Super Basketball League
Current season, competition or edition: 2019–20 Super Basketball League | |
Sport | Basketball |
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Founded | 2003 |
No. of teams | 5 |
Country | Taiwan |
Continent | FIBA Asia |
Most recent champion(s) | Taiwan Beer (6th title) & Yulon Luxgen Dinos (5th title) |
Most titles | Taiwan Beer (6 titles) |
Level on pyramid | 1 |
Official website | SBL (in Chinese) |
The Super Basketball League (超級籃球聯賽), often abbreviated as the SBL, is semi-professional men's basketball league in Taiwan. It was founded in 2003 and considered by many[who?] as the successor organization to the short-lived Chinese Basketball Alliance (中華職業籃球聯盟; CBA), a men's professional basketball league that existed from 1994 to 1999 in Taiwan.
Current clubs[]
Currently, there are five teams competing in the SBL. They are as follows:
- Bank of Taiwan (臺灣銀行)
- Kaohsiung Jeoutai Technology (高雄九太科技)
- Taiwan Beer (台灣啤酒)
- Taoyuan Pauian Archiland (桃園璞園建築)
- Yulon Luxgen Dinos (裕隆納智捷)
Former and defunct clubs[]
- Dacin Tigers (達欣工程) – now competes in the
- Taipei Fubon Braves (臺北富邦勇士) – now competes in the P. League+ (PLG)
Champions[]
Champions and other postseason finishes are listed below:
Season | Champions | Runners-up | Third Place | Fourth Place |
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Yulon Dinos | Sina Lions[1] | |||
Yulon Dinos | Dacin Tigers | |||
Yulon Dinos | Taiwan Beer | Dacin Tigers | Bank of Taiwan | |
Taiwan Beer | Dacin Tigers | Videoland Hunters[2] | Yulon Dinos | |
Taiwan Beer | Yulon Dinos | dMedia Genies[3] | Pauian Archiland | |
Dacin Tigers | Taiwan Beer | |||
Yulon Luxgen Dinos | Dacin Tigers | |||
Taiwan Beer | Dacin Tigers | |||
Pauian Archiland | Dacin Tigers | |||
Pauian Archiland | Dacin Tigers | |||
Pauian Archiland | Taiwan Mobile Clouded Leopards[4] | |||
Pauian Archiland | Taiwan Beer | |||
Taiwan Beer | Pauian Archiland | |||
Dacin Tigers | Yulon Luxgen Dinos | |||
Taoyuan Pauian Archiland | Fubon Braves | |||
Fubon Braves | Taiwan Beer | |||
2019–20 | Taiwan Beer | Yulon Luxgen Dinos | ||
Taiwan Beer Yulon Luxgen Dinos[5] |
No Finals Played | Bank of Taiwan | Kaohsiung Jeoutai Technology |
Finals appearances[]
This is a list of the teams which have advanced to the SBL Finals and the overall win-loss records they have registered in the Championship Series.
No. | Team | W | L | Pct. | Notes |
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10 | Taiwan Beer | 6 | 4 | .600 | Made four consecutive finals appearances from 2005–06 to 2008–09. Titles included the cancelled 2021 finals (declared co-champions). |
8 | Yulon Luxgen Dinos | 5 | 3 | .625 | Won three league titles in a row from 2003–04 to 2005–06. Titles included the cancelled 2021 finals (declared co-champions). |
7 | Taoyuan Pauian Archiland | 5 | 2 | .714 | Won four league titles in a row from 2011–12 to 2014–15. |
8 | Dacin Tigers | 2 | 6 | .250 | Made five consecutive finals appearances from 2008–09 to 2012–13. |
3 | Fubon Braves | 1 | 2 | .333 |
League MVP[]
The winner of the Super Basketball League Most Valuable Player (MVP) award is chosen by reporters. The recipients of the award are listed below:
Season | Regular Season MVP | Championship Series MVP |
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2003–2004 | Tien Lei (田壘) Dacin Tigers | Chen Hsin-an (陳信安) Yulon Dinos |
2004–2005 | Tien Lei Dacin Tigers | Tseng Wen-ting (曾文鼎) Yulon Dinos |
2005–2006 | Tien Lei Dacin Tigers | Tseng Wen-ting Yulon Dinos |
2006–2007 | Lin Chih-chieh (林志傑) Taiwan Beer | Lin Chih-chieh Taiwan Beer |
2007–2008 | Chen Hsin-an (陳信安) Yulon Dinos | Lin Chih-chieh Taiwan Beer |
2008–2009 | Chang Chih-feng (張智峰) Dacin Tigers | Chang Chih-feng Dacin Tigers |
2009–2010 | Tseng Wen-ting Yulon Dinos | Chen Chih-chung (陳志忠) Yulon Dinos |
2010–2011 | Rashad Jennings Pure-Youth | Yang Jing-min (楊敬敏) Taiwan Beer |
2011–2012 | Quincy Davis Pauian | Chen Shih-chieh (陳世杰) Pauian |
2012–2013 | Tsai Wen-cheng (蔡文誠) Pauian | Tsai Wen-cheng (蔡文誠) Pauian |
2013–2014 | Liu Cheng (劉錚) Taiwan Beer | Tsai Wen-cheng (蔡文誠) Pauian |
2014–2015 | Chen Shun-hsiang (陳順詳) Bank of Taiwan | Garret Siler Pauian |
2015–2016 | Chou Yi-hsiang (周儀翔) Dacin Tigers | Patrick O'Bryant Taiwan Beer |
2016–2017 | Chou Yi-hsiang (周儀翔) Dacin Tigers | Su I-chieh (蘇翊傑) Dacin Tigers |
2017–2018 | Lu Cheng-ju (呂政儒) Yulon Dinos | Quincy Davis Pauian |
2018–2019 | Chiang Yu-an (蔣淯安) Taiwan Beer | Charles Garcia Fubon Braves |
2019–2020 | Chiang Yu-an (蔣淯安) Taiwan Beer | Chiang Yu-an (蔣淯安) Taiwan Beer |
2020–2021 | Hsieh Tsung-jung (謝宗融) Bank of Taiwan | Finals cancelled by pandemic |
Notable players[]
Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.
