2001–02 NBDL season | |
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League | NBDL |
Sport | Basketball |
Draft | |
Top draft pick | Chris Andersen |
Picked by | Fayetteville Patriots |
Regular season | |
Top seed | North Charleston Lowgators |
Season MVP | Ansu Sesay ( Greenville Groove) |
Top scorer |
Isaac Fontaine (
Mobile Revelers) (17.4 ppg) |
Finals | |
Champions | Greenville Groove |
Runners-up | North Charleston Lowgators |
The 2001–02 NBDL season was the inaugural season for the National Basketball Development League. The league started with eight teams: Asheville Altitude, Columbus Riverdragons, Fayetteville Patriots, Greenville Groove, Huntsville Flight, Mobile Revelers, North Charleston Lowgators and Roanoke Dazzle. The season ended with the Groove defeating the Lowgators 2–0 in the best-of-three Finals series to win the inaugural NBDL championship. [1]
Team | W | L | PCT | GB |
---|---|---|---|---|
North Charleston Lowgators | 36 | 20 | .643 | — |
Greenville Groove | 36 | 20 | .643 | — |
Columbus Riverdragons | 31 | 25 | .554 | 5 |
Mobile Revelers | 30 | 26 | .536 | 6 |
Huntsville Flight | 26 | 30 | .464 | 10 |
Asheville Altitude | 26 | 30 | .464 | 10 |
Fayetteville Patriots | 21 | 35 | .375 | 15 |
Roanoke Dazzle | 18 | 38 | .321 | 18 |
Category | Player | Team | Stat |
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Points per game | Isaac Fontaine | Mobile Revelers | 17.4 |
Rebounds per game | Thomas Hamilton | Greenville Groove | 9.4 |
Assists per game | Omar Cook | Fayetteville Patriots | 7.8 |
Steals per game | Fred House | North Charleston Lowgators | 2.5 |
Blocks per game | Lee Scruggs | Asheville Altitude | 2.1 |
Field goal percentage | Lorenzo Coleman | Roanoke Dazzle | 60.6% |
3-pt field goal percentage | Terry Dehere | North Charleston Lowgators | 45.0% |
Free throw percentage | Isaac Fontaine | Mobile Revelers | 90.5% |
Source: Basketball-Reference
Award | Winner | Team |
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Most Valuable Player | Ansu Sesay | Greenville Groove |
Rookie of the Year | Fred House | North Charleston Lowgators |
Defensive Player of the Year | Jeff Myers | Greenville Groove |
Sportsmanship Award | Mike Wilks | Huntsville Flight |
Source: NBA.com
There were only 8 teams in the league. For the playoffs, the four teams with the best record in the league were seeded one to four. Each round of the playoffs were played a best-of-three series.
Semifinals (Best-of-3) | Finals (Best-of-3) | ||||||||
2 | Greenville | 2 | |||||||
3 | Columbus | 1 | |||||||
2 | Greenville | 2 | |||||||
1 | North Charleston | 0 | |||||||
1 | North Charleston | 2 | |||||||
4 | Mobile | 1 |
List of Playoff games
Greenville defeated North Charleston on April 10 to win the first NBDL championship. [2] [3]