brad Wanamaker ( Brose Baskets )
Top scorer		Kyle Fogg ( Polar Bears Bremerhaven )
Best defender		Quantez Robertson ( Fraport Skyliners )
Best young German player		Paul Zipser ( FC Bayern Munich )
Coach of the season		Gordon Herbert ( Fraport Skyliners )
Play-offs
German champions		Brose Baskets
Runner-up		ratiopharm ulm
Finals - MVP		Darius Miller ( Brose Baskets )
← Basketball Bundesliga 2014/15 Basketball Bundesliga 2016/17 →
ProA 2015/16 ↓

The 2015/16 Basketball Bundesliga season (officially Beko Basketball Bundesliga ) was the 50th season of the top German division in men's basketball . The regular season started on October 1, 2015 and ended on May 1, 2016 with the 34th and final game day. The play-off final round for the championship lasted until June 12, 2016.

After their fifth title win in the past six seasons, the Brose Baskets from Bamberg started the 50th anniversary season as defending champions. At the unofficial start of the BBL Champions Cup season on September 27, 2015, the champions of the 2014/15 season received the EWE Baskets Oldenburg , the winner of the Beko BBL Cup 2015, in a new edition of the league cup final . Together with runner-up FC Bayern Munich , the champion also took part in the ULEB Euroleague 2015/16 . In the Eurocup 2015/16 , the league was represented by the former semi-finalists Alba Berlin and ratiopharm ulm , last year's fourth in the table Telekom Baskets Bonn and, after the waiver of other teams initially registered, the EWE Baskets Oldenburg and MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg .

For the anniversary season, the Gießen 46ers , a founding member of the league and consistently top-notch until relegation in 2013, as well as the s.Oliver Baskets from Würzburg returned to the league after being promoted directly back to the league. The Artland Dragons withdrew from the top division after twelve years of membership in the first division and continued the game with a changed organization in the third division ProB 2015/16 , so that the former bottom of the table Crailsheim Merlins could remain in the division by means of a " wildcard ". The penultimate TBB Trier withdrew from gaming operations after bankruptcy. The successor organization Gladiators Trier obtained a license for the second highest division ProA 2015/16 .

In the 46:43 victory of the Basketball Löwen Braunschweig over Alba Berlin on January 16, 2016, with 89 points, the second worst point result in the history of the Bundesliga was achieved.

Teams

Brose Baskets medi bayreuth Alba Berlin Telekom Baskets Bonn Löwen Braunschweig Polar bears Bremerhaven Crailsheim Merlins Fraport Skyliners Casting 46ers BG Göttingen Phoenix Hagen MHP giant Ludwigsburg FC Bayern Munich EWE Baskets Oldenburg Walter Tigers Tubingen ratiopharm ulm Central German BC s.Oliver Baskets

Teams of the Basketball Bundesliga 2015/16

team	city	Hall	Places
Brose Baskets	Bamberg	Brose Arena	06,800
medi bayreuth	Bayreuth	Upper Franconia Hall	04,000
Alba Berlin	Berlin	Mercedes-Benz Arena	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
Casting 46ers	to water	Gießen-Ost sports hall	04,003
BG Göttingen	Goettingen	Sparkassen-Arena	03,450
Phoenix Hagen	Hagen	Enervie Arena	03,402
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
Central German BC	Weissenfels	Weißenfels town hall	03,000
s.Oliver Baskets	Wurzburg	s.Oliver Arena	03,140

Closing table

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

in brackets: M = champions of the previous season / P = cup winners of the previous season / A = promoters for this season / WC = wildcard

# team Victories Defeats Points baskets 1 Brose Baskets (M) 31 3 62: 6 3053: 2396 2 EWE Baskets Oldenburg (P) 27 7th 54:14 2861: 2656 3 Fraport Skyliners 26th 8th 52:16 2688: 2318 4th FC Bayern Munich 26th 8th 52:16 3096: 2644 5 MHP giant Ludwigsburg 23 11 46:22 2799: 2666 6th Alba Berlin 22nd 12 44:24 2797: 2518 7th ratiopharm ulm 21st 13 42:26 2810: 2687 8th s.Oliver Baskets (A) 17th 17th 34:34 2724: 2793 9 Giessen 46ers (A) 17th 17th 34:34 2649: 2691 10 Basketball Löwen Braunschweig 16 18th 32:36 2545: 2611 11 Telekom Baskets Bonn 12 22nd 24:44 2763: 2947 12 medi bayreuth 12 22nd 24:44 2550: 2775 13 Phoenix Hagen 1 14th 20th 22:40 2851: 3000 14th Walter Tigers Tubingen 10 24 20:48 2689: 2858 15th Polar bears Bremerhaven 9 25th 18:50 2595: 2826 16 BG Göttingen 9 25th 18:50 2596: 2918 17th Central German BC 9 25th 18:50 2673: 2933 18th Crailsheim Merlins (WC) 5 29 10:58 2464: 2966

¹ Deduction of six positive evaluation points after a breach of notification obligations and a final fine of € 10,000.

