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2017–18 NBL season
League	National Basketball League
Sport	Basketball
Duration	October 2017–March 2018
Number of teams	8
Total attendance	688,712[1] (regular season)
TV partner(s)	Fox Sports (Australia) SBS (Australia) Sky Sport (New Zealand) NBL TV (online)
Regular season
Top seed	Melbourne United
Season MVP	Bryce Cotton (Perth Wildcats)
Top scorer	Jerome Randle (Sydney Kings)
Finals
Champions	Melbourne United
Runners-up	Adelaide 36ers
Finals MVP	Chris Goulding (Melbourne United)
NBL seasons
← 2016–17 2018–19 →

The 2017–18 NBL season was the 40th season of the National Basketball League since its establishment in 1979. A total of eight teams contested the league. The regular season was played between October 2017 and February 2018, followed by a post-season featuring the top four in March 2018.^[2]

Australian broadcast rights to the season were held by Fox Sports, in the third year of a five-year deal, with two games per week simulcast on SBS. In New Zealand, Sky Sport were the official league broadcaster.

As Australia and New Zealand participated in 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification, the league took a break during the newly created FIBA international windows of 20–28 November 2017 and 19–27 February 2018.

Pre-season

2017 NBL All-Australian Tour of China

China won the series 2-1.

Adelaide 36ers pre-season

2017 Merlion Cup

Semi-final

Final

Adelaide 36ers won the tournament.

Brisbane Bullets pre-season

Cairns Taipans pre-season

Illawarra Hawks pre-season

Melbourne United pre-season

New Zealand Breakers pre-season

Perth Wildcats pre-season

Sydney Kings pre-season

2017 International Basketball Championships

Semi-final

Final

Sydney Kings won the tournament.

2017 NBL Blitz

A pre-season tournament featuring all eight teams was held on 7–9 September 2017 in Traralgon, Victoria and on 10 September 2017 in Melbourne. The winners received the fifth annual Loggins-Bruton Cup.

Melbourne United won the 2017 NBL Blitz championship.

Regular season

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6

Round 7

Round 8

Round 9

Round 10

Round 11

Round 12

Round 13

Round 14

Round 15

Round 16

Round 17

Round 18

Round 19

Ladder

#	Team	Pld	W	L	Last 5	Streak	Home	Away	For	Against	%	Win %
1	Melbourne United	28	20	8	4-1	L1	11-3	9-5	2,434	2,298	105.92%	71.43%
2	Adelaide 36ers	28	18	10	3-2	W3	10-4	8-6	2,654	2,527	105.03%	64.29%
3	Perth Wildcats	28	16	12	2-3	W1	9-5	7-7	2,388	2,271	105.15%	57.14%
4	New Zealand Breakers	28	15	13	1-4	L4	9-5	6-8	2,364	2,387	99.04%	53.57%
5	Illawarra Hawks	28	12	16	2-3	W2	7-7	5-9	2,474	2,539	97.44%	42.86%
6	Cairns Taipans	28	11	17	1-4	L1	8-6	3-11	2,215	2,281	97.11%	39.29%
7	Sydney Kings	28	11	17	4-1	W4	6-8	5-9	2,418	2,504	96.57%	39.29%
8	Brisbane Bullets	28	9	19	1-4	L3	6-8	3-11	2,347	2,487	94.37%	32.14%

Ladder Progression

• Numbers highlighted in green indicate that the team finished the round inside the top four.


• Numbers highlighted in blue indicates the team finished first on the ladder in that round.


• Numbers highlighted in red indicates the team finished last place on the ladder in that round.

	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19
	Adelaide 36ers	4	4	3	3	4	4	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	2	2	3	2	2
	Brisbane Bullets	7	7	6	6	7	6	7	7	6	5	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	8
	Cairns Taipans	1	3	4	4	6	7	5	5	5	6	5	6	6	6	5	6	6	5	6
	Illawarra Hawks	5	8	7	8	5	5	6	6	7	7	7	5	5	5	6	5	5	6	5
	Melbourne United	3	2	5	5	3	3	4	4	3	3	3	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1
	New Zealand Breakers	8	5	1	2	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	3	3	3	3	4	2	4	4
	Perth Wildcats	2	1	2	1	2	2	2	2	1	1	2	1	1	2	4	3	4	3	3
	Sydney Kings	6	6	8	7	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	7

Finals Series

The 2017–18 National Basketball League Finals were played in March 2018, consisting of two best-of-three semi-final series and the best-of-five Grand Final series. In the semi-finals, the higher seed hosted the first and third games. In the Grand Final, the higher seed hosted the first, third and fifth games.

Playoff Seedings

1. Melbourne United


2. Adelaide 36ers


3. Perth Wildcats


4. New Zealand Breakers

The NBL tie-breaker system as outlined in the NBL Rules and Regulations states that in the case of an identical win-loss record, the overall points percentage will determine order of seeding.

Playoff Bracket

	Semi-finals							Grand Final
	1	Melbourne United	88	88	X
	4	New Zealand Breakers	77	86	X
								1	Melbourne United	107	95	101	81	100
								2	Adelaide 36ers	96	110	98	90	82
	2	Adelaide 36ers	109	89	X
	3	Perth Wildcats	74	88	X

Semi-finals

Grand Final

Awards

Pre-season

• 
  Most Valuable Player (Ray Borner Medal): Travis Trice (Brisbane Bullets)

Season

• 
  Most Valuable Player (Andrew Gaze Trophy): Bryce Cotton (Perth Wildcats)


• 
  Rookie of the Year: Isaac Humphries (Sydney Kings)


• 
  Best Defensive Player: Damian Martin (Perth Wildcats)


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  Best Sixth Man: Ramone Moore (Adelaide 36ers)


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  Most Improved Player: Shea Ili (New Zealand Breakers)


• 
  Fans MVP: Mitch Creek (Adelaide 36ers)


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  Coach of the Year (Lindsay Gaze Trophy): Dean Vickerman (Melbourne United)


• 
  Referee of the Year: Michael Aylen


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  All-NBL First Team:
  
  
  
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    Casper Ware (Melbourne United)
  
  
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    Bryce Cotton (Perth Wildcats)
  
  
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    Demitrius Conger (Illawarra Hawks)
  
  
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    Daniel Johnson (Adelaide 36ers)
  
  
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    Josh Boone (Melbourne United)
  
  
  
  


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  All-NBL Second Team:
  
  
  
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    Jerome Randle (Sydney Kings)
  
  
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    Édgar Sosa (New Zealand Breakers)
  
  
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    JP Tokoto (Perth Wildcats)
  
  
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    Mitch Creek (Adelaide 36ers)
  
  
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    Tai Wesley (Melbourne United)
  
  
  
  

Finals

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  Grand Final Series MVP (Larry Sengstock Medal): Chris Goulding (Melbourne United)

References