1974–75 National Basketball League season

1974–75 National Basketball League season National Basketball League Basketball 10 Roll of Honour National League Islington Embassy All-Stars Sutton & Crystal Palace National Cup Islington Embassy All-Stars Sutton & Crystal Palace List of English National Basketball League seasons National Basketball League 1973–74 1975–76 The 1974–75 Clarks Men's Shoes National Basketball League season was the third season of the recently formulated National Basketball League.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 Clarks Men's Shoes and the number of teams increased again from eight to ten. Three new teams appeared in the form of Coventry Granwood, Exeter St Lukes and Cleveland StrongArm but Liverpool did not take part. The Islington Embassy All-Stars team (devoid of the London Latvian merger) completed the double of National League and Cup. There were no playoffs for the League during this era.Sports Shorts Harrow Observer 4 April 1975 21 October 2022 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002512/19750404/745/0035 British Newspaper Archive subscription League standings Pos Team P W L F A Pts 1 Islington Embassy All-Stars 18 17 1 1799 1458 352 Sutton & Crystal Palace 18 16 2 1606 1407 343 Doncaster Wilson Panthers 18 11 7 1473 1393 294 Avenue (Edmonton) 18 10 8 1413 1472 285 Coventry Granwood 18 8 10 1490 1457 266 London YMCA Metros 18 8 10 1498 1503 267 Loughborough All-Stars 18 8 10 1446 1402 268 Manchester ATS Giants 18 7 11 1359 1352 259 Exeter St Lukes 18 3 15 1344 1628 2110 Cleveland StrongArm 18 2 16 1439 1795 20 Clarks Men's Shoes National Cup Final #eee 5 April 1975 Islington Embassy All-Stars 82 81 Sutton & Crystal Palace Pete Sprogis 36, Dave Shelley ??, Steve Schmidt ??, Nigel Acres ??, Stuart Turpie ?? Jim Guymon ??, Ian Day ??, Mike Stewart ??, Martin Hall ??, Bob Mackay ?? Wembley Empire Pool 5,000 Leading scorers Player Team Pts Steve Schmitt Embassy All-Stars 530 Peter Sprogis Embassy All-Stars 506 Jim Guymon Sutton & Crystal Palace 501 Bob Howell Coventry 446 Mike Dudfield Exeter 440 Ricky Cassey Doncaster 410 Steve Latham Manchester 382 Richard Pearce Loughborough 344 Rick Mann Avenue 328 Carl Olsson Loughborough 327 See also Basketball in England British Basketball League English Basketball League List of English National Basketball League seasons References British Category:National Basketball League (England) seasons