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
League	ASEAN Basketball League
Sport	Basketball
Duration	16 November 2019 – 13 March 2020 (regular season; originally until 28 March 2020)
Number of teams	10
TV partner(s)	Cable TV Astro Arena S+A Singtel Mono 29 Eleven Sports Network FPT YouTube (non-participating nations)
Regular season
Top seed	None (cancelled)
ABL Finals
Champions	Not awarded (cancelled)

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

Slingers

Vampire

Heat

Dragons

Dreamers

Alab

Alab

Alab

Alab

Pearl River Delta

Braves

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Locations of ABL teams.

Black Bears

Eastern

Wolf Warriors

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Locations of ABL teams in the Pearl River Delta.

San Juan

Pasay

Caloocan

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Locations of ABL arenas in Metro Manila.

Team	City / Region	Arena	Capacity
Formosa Dreamers	Changhua, Changhua County	Changhua Stadium	8,000
Hong Kong Eastern	Wan Chai, Hong Kong	Southorn Stadium	2,000
Kuala Lumpur Dragons	Kuala Lumpur	MABA Stadium	2,500
Macau Black Bears	Macau	Venetian Macau Hall D
Mono Vampire	Bangkok Metropolitan Region	Stadium 29, Nonthaburi	5,000
Saigon Heat	Ho Chi Minh City	Canadian International School Vietnam Arena	2,500
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 Slingers	Singapore, Kallang	OCBC Arena	3,000
Taipei Fubon Braves	Taipei City	Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium	7,000
Wolf Warriors	Macau	Foshan Shishan Gymnasium
		Zhongshan Shaxi Gymnasium

Personnel

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

Imports

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

Local Heritage

Wolf Warriors	Saigon Heat	Alab Pilipinas	Macau Black Bears	Mono Vampire
Scott Ewing Cai Chen Cris Shentu He Feng Sun Zhi-Keng Tang Zhong Xianchao Hu Yue He Zhang	Chris Dierker Tam Dinh Vincent Nguyen Michael Soy Khoa Tran Tim Waale Justin Young	Jason Brickman Lawrence Domingo Jeremiah Gray Jordan Heading Brandon Rosser	Jenning Leung Yunlei Warren Liang He Jun Jian Liu Zihao	Freddie Goldstein Tyler Lamb Moses Morgan
Eastern	Formosa Dreamers	Taipei Fubon Braves	Kuala Lumpur Dragons	Singapore Slingers
Joseph Eriobu Steven Guinchard Sheikh Muhammad Sulaiman	Kenneth Chien	Joseph Lin	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	Mono Vampire	12	4	.750	—
2	Alab Pilipinas	10	6	.625	2
3	Kuala Lumpur Dragons	10	7	.588	2.5
4	Formosa Dreamers	8	6	.571	3
5	Taipei Fubon Braves	9	8	.529	3.5
6	Macau Black Bears	7	7	.500	4
7	Singapore Slingers	7	10	.412	5.5
8	Wolf Warriors	5	8	.385	5.5
9	Eastern	3	7	.300	6
10	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

Players of the Week Week Player Club Ref Week 1 Will Artino Kuala Lumpur Dragons [70] Week 2 Kenny Manigault Macau Black Bears [71] Week 3 O. J. Mayo Taipei Fubon Braves [72] Week 4 Jerran Young Formosa Dreamers [73] Week 5 Doug Herring Jr. Macau Wolf Warriors Week 6 Week 7 O. J. Mayo Taipei Fubon Braves Week 8 Jerran Young Formosa Dreamers Week 9 Mike Singletary Mono Vampire Week 10 Kenny Manigault Macau Black Bears Week 11 Jason Brickman Alab Pilipinas Week 12 Xavier Alexander Singapore Slingers Week 13 Will Artino Kuala Lumpur Dragons Week 14 Cade Davis Kuala Lumpur Dragons

Players of the Month Month Player Club Ref November Mike Singletary Mono Vampire [74] December January O. J. Mayo Taipei Fubon Braves

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External links

• Official website