Criteria |
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To appear in this section a player must have either:
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Guards[]
- Chang Chih-feng (張智峰): 6'0", one-time champion, one-time regular season and finals MVP, two-time All-SBL Team, one-time Defensive Player of the Year, two-time steal champion
- (陳志忠): 6'0", four-time champion, one-time finals MVP, three-time All-SBL Team, one-time Defensive Player of the Year, one-time assist champion, one-time Sixth Man of the Year
- Lee Hsueh-lin (李學林): 5'9", four-time champion, one-time All-SBL Team
Forwards[]
- Chen Hsin-an (陳信安): 6'5", two-time champion, one-time regular season MVP, one-time finals MVP, one-time All-SBL Team, one-time scoring champion
- Lin Chih-chieh (林志傑): 6'3", two-time champion, two-time finals MVP, one-time regular season MVP, three-time All-SBL Team, two-time scoring champion
- Jonathan Sanders (桑德斯): 6'7", three-time All-SBL Team, three-time rebound champion, two-time assist champion, one-time Fighter of the Year (年度最佳鬥士) [6]
- Tien Lei (田壘): 6'8", one-time champion, three-time regular season MVP, three-time All-SBL Team, three-time rebound champion, two-time scoring champion, one-time steal champion
- Noel Felix
- Marcus Fizer
- Taylor King, Former McDonald's All-American and Duke basketball player
Centers[]
- Tseng Wen-ting (曾文鼎): 6'9", four-time champion, two-time finals MVP, one-time regular season MVP, four-time All-SBL Team and Defensive Player of the Year, six-time block champion
- Wu Tai-hao (吳岱豪): 6'8", one-time champion, one-time All-SBL Team, one-time block champion
- Patrick O'Bryant
- Solomon Alabi
- Garret Siler
- Earl Barron
Women's Super Basketball League[]
There is also a Women's Super Basketball League (WSBL) in Taiwan, which comprises the following four teams:
- (國泰人壽)
- (中華電信)
- (台灣電力)
- (台元紡織)
See also[]
- Chinese Basketball Alliance (CBA)
- Chinese Taipei men's national basketball team
- P. League+ (PLG)
- Sports in Taiwan
- Women's Super Basketball League (WSBL)
References[]
- ^ The Sina Lions are the precursor organization to the Taoyuan Pauian Archiland.
- ^ The Videoland Hunters are the precursor organization to the Taipei Fubon Braves.
- ^ The dMedia Genies are the precursor organization to the Kaohsiung Jeoutai Technology.
- ^ The Taiwan Mobile Clouded Leopards are the precursor organization to the Taipei Fubon Braves.
- ^ No finals played due to the pandemic shutdown. The SBL declared both finalists co-champions.
- ^ The SBL Fighter of the Year award is distinct from the MVP award and is not created regularly. It is a rough equivalence to a sportsmanship award and would be given to the player who has won the most Fighter of the Week awards throughout a season when a yearly award is officially created. This has only happened in the 2003-2004 and the 2009-2010 seasons where veteran point guard Chou Chun-san (周俊三) and import forward Jonathan Sanders won the respective awards. The league has never explained the rationale behind its decision to create the Fighter of the Year award in certain seasons but not the others.
External links[]
- Super Basketball League
- Basketball leagues in Taiwan
- 2003 establishments in Taiwan
- Sports leagues established in 2003
- Professional sports leagues in Taiwan