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2022–23 BNXT League

The 2022–23 BNXT League was the second season of the BNXT League, the highest professional basketball league in Belgium and the Netherlands. ZZ Leiden was the defending champion.

2022–23 BNXT League
BNXT League
Basketball
30 September 2022–18 February 2023 (National phase)
3 March–28 April 2023 (Cross-border phase)
3 May–13 June 2023 (Playoffs)
20
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Antwerp Giants
Brian Fobbs (Mechelen)
Vincent Cole (Yoast United)
Oostende (24th title)
Antwerp Giants
ZZ Leiden (5th title)
Donar
ZZ Leiden (2nd title)
Oostende
David Collins (ZZ Leiden)

The 2022–23 BNXT League was the second season of the BNXT League, the highest professional basketball league in Belgium and the Netherlands. ZZ Leiden was the defending champion.

The season began on 30 September 2022.

The league consisted of different stages with national championships and a common BeNeLeague championship.

	Teams entering in this round
10 Belgian teams
10 Dutch teams
All teams play each other home and away (18 games)
Best 5 Dutch teams
Best 5 Belgian teams
Teams play 10 games
Bottom-5 Dutch teams
Bottom-5 Belgian teams
Teams play 10 games
Top two Gold teams from each country go directly to semifinals
Three other Gold teams play in quarter-finals
Best Silver team joins the quarter-finals
BNXT playoffs R1: Elite Silver playoff (8 teams)
BNXT playoffs R2: 4 Winners Elite Silver Playoff vs. 4 national PO . quarter-finalists dropping out
BNXT playoffs R3: Winners BNXT PO1 vs. losing semi-finalists national PO
BNXT playoffs R4: BNXT PO2 winners compete against each other
BNXT Quarter-finals: Winners BNXT PO3 vs. losing finalists national PO
BNXT Semi-finals: Winners BNXT PO4 vs. champions national PO
BNXT Finals: Winners BNXT PO5 will compete for the title of BNXT League Champion.

On 20 June 2022, the league announced 20 teams obtained a club license. The Hague Royals were not granted a license.

Phoenix Brussels changed their name to Circus Brussels Basketball after they signed a new sponsorship deal.

Note: Table lists in alphabetical order.

Club	Location	Venue	Capacity
Apollo Amsterdam	Amsterdam	Apollohal	1,500
Aris Leeuwarden	Leeuwarden	Kalverdijkje	1,700
BAL	Weert	Sporthal Boshoven	1,000
Den Helder Suns	Den Helder	Sporthal Sportlaan	1,000
Donar	Groningen	MartiniPlaza	4,350
Feyenoord	Rotterdam	Topsportcentrum Rotterdam	2,500
Heroes Den Bosch	's-Hertogenbosch	Maaspoort	2,800
Landstede Hammers	Zwolle	Landstede Sportcentrum	1,200
Yoast United	Bemmel	De Kooi	650
ZZ Leiden	Leiden	Vijf Meihal	2,000
Antwerp Giants	Antwerp	Lotto Arena	5,218
Brussels Basketball	Brussels	Sports Complex Neder-Over-Heembeek	1,200
Kangoeroes Mechelen	Mechelen	Winketkaai	1,500
Leuven Bears	Leuven	Sportoase	3,400
Liège Basket	Liège	Country Hall	5,000
Limburg United	Hasselt	Alverberg Sporthal	1,730
Mons-Hainaut	Mons	Mons Arena	4,000
Okapi Aalst	Aalst	Okapi Forum	2,800
Oostende	Ostend	Coretec Dôme	5,000
Spirou	Charleroi	Spiroudome	6,200

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Main sponsor
Antwerp Giants	Ivica Skelin	Jean-Marc Mwema	Spalding	Telenet
Apollo Amsterdam	Wierd Goedee		Nike	Behind The Arc
Aris Leeuwarden	Vincent van Sliedregt	Tim Hoeve	Craft	Vriezon
BAL	Radenko Varagić		Spalding	Enerparking
Brussels Basketball	Jean-Marc Jaumin	Terry Deroover	Macron	Circus
Den Helder Suns	Peter van Noord	Nino Gorissen	Spalding	TekPark
Donar	Andrej Štimac		Macron	FlexVirtual
Feyenoord	Toon van Helfteren		Adidas	Zeeuw & Zeeuw
Heroes Den Bosch	Erik Braal	Boy van Vliet	Macron	Inamood
Kangoeroes Mechelen	Kristof Michiels	Wen Mukubu	Spalding	Bengal
Landstede Hammers	Mark van Schutterhoef (a.i.)		Acerbis	Landstede
Leuven Bears	Eddy Casteels	Joshua Heath	Spalding	Stella Artois
Liège Basket	Brad Greenberg	Brieuc Lemaire	Ohka	Solidbeton
Limburg United	Raymond Westphalen	Clifford Hammonds	K1x	Hubo Belgium
Mons-Hainaut	Vedran Bosnić	Justin Cage	Olympic	Belfius
Okapi Aalst	Thomas Crab	Ivan Maras	Spalding	CheckNet
Oostende	Dario Gjergja	Dušan Đorđević	Spalding	Filou
Spirou	Sam Rotsaert	Alex Libert	Spalding	RTL
Yoast United	Paul Vervaeck		Jako	Yoast SEO
ZZ Leiden	Doug Spradley	Marijn Ververs	Peak	Zorg en Zekerheid

