2002–03 ABA Goodyear League

2002–03 ABA Goodyear League season ABA Goodyear League Basketball 132px (4 teams) (3 teams) (3 teams) (1 team) (1 team) Regular season Serbia and Montenegro Crvena zvezda USA Kenyan Weaks (Pivovarna Laško) USA Kenyan Weaks (Pivovarna Laško) (20.14 ppg) Final 4 NLB League#Champions Croatia Zadar NLB League#Champions ABA Goodyear League 2001–02 ABA Goodyear League 2001–02 2003–04 ABA Goodyear League 2003–04 12 teams from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Israel, Slovenia, and FR Yugoslavia participated in Goodyear League in its second season: Union Olimpija, Krka, Pivovarna Laško, Cibona VIP, Zadar, Zagreb, Split Croatia Osiguranje, FEAL Široki, Bosna ASA, Borac Nektar, Maccabi Tel Aviv, and Crvena zvezda. There were 22 rounds played in the regular part of the season, best four teams qualified for the Final Four Tournament which was played in Ljubljana since April 3 until April 5, 2003. According to the original plan the Final Tournament was to be played in Tel Aviv, but due to the deteriorating security situation there at that time, the tournament got moved to Ljubljana. Crvena Zvezda finished top of the table in regular season, although the club didn't play its last round match against Maccabi, since the Israeli club didn't travel to Belgrade due to the state of emergency proclaimed following the March 2003 assassination of Serbian prime minister Zoran Đinđić. ABA awarded the game to Crvena Zvezda. In first match in Tel Aviv Crvena Zvezda defeated Maccabi. Zadar became the 2003 Goodyear League champion.Adriatic League History, adriaticbasket.info Regular season main WL QR p CRV Crvena zvezda MAC Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv UNI Union Olimpija ZAD Zadar CIB Cibona VIP ZAG Zagreb KRK Krka PIV Pivovarna Laško FEA FEAL Široki SPL Split CO BOR Borac Nektar BOS Bosna ASA 17 5 1828 1648 17 5 1887 1629 17 5 1812 1647 14 8 1963 1891 13 9 1808 1695 11 11 1758 1861 11 11 1806 1738 9 13 1717 1784 9 13 1745 1773 7 15 1747 1877 6 16 1824 1902 1 21 1662 2112 #ddffdd Qualified for Final four Q Q Q Q #ffdddd Relegated R complete Final four Matches played at Hala Tivoli, Ljubljana SemifinalsApril 3. FinalApril 5. 35 200 1 Crvena zvezda 77 4 Zadar 78 2 Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv 82 3 Union Olimpija 76 4 Zadar 91 2 Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv 88 2002–03 ABA Godyear League Champions Zadar 1st Stats leaders Ranking MVP RankNameTeamEfficiencyGamesAverage1.USA Kenyan WeaksSLO Pivovarna Laško4032119.192.SCG Dragan Aleksić BIH Borac Nektar3511918.473.USA Jamie Arnold SLO Krka3311818.394.HRV Marko Popović HRV Zadar3892217.685.CRO Gordan ZadravecBIH FEAL Široki3682117.52 Points RankNameTeamPointsGamesPPG1.USA Kenyan WeaksSLO Pivovarna Laško4202120.002.SCG Dragan Aleksić BIH Borac Nektar3751919.743.CRO Gordan ZadravecBIH FEAL Široki4972119.384.USA Jamie Arnold SLO Krka3321818.445.HRV Marko Popović HRV Zadar3942217.91 Rebounds RankNameTeamReboundsGamesRPG1.HRV Andrija ŽižićHRV Split CO148188.222.HRV Nikša TarleBIH Bosna ASA158207.903.HRV Hrvoje PerinčićHRV Zadar149217.104.USA Jamie Arnold SLO Krka125186.945.BIH Haris MujezinovićHRV Cibona VIP129196.79 Assists {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |- !Rank !width="175"|Name !width="150"|Team !width="60"|Assists !width="60"|Games !width="60"|APG |- |1.||align="left"|HRV Ivan Tomas||align="left"|HRV Zagreb||128||22||5.82 |- |2.||align="left"|HRV Marko Popović ||align="left"|HRV Zadar||104||22||4.73 |- |3.||align="left"|SCG Dragan Aleksić ||align="left"|BIH Borac Nektar||89||19||4.68 |- |4.||align="left"|HRV Mladen Erjavec||align="left"|HRV Zadar||106||23||4.61 |- |5.||align="left"|USA Scoonie Penn||align="left"|SCG Crvena zvezda||88||22||4.00 |- https://archive.today/20130116055705/http://www.abaliga.com/n67/Statistics/Individual_Statistics Adriatic League References External links 2002–03 Category:2002–03 in European basketball leagues Category:2002–03 in Serbian basketball Category:2002–03 in Slovenian basketball Category:2002–03 in Croatian basketball Category:2002–03 in Bosnia and Herzegovina basketball Category:2002–03 in Israeli basketball