This does not include the NBL championship trophy, which is given to the winning team of the NBL Grand Final. The award winners are typically voted on by league officials and various sportswriters throughout New Zealand, with award announcements made during the post-season.

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NBL Trophy: The NBL’s championship trophy; awarded to the winning team of the Grand Final. Best Team Free Throws (Nial Forsyth Trophy): Awarded to the team with the best free throw percentage during the regular season.

Between 2008 and 2012, a "Finals MVP" was awarded to the best player of the best-of-three championship round (2008–10) and then the best player of the Final Four weekend (2011–12). A "Final Four MVP" was introduced for 2013 and 2014 before a switch back to Finals MVP every year between 2015 and 2018.

The National Basketball League Most Valuable Player (MVP) is an annual National Basketball League (NBL) award given since the 2003 New Zealand NBL season to the best performing player of the regular season. At the end of each season, the player with the most votes is awarded the Most Valuable Player for that season.

Jul 17, 2019 · As we get ready for a massive weekend in Christchurch where the Saints, Hawks, Rams and Sharks will battle it out for championship glory, let's take a look at all the previous winners of the NBL Trophy, dating all the way back to 1981!

Apr 8, 2025 · There was a distinct NBL flavour at last night’s NZNBL Awards, led by former New Zealand Breaker Rob Loe making close to a clean sweep of eligible honours. Loe was named as the competition’s MVP and Defensive Player of the Year, while also earning selection in the competition’s All-Star Five.

The Night ‘n Day Otago Nuggets are the 2022 Sal’s National Basketball League (NBL) Champions defeating the Auckland Tuatara 81-73 at a packed Eventfinda Stadium on Saturday night . The NBL was guaranteed a first-time champion before the game began.

Feb 9, 2023 · Kenneth Tuffin, known as KT among his peers, always looks for the opportunity to set the bar high on and off the court, is a constant in our coaching in schools’ programs, and is a young man who will give it all to see the Saints once again capture the NZNBL trophy in 2023

The winner receives the Alan Bland Memorial Trophy, which is named in honour of Bland, a Wellington native who played for the New Zealand men's national basketball team during the 1960s. [2]