Team	Outgoing coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming coach	Date of appointment
Antwerp Giants	Luc Smout	End of interim spell	10 May 2022	Pre-season	Ivica Skelin	10 May 2022
ZZ Leiden	Geert Hammink	Signed with Skyliners Frankfurt	17 June 2022	Doug Spradley	15 August 2022
Donar	Matthew Otten	Fired	13 October 2022	10th (0–1)	Andrej Štimac	13 October 2022
Liège Basket	Lionel Bosco	Fired	15 December 2022	10th (2-6)	Brad Greenberg	7 January 2023
Landstede Hammers	Herman van den Belt	Mutual agreement	7 March 2023		Mark van Schutterhoef (interim)	7 March 2023
Feyenoord	Toon van Helfteren	Fired	21 April 2023	18th (1–7 in Elite Gold)	Armand Salomon (interim)	21 April 2023

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	18	18	0	1607	1177	+430	36	Advance to Elite Gold
2	18	13	5	1411	1173	+238	31
3	18	11	7	1477	1367	+110	29
4	18	11	7	1457	1386	+71	29
5	18	10	8	1383	1269	+114	28
6	18	10	8	1475	1448	+27	28	Advance to Elite Silver
7	18	8	10	1336	1335	+1	26
8	18	4	14	1264	1553	−289	22
9	18	4	14	1222	1483	−261	22
10	18	1	17	1126	1567	−441	19

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	18	14	4	1589	1385	+204	32	Advance to Elite Gold
2	18	12	6	1431	1309	+122	30
3	18	11	7	1504	1425	+79	29
4	18	10	8	1528	1473	+55	28
5	18	10	8	1447	1363	+84	28
6	18	8	10	1376	1379	−3	26	Advance to Elite Silver
7	18	8	10	1419	1457	−38	26
8	18	7	11	1469	1539	−70	25
9	18	6	12	1379	1556	−177	24
10	18	4	14	1321	1577	−256	22

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	10	10	0	2194	1951	+243	35	Advance to National Playoffs Semifinals (BE)
2	10	8	2	2424	2055	+369	34
3	10	8	2	2281	2145	+136	33	Advance to National Playoffs Quarterfinals (BE)
4	10	5	5	2156	1919	+237	31	Advance to National Playoffs Semifinals (NL)
5	10	2	8	2319	1937	+382	30
6	10	6	4	2082	1950	+132	30	Advance to National Playoffs Quarterfinals (NL)
7	10	3	7	2115	2135	−20	28
8	10	4	6	2305	2210	+95	28	Advance to National Playoffs Quarterfinals (BE)
9	10	4	6	2236	2193	+43	28
10	10	0	10	2211	2291	−80	25	Advance to National Playoffs Quarterfinals (NL)

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	10	10	0	2238	2034	+204	33	Advance to National Playoffs Quarterfinals (BE)
2	10	9	1	2361	2237	+124	32	Advance to BNXT Playoffs
3	10	8	2	2276	2268	+8	31
4	10	7	3	2231	2313	−82	29
5	10	3	7	2276	2288	−12	27	Advance to National Playoffs Quarterfinals (NL)
6	10	5	5	2173	2431	−258	26	Advance to BNXT Playoffs
7	10	2	8	2107	2170	−63	25
8	10	3	7	1954	2302	−348	24
9	10	2	8	2026	2462	−436	23
10	10	1	9	1835	2479	−644	20

In the national playoffs, quarterfinals will be played best-of-three format (1–1–1), semifinals and finals will be played in a best-of-five format (1–1–1–1–1).

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
Donar	2–0	Yoast United	75–65	89–72	—
Landstede Hammers	1–2	Aris Leeuwarden	98–101	80–76	82–101

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5
ZZ Leiden	3–0	Aris Leeuwarden	99–93	72–64	98–94	—	—
Heroes Den Bosch	1–3	Donar	71–68	60–69	65–78	54–67	—

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5
ZZ Leiden	3–2	Donar	91–94	68–65	55–64	68–45	82–81

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
Limburg United	2–0	Spirou	81–71	83–77	—
Kangoeroes Mechelen	2–1	Leuven Bears	75–62	62–86	98–89

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5
Antwerp Giants	3–1	Limburg United	59–77	62–50	89–74	77–70	—
Oostende	3–2	Kangoeroes Mechelen	87–77	70–73	84–74	77–92	82–59

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5
Antwerp Giants	1–3	Oostende	63–62	60–94	70–86	60–81	—

The highest ranked team before the start of the playoffs always has the home court advantage. This means that they always play the last game of a playoff series or a home and away matchup at home.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Okapi Aalst	188–161	Apollo Amsterdam	87–94	101–67
Circus Brussels Basketball	152–137	Feyenoord	77–75	75–62
Mons-Hainaut	176–165	Den Helder Suns	98–82	78–83
Liège Basket	170–120	BAL	80–68	90–52

