1982–83 National Basketball League season

1982–83 National Basketball League season National Basketball League Basketball 13 Roll of Honour National League Crystal Palace Supersonics Sunderland Play Off's Sunderland Crystal Palace Supersonics National Cup Solent Stars Birmingham Barrett Bullets List of English National Basketball League seasons National Basketball League 1981–82 1983–84 The 1982–83 Just Juice National Basketball League season was the eleventh season of the National Basketball League formed in 1972.Matthews & Morrison Peter & Ian The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records & Results 1987 Guinness Superlatives Ltd 0-85112-492-5 registration https://archive.org/details/guinnessencyclop00matt The league was sponsored by Just Juice for the second consecutive year and Crystal Palace won yet another league title but Sunderland claimed the Play Off's and the Solent Stars successfully defended their National Cup crown.https://www.basketballengland.co.uk/fixtures-and-results/national-league-archive/senior-men-league Men's Senior League Winners Basketball EnglandAugust 2019 InternetArchiveBot yes The league received a welcome boost when a new national TV channel called Channel 4 decided to show live action every Monday evening. Team changes Leicester returned to top tier action as the one new team admitted to the expanded 13 team first division which retained the previous twelve members. Team Talbot, Guildford Pirates moved to Bracknell and became the Bracknell Pirates. Sunderland Saints became Sunderland Maestros towards the end of the season following a new two year sponsorship deal with a North East car dealer. The leagues most famous player Alton Byrd left Crystal Palace to join Murray International Edinburgh. League standings First Division Pos Team P W L F A Pts 1 Crystal Palace Supersonics 24 21 3 2083 1850 422 Sunderland Saints/Maestros 24 18 6 2323 2024 363 Ovaltine Hemel Hempstead 24 18 6 2169 1938 364 Birmingham Barrett Bullets 24 17 7 2465 2226 345 Solent Stars 24 16 8 2383 2068 326 Planters Leicester 24 16 8 2176 1972 327 TCB Brighton Bears 24 13 11 2216 2207 268 John Carr Doncaster 24 12 12 2115 2129 249 Club Cantabrica Kingston 24 10 14 2033 2057 2010 Warrington Lada Vikings 24 7 17 1971 2115 1411 Manchester Giants 24 4 20 2038 2464 812 Bracknell Pirates 24 3 21 1988 2335 613 Wakewood Liverpool 24 1 23 1889 2464 2 Second Division Pos Team P W L F A Pts 1 Fine Ceramics Bolton 22 21 1 2157 1693 422 West Bromwich 22 20 2 2600 1818 403 Team Telecom Colchester 22 17 5 1835 1621 344 Newcastle 22 12 10 2064 1980 245 Crestol Halifax Hawks 22 11 11 2014 1896 226 Brunel Uxbridge Ducks 22 11 11 2050 1882 227 McEwan Gateshead 22 11 11 1873 1870 228 Watford Royals 22 8 14 1846 2059 169 Ashfield Glass Nottingham 22 8 14 1868 2028 1610 Bradford Mythbreakers 22 6 16 2005 2169 1211 Camden & Hampstead 22 5 17 1792 1984 1012 Milton Keynes 22 2 20 1526 2630 4 Just Juice playoffs Semi-finals venue & date Team 1 Team 2 Score March 18, Wembley Arena Sunderland Saints/Maestros Ovaltine Hemel Hempstead 76-74 March 18, Wembley Arena Crystal Palace Supersonics Birmingham Barrett Bullets 72-67 Final Paul Stimpson landed a basket for the Crystal Palace Supersonics which was adjudged to be just after the buzzer. It would have won the game for Palace but the game went into overtime and Sunderland won an incredible match. #eee 19 Marchhttp://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=oxfshlib&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS319392885&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0 Nicholas Harling. "Haefner a natural successor." Times [London, England] 21 Mar. 1983 The Times Digital Archive Sunderland Maestros 75 74 aet Crystal Palace Supersonics Art Wearren 29, James McCauley 16, Jim Brandon 16, Ken Nottage, Clive Hartley Greg McCray 20, Dave Shutts 16, Pete Jeremich 12, Dan Lloyd 12, Paul Stimpson 10 Wembley Arena 9,000Sunderland Coach Tom Becker Palace Coach Danny Palmer Asda National Cup Second round Team 1 Team 2 Score Fine Ceramics Bolton Club Cantabrica Kingston 81-93 Crystal Palace Supersonics West Bromwich 98-69 Sunderland Saints TCB Brighton Bears 96-90 Planters Leicester John Carr Doncaster 71-57 Solent Stars Crestol Halifax Hawks 130-66 Camden & Hampstead McEwan Gateshead 83-72 Bradford Mythbreakers Birmingham Barrett Bullets 69-134 Quarter-finals Team 1 Team 2 Score Birmingham Barrett Bullets Planters Leicester 89-87 Club Cantabrica Kingston Sunderland Saints 97-88 Ovaltine Hemel Hempstead Crystal Palace Supersonics 81-84 Camden & Hampstead Solent Stars 58-119 Semi-finals Leg Team 1 Team 2 Score First Leg Crystal Palace Supersonics Solent Stars 92-84 Second Leg Solent Stars Crystal Palace Supersonics 83-65 First Leg Club Cantabrica Kingston Birmingham Barrett Bullets 70-83 Second Leg Birmingham Barrett Bullets Club Cantabrica Kingston 80-86 Final Birmingham's Russ Saunders an imported American scored a record 43 points in a final but still found himself on the losing side.#eee 24 January 1983http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=oxfshlib&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS353602617&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0 Nicholas Harling. "Solent stage another escape." Times [London, England] 25 Jan. 1983 The Times Digital Archive Solent Stars 98 97 Birmingham Barrett Bullets TJ Robinson 33, Tony Walton 29, Mark Saiers 12, Karl Tatham 12, Paul Philp 4, Ken Watson 4, Roy Lewis 4 Russ Saunders 43, Greg White 22, Dip Donaldson 11 Granby Halls, Leicester ? Solent Coach Steve Fitzsimmons Birmingham Coach Greg White Live on Channel 4 References See also Basketball in England British Basketball League English Basketball League List of English National Basketball League seasons Category:National Basketball League (England) seasons British