2017 VBA season
| 2017 VBA season | |
|---|---|
| League | Vietnam Basketball Association |
| Sport | Basketball |
| Number of teams | 6 |
| Top draft pick | Justin Young |
| Picked by | Thang Long Warriors |
| Regular season | |
| VBA Finals | |
The 2017 VBA season will be the second season of the Vietnam Basketball Association.
Notable occurrences
| Offseason | ||
|---|---|---|
| Team | 2016 coach | 2017 coach |
| Hochiminh City Wings | Mika Turunen | Ricky Magallanes |
| Thang Long Warriors | Expansion | Lee Tao Dana |
| Saigon Heat | Anthony Garbelotto | David Singleton |
| Cantho Catfish | David Singleton | Kevin Yurkus |
- The VBA held their annual tryouts for players of Vietnamese heritage at Hope International University in Fullerton, CA on May 6-7, 2017.[1]
- The Thang Long Warriors became the league's 6th franchise.[2]
- On May 19, the Saigon Heat and head coach Anthony Garbelotto mutually agreed to terminate his contract after a disappointing season with the ASEAN Basketball League team.[3]
- On June 14, the inaugural VBA Draft was held in HCMC for unsigned heritage players from the 2016 season and selects from the US tryouts.[4]
- The first ever trade in league history happened on June 28 with the Hochiminh City Wings trading the draft rights for Jimmy Kien to the Saigon Heat for the draft rights for Anthony Vo.
2017 VBA draft
The Thang Long Warriors selected Justin Young first in the inaugural VBA Heritage Player Draft.[4]
Draft
First Round
| Pick | Player | Nationality | VBA Team | Former Club Team/Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Justin Young |  United States |
Thang Long Warriors | Hochiminh City Wings / Hanoi Buffaloes |
| 2 | Vincent Nguyen |  Netherlands |
Hanoi Buffaloes | Den Bosch |
| 3 | Henry Nguyen | United States |
Hochiminh City Wings | United States |
First Round
| Pick | Player | Nationality | VBA Team | Former Club Team/Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Anthony Vo | United States |
Hochiminh City Wings | United States |
| 5 | Stefan Nguyen |  Sweden |
Danang Dragons | Danang Dragons / Saigon Heat |
| 6 | Sang Dinh | United States |
Cantho Catfish | Cantho Catfish |
| 7 | Ryan Le |  Canada |
Thang Long Warriors | Saigon Heat |
| 8 | Ryan Arnold | United States |
Hanoi Buffaloes | Hanoi Buffaloes |
| 9 | Jimmy Kien |  Australia |
Saigon Heat | Danang Dragons |
Import players
Each team is allowed 2 heritage players and 1 foreign player.
| Team | Heritage 1 | Heritage 2 | Foreign |
| Cantho Catfish | Tam Dinh | Sang Dinh | Khalil Brown |
| Danang Dragons | Horace Nguyen | Stefan Nguyen | Rudolphe Joly |
| Hanoi Buffaloes | Vincent Nguyen | Ryan Arnold | |
| Hochiminh City Wings | Henry Nguyen | Bilal Richardson | |
| Saigon Heat | David Arnold | Anthony Vo | Darius Lewis |
| Thang Long Warriors | Justin Young | Ryan Le | Jaywuan Hill |
Regular Season
Standings
| # | Team | W | L | PCT | GB | Home | Road | GP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cantho Catfish | 0 | 0 | .000 | – | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0 |
| 2 | Danang Dragons | 0 | 0 | .000 | – | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0 |
| 3 | Hanoi Buffaloes | 0 | 0 | .000 | – | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0 |
| 4 | Hochiminh City Wings | 0 | 0 | .000 | – | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0 |
| 5 | Saigon Heat | 0 | 0 | .000 | – | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0 |
| 6 | Thang Long Warriors | 0 | 0 | .000 | – | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0 |
Notes
- # – Playoff seed
- e – Eliminated from playoffs
References
- ↑ "Vietnam Basketball Association (VBA) to organize tryout for Vietnamese heritage player in the USA this May". vba.vn. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
- ↑ "The sixth VBA team Thang Long Warriors just revealed their logo". aseansports.com. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
- ↑ "Coach Anthony Garbelotto and Saigon Heat decided not to renew the contract". aseansports.com. Retrieved 20 May 2017.
- 1 2 "Shock picks made on Vietnam Basketball Association's Draft Day". vnexpress.net. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
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