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Leuven Bears	176–146	Okapi Aalst	75–81	101–65
Spirou	169–144	Circus Brussels Basketball	84–61	85–83
Landstede Hammers	179–186	Liège Basket	79–94	100–92
Yoast United	166–168	Mons-Hainaut	75–86	91–82

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Heroes Den Bosch	141–154	Leuven Bears	70–80	71–74
Aris Leeuwarden	149–177	Spirou	84–91	65–86
Limburg United	179–157	Liège Basket	88–79	91–78
Kangoeroes Mechelen	158–117	Mons-Hainaut	93–61	65–56

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Leuven Bears	154–162	Spirou	82–83	72–79
Limburg United	176–144	Kangoeroes Mechelen	93–71	83–73

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Antwerp Giants	134–162	Spirou	67–85	67–77
Donar	164–175	Limburg United	67–87	97–88

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
ZZ Leiden	157–125	Spirou	86–67	71–58
Oostende	190–154	Limburg United	86–87	104–67

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
Oostende	1–2	ZZ Leiden	66–79	76–63	80–91

The winner of individual awards were announced on April 25, 2023.

Category	Player	Team	Nominees
Most Valuable Player (MVP)	Brian Fobbs	Kangoeroes Mechelen	Desonta Bradford (Antwerp Giants) Brian Fobbs (Kangoeroes) Breein Tyree (Filou Oostende)
BNXT Finals MVP	David Collins	ZZ Leiden	–
Belgian Playoff Finals MVP	Vrenz Bleijenbergh	Filou Oostende	–
Dutch Playoff Finals MVP	Thomas Rutherford	ZZ Leiden	–
Dream Team	Breein Tyree	Filou Oostende	–
Brian Fobbs	Kangoeroes Mechelen
Pierre-Antoine Gillet	Filou Oostende
Vincent Cole	Yoast United
Thijs De Ridder	Telenet Giants Antwerp
Dutch Player of the Year	Thomas van der Mars	Heroes Den Bosch	Marijn Ververs (ZZ Leiden) Sam Van Oostrum (Den Helder Suns) Thomas van der Mars (Heroes Den Bosch)
Belgian Player of the Year	Pierre-Antoine Gillet	Filou Oostende	Pierre-Antoine Gillet (Filou Oostende) Jonas Delalieux (Limburg United) Domien Loubry (Kangoeroes)
Rising Star of the Year (Netherlands)	Oshean Brathwaite	BAL	Oshean Brathwaite (BAL) Isaï Sow (Feyenoord) Jibbe Sicking (Apollo Amsterdam)
Rising Star of the Year (Belgium)	Thijs De Ridder	Telenet Giants Antwerp	Jo Van Buggenhout (Kangoeroes Mechelen) Thijs De Ridder (Antwerp Giants) Siebe Ledegen (Okapi Aalst)
Sixth Man of the Year	Thijs De Ridder	Telenet Giants Antwerp	Olivier Troisfontaines (Filou Oostende) Maarten Bouwknecht (ZZ Leiden) Thijs De Ridder (Antwerp Giants)
Defensive Player of the Year	Wen Mukubu	Kangoeroes Mechelen	Chris Ebou N'Dow (Heroes Den Bosch) Jean-Marc Mwema (Antwerp Giants) Wen Mukubu (Kangoeroes)
Coach of the Year (Netherlands)	Doug Spradley	ZZ Leiden	Vincent Van Sliedregt (Aris Leeuwarden) Erik Braal (Heroes Den Bosch) Doug Spradley (ZZ Leiden)
Coach of the Year (Belgium)	Ivica Skelin	Telenet Giants Antwerp	Kristof Michiels (Kangoeroes) Ivica Skelin (Antwerp Giants) Sam Rotsaert (Spirou)
Referee of the Year (Netherlands)	Tijmen Last	–	John Van Dam Tijmen Last Bert Van Slooten
Referee of the Year (Belgium)	Nick Van Den Broeck	–	Renaud Geller Martin Van Hoye Nick Van Den Broeck

The following were the statistical leaders in the 2022–23 regular season.

Category	Player	Team(s)	Statistic
Points per game	Vincent Cole	Yoast United	22.3
Rebounds per game	Arnaldo Toro Barea	Landstede Hammers	12.8
Assists per game	Joshua Heath	Leuven Bears	7.3
Steals per game	Ángel Rodríguez	Liège Basket	3.7
Blocks per game	Kevin Tumba	Liège Basket	1.5
Efficiency per game	Ivan Maraš	Okapi Aalst	25.1
FT%	Terry Deroover	Circus Brussels	93.9%
2P%	Haris Bratanovic	Filou Oostende	76.8%
3P%	Keime Helfrich	Heroes Den Bosch	47.7%

Team	Competition	Progress
Oostende	Champions League	Play-ins
Heroes Den Bosch	Qualifying rounds
FIBA Europe Cup	Second Round
Kangoeroes Mechelen	Regular season
Donar Groningen	Regular season
Antwerp Giants	Regular season
ZZ Leiden	Qualifying rounds

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