2018 NAPB season

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2018 NAPB season
League NAPB
Sport Basketball
Duration December 31, 2017 – April 28, 2018
Draft
Top draft pick Vance Cooksey
Picked by Vancouver Knights
Regular season
Top seed Yakima SunKings
Season MVP Edwin Ubiles (Albany)
Playoffs
Finals champions Yakima SunKings
  Runners-up Albany Patroons
Finals MVP Renaldo Major
NAPB seasons

The 2018 NAPB season was the inaugural season for the North American Premier Basketball. For 2018, the league consists of eight teams: the Albany Patroons, Kansas City Tornados, Kentucky Thoroughbreds, Nevada Desert Dogs, Ohio Cardinals, Rochester Razorsharks, Vancouver Knights, and Yakima SunKings.

The Ohio Cardinals were replaced after 23 games by the Ohio Bootleggers, a semi-professional team in the North American Basketball League that also apparently had taken over operations of the Vancouver Knights sometime during the season. The Knights also had become a travel team at that point and was transferred to a new ownership group that was never identified.[1]

The season ended with the SunKings defeating the Patroons two-games-to-none in the best-of-three finals to win the inaugural NAPB championship.[2]

Standings

Final standings:[3]

Team W L PCT GB
Yakima SunKings 24 8 .742 0
Albany Patroons 19 10 .655 3.5
Ohio Cardinals/Bootleggers[lower-alpha 1] 17 11 .607 5.0
Kansas City Tornados 15 15 .500 8.0
Nevada Desert Dogs 14 15 .483 8.5
Kentucky Thoroughbreds 14 19 .424 10.5
Rochester Razorsharks 11 18 .379 11.5
Vancouver Knights 7 25 .219 17.0

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Season award winners

Award Winner Team
Most Valuable Player Edwin Ubiles Albany Patroons
Rookie of the Year Xavier Moon Albany Patroons
Defensive Player of the Year Renaldo Major Yakima SunKings
Person of the Year Jelan Kendrick Nevada Desert Dogs
New Comer of the Year Charlton Jones Kansas City Tornados
6 Man of the Year A.J Gaines Nevada Desert Dogs
Coach of the Year Paul Woolpert Yakima SunKings

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Playoffs

There were eight teams in the league with the top four teams seeded one to four for the playoffs. Each round of the playoffs were played a best-of-three series.[5]

Semifinals
(Best-of-3)		 Finals
(Best-of-3)
           
1 Yakima SunKings 2
4 Kansas City Tornados 1
1 Yakima SunKings 2
2 Albany Patroons 0
2 Albany Patroons 2
3 Ohio Bootleggers 1


Draft

The inaugural player draft for the league was held on December 3, 2017,[6] and the league's eight charter teams took turns selecting players who had all competed at the college level in the United States at some point.

Vance Cooksey of Youngstown State University was the first overall NAPB selection taken by Vancouver Knights.[6] Consequently, this makes him the first-ever selection in the history of the league.

Although some of the players chosen in the draft had played semi-professional or professional basketball after college graduation, only the United States colleges they attended are listed.

Pos. G F C
Position Guard Forward Center
Round Pick Player Position Nationality Team College Year graduated
1 1 Vance Cooksey F/C  United States Vancouver Knights Youngstown State 2011
1 2 Jackson Trapp G  United States Yakima Sun Kings Florida Atlantic University 2016
1 3 Glennroy Carr F  United States Rochester RazorSharks Buffalo State University 2011
1 4 Luke Cochran F  United States Nevada Desert Dogs Sonoma State University 2017
1 5 Chris Langoria G  United States Kansas City Tornados Valdosta State University 2016
1 6 Iman Johnson F  United States Kentucky Thoroughbreds Samford University 2016
1 7 Tony Anderson G  United States Ohio Cardinals Southeast Missouri State 2016
1 8 Steven Cunningham G  United States Albany Patroons Troy University 2012
2 9 Alonzo Murphy F  United States Vancouver Knights Lincoln University 2015
2 10 Devonte Luckett F  United States Yakima Sun Kings Yakima Valley Community College 2016
2 11 Isaiah Thomas G  United States Rochester RazorSharks Southeastern Illinois College 2016
2 12 Anthony Strickland F  United States Nevada Desert Dogs South Suburban College 2017
2 13 Jordan Stotts F  United States Kansas City Tornados University of Sioux Falls 2016
2 14 Bright Mensah G  United States Kentucky Thoroughbreds William Paterson University 2016
2 15 Eddie Hayden G  United States Ohio Cardinals West Virginia Tech 2012
2 16 Anthony Estes G  United States Albany Patroons North Carolina A&T 2015

References

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