2018 NAPB season | |
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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 |
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]