Play-offs 2015/16

	Quarter finals					Semifinals					final
	1	Brose Baskets	3
	8th	s.Oliver Baskets	0
						1	Brose Baskets	3
						4th	FC Bayern Munich	0
	4th	FC Bayern Munich	3
	5	MHP giant Ludwigsburg	2
											1	Brose Baskets	3
											7th	ratiopharm ulm	0
	3	Fraport Skyliners	3
	6th	Alba Berlin	0
						3	Fraport Skyliners	1
						7th	ratiopharm ulm	3
	2	EWE Baskets Oldenburg	1
	7th	ratiopharm ulm	3

Champions team

Brose Baskets' squad in the 2015/2016 season

player No. Nat. Surname birth size info Last club Guards ( PG , SG ) 6th Nikolaos Zisis August 16, 1983 1.97 m A-Nat  Fenerbahçe Ülker 7th Aleksej Nikolić February 21, 1995 1.91 m A-Nat  OKK Spars Sarajevo 8th Lucca Staiger June 14, 1988 1.96 m FC Bayern Munich 11 Brad Wanamaker July 25, 1989 1.93 m Giorgio Tesi Pistoia 12 Malik Müller January 24, 1994 1.90 m  Virginia Tech University 13 Jānis Strēlnieks September 1, 1989 1.91 m A-Nat  BK Budiwelnyk Kiev Forwards ( SF , PF ) 4th Nicolò Melli January 26, 1991 2.05 m A-Nat  Olimpia Milano 10 Daniel Theis April 4, 1992 2.04 m A-Nat Ratiopharm Ulm 20th Elias Harris July 6, 1989 2.03 m A-Nat  Los Angeles Lakers 21st Darius Miller March 21, 1990 2.03 m  New Orleans Pelicans 33 Patrick Heckmann February 27, 1992 1.98 m  Boston College Center ( C ) 34 Yassin Idbihi July 24, 1983 2.08 m FC Bayern Munich 43 Leon Radosevic February 26, 1990 2.09 m  Beşiktaş JK Istanbul (basketball)

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 November 17, 2015

Honors 2015/16

Award	Surname	society
All-Star Game MVP	Per Günther	ratiopharm ulm
Player of the year	Brad Wanamaker	Brose Baskets
Best offensive player	Brad Wanamaker	Brose Baskets
Best defender	Quantez Robertson	Fraport Skyliners
Best young German player (U22)	Paul Zipser	FC Bayern Munich
Coach of the year	Gordon Herbert	Fraport Skyliners
Most effective player nationally	Daniel Theis	Brose Baskets
Most effective player internationally	Brian Qvale	EWE Baskets Oldenburg
Most Likeable Player	Per Günther	ratiopharm ulm
Finals MVP	Darius Miller	Brose Baskets

Source:

All-BBL teams

All-BBL First Team :

• G Brad Wanamaker (Brose Baskets)
• G Bryce Taylor (FC Bayern Munich)
• F Rickey Paulding (EWE Baskets Oldenburg)
• F Nicolò Melli (Brose Baskets)
• C Brian Qvale (EWE Baskets Oldenburg)

All-BBL Second Team :

• G Jordan Theodore (Fraport Skyliners)
• G Vaughn Duggins (EWE Baskets Oldenburg)
• F Darius Miller (Brose Baskets)
• F Daniel Theis (Brose Baskets)
• C Johannes Voigtmann (Fraport Skyliners)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Preliminary schedule for 2015–2016. Basketball Bundesliga , July 7, 2015, accessed on July 17, 2015 (media information). 
2. ↑ Poorest yield: ALBA loses with 43:46 , in: t-online.de (January 16, 2016).
3. ↑ Axel Gaiser: penalty against Phoenix Hagen is significantly reduced. DerWesten.de , April 18, 2016, accessed on May 8, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Awards & awards in the history of the Bundesliga. In: easycredit-bbl.de. Retrieved June 11, 2017 .