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2013 New Zealand NBL season

Field	Value
title	2013 New Zealand NBL season
league	New Zealand NBL
sport	Basketball
duration	19 April – 14 July
no_of_games	16
no_of_teams	9
season	Regular season
minor_premiers	Wellington Saints
MVP	Lindsay Tait (Wellington Saints)
MVP_link	New Zealand NBL Most Valuable Player Award
top_scorer	Josh Pace (Nelson Giants)
top_scorer_link	New Zealand NBL Scoring Champion
finals	Final Four
finals_champ	Southland Sharks
finals_runner-up	Nelson Giants
final_four_MVP	Leon Henry
final_four_MVP_link	New Zealand NBL Finals Most Valuable Player Award
seasonslistnames	New Zealand NBL
prevseason_link	2012 New Zealand NBL season
prevseason_year	2012
nextseason_link	2014 New Zealand NBL season
nextseason_year	2014

| finals_runner-up = Nelson Giants

The 2013 NBL season was the 32nd season of the National Basketball League. The 2013 season saw the withdrawal of the Auckland Pirates and Harbour Heat, but saw the return of the Waikato Pistons after a one-year hiatus as well as the Super City Rangers, who returned to the league for the first time since 1995.

The 2013 NBL Final Four saw the top four teams play off on Saturday 13 July in a semifinals round, with the winner of each game playing in the final on Sunday 14 July at Pettigrew Green Arena in Napier.

Team information

Team	City	Arena	Head Coach	Import	Import
Hawke's Bay Hawks	Napier	Pettigrew Green Arena	NZL Tab Baldwin	SRB Darko Cohadarevic	USA Brian Greene
Manawatu Jets	Palmerston North	Arena Manawatu	GRE Mike Kalavros	USA Chris Hagan	USA Marcel Jones*
Nelson Giants	Nelson	Trafalgar Centre	AUS Liam Flynn	USA Erron Maxey	USA Josh Pace
Otago Nuggets	Dunedin	Edgar Centre	NZL Anthony Arlidge	USA Antoine Tisby	USA Akeem Wright
Southland Sharks	Invercargill	Stadium Southland	NZL Paul Henare	USA Kevin Braswell	USA Brian Conklin
Super City Rangers	Auckland	The Trusts Arena	NZL Aik Ho	USA Carl Buck
Taranaki Mountainairs	New Plymouth	TSB Stadium	NZL Dave Bublitz	USA Kenny Gabriel	USA Jack Leasure
Waikato Pistons	Hamilton	Hamilton Boys' High School	NZL Doug Courtney	USA Zack Atkinson	USA Garrius Holloman
Wellington Saints	Wellington	TSB Bank Arena	NZL Pero Cameron	USA Bryant Markson	USA Rick Rickert

*Despite holding New Zealand citizenship, Jones had to play as an import due to a new league rule where each team could only field one naturalised New Zealand player (Manawatu already had Nick Horvath filling that spot).

Summary

Regular season standings

Pos	Team	W
Wellington Saints	14	2
Otago Nuggets	12	4
Nelson Giants	12	4
Southland Sharks	11	5
Manawatu Jets	9	7
Taranaki Mountainairs	5	11
Hawke's Bay Hawks	5	11
Waikato Pistons	2	14
Super City Rangers	2	14

Final Four

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Awards

Player of the Week

Round	Player	Team	Ref
1	B. J. Anthony	Otago Nuggets	url=http://www.basketball.org.nz/news/dickel-awarded-for-marathon-game/	title=DICKEL FETED FOR EPIC GAME	work=Basketball.org.nz	date=9 July 2013	archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150126083343/http://www.basketball.org.nz/news/dickel-awarded-for-marathon-game/	archivedate=26 January 2015	url-status=dead}}
2	Josh Pace	Nelson Giants
3	Kenny Gabriel	Taranaki Mountainairs
4	Nick Horvath	Manawatu Jets
5	Akeem Wright	Otago Nuggets
6	Bryant Markson	Wellington Saints
7	Antoine Tisby	Otago Nuggets
8	Kevin Braswell	Southland Sharks
9	Akeem Wright	Otago Nuggets
10	Josh Pace	Nelson Giants
11	Rick Rickert	Wellington Saints
12	Mark Dickel	Otago Nuggets

Statistics leaders

Stats as of the end of the regular season

Category		Player		Team		Stat
Points per game
Rebounds per game
Assists per game
Steals per game
Blocks per game

Regular season

Most Valuable Player: Lindsay Tait (Wellington Saints)
NZ Most Valuable Player: Lindsay Tait (Wellington Saints)
Most Outstanding Guard: Lindsay Tait (Wellington Saints)
Most Outstanding NZ Guard: Lindsay Tait (Wellington Saints)
Most Outstanding Forward: Brian Conklin (Southland Sharks)
Most Outstanding NZ Forward/Centre: B. J. Anthony (Otago Nuggets)
Scoring Champion: Josh Pace (Nelson Giants)
Rebounding Champion: Zack Atkinson (Waikato Pistons)
Assist Champion: Lindsay Tait (Wellington Saints)
Rookie of the Year: Tai Webster (Waikato Pistons)
Coach of the Year: Paul Henare (Southland Sharks)
All-Star Five:
- G: Lindsay Tait (Wellington Saints)
- G: Josh Pace (Nelson Giants)
- F: B. J. Anthony (Otago Nuggets)
- F: Brian Conklin (Southland Sharks)
- C: Nick Horvath (Manawatu Jets)

Final Four

Final Four MVP: Leon Henry (Southland Sharks)

References

[https://web.archive.org/web/20130618034335/http://www.basketball.org.nz/news/final-four-in-the-bay/ FINAL FOUR IN THE BAY]
(9 July 2013). "DICKEL FETED FOR EPIC GAME". Basketball.org.nz.
[https://web.archive.org/web/20130814151800/http://www.basketball.org.nz/news/sharks-are-the-champions/ SHARKS ARE NBL CHAMPIONS]
[http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/basketball/8917874/Hungry-Sharks-claim-unlikely-NBL-title Hungry Sharks claim unlikely NBL title]

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