2020–21 NBA G League season

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2020–21 NBA G League season
League NBA G League
Sport Basketball
Duration February 9 – March 11, 2021
Number of teams 18
Draft
Top draft pick Admiral Schofield[1]
Picked by Greensboro Swarm
Regular season
Top seed Raptors 905
Season MVP Paul Reed (Delaware)
Finals champions Lakeland Magic
  Runners-up Delaware Blue Coats
Finals MVP Devin Cannady (Lakeland)
NBA G League seasons

The 2020–21 NBA G League season was the 20th season of the NBA G League, the official minor league basketball organization owned by the National Basketball Association (NBA). The season was indefinitely postponed following the previous season's cessation amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The league used the same type of isolation season as the 2020 NBA Bubble with all games at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Bay Lake, Florida. Only 17 of the 28 teams from the previous season, plus the new NBA G League Ignite development team, chose to participate.

League changes

In December 2019, NBA commissioner Adam Silver announced that the Capitanes de Ciudad de México of the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional would be joining the G League in the 2020–21 season on a five-year agreement.[2] The 2019–20 season was then curtailed by the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic and all remaining games after March 12, 2020, and the playoffs were cancelled.

On July 9, 2020, the Phoenix Suns announced they were relocating their G League franchise, the Northern Arizona Suns, from the Prescott Valley to the Phoenix area for the 2020–21 season[3] and subsequently sold the franchise to the Detroit Pistons.[4] The Pistons plan to move the team to Detroit in the 2021–22 season under the name Motor City Cruise.[5] The New Orleans Pelicans launched a name-the-team contest for their upcoming team in Birmingham.[6]

During the constantly changing restrictions amid the pandemic, no announcements for the 2020–21 season were made by the league or the NBA. The NBA season began in December 2020. It was rumored that all games for the G League season would take place in a bubble similar to the 2020 NBA Bubble in either Atlanta, Georgia, or outside Orlando, Florida, with several teams likely to opt out,[7] but that the NBA G League Ignite prospects team would be joining.[8][9] The bubble season was confirmed by the league on January 8, 2021, to start in February at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World in Bay Lake, Florida. Eleven teams opted out of the season: the Capital City Go-Go, College Park Skyhawks, Grand Rapids Drive, Maine Red Claws, Northern Arizona Suns, Sioux Falls SkyForce, South Bay Lakers, Stockton Kings, Texas Legends, Windy City Bulls, and Wisconsin Herd.[10] The Capitanes de Ciudad de México also announced they would postpone their first season in the league until 2021–22.[11]

The schedule was announced on January 27 with the 18 teams each playing 15 regular season games between February 9 and March 6. There is no conference or divisional alignment in the bubble and the top eight teams play a single-elimination playoff from March 8 through the championship game on March 11.[12]

Other changes

This season was last for Spalding as the G League's official ball supplier, as on May 14, 2020, the NBA announced a multi-year partnership with Wilson as the manufacturer and supplier of G League game balls, beginning in the 2021–22 season.[13] Spalding started supplying basketballs for the league in 2001, when it began as the National Basketball Development League (NBDL).[14]

Regular season

Pos Team W L PCT GB
1 y – Raptors 905 (TOR) 12 3 .800 —
2 x – Santa Cruz Warriors (GSW) 11 4 .733 1
3 x – Erie BayHawks (NO) 11 4 .733 1
4 x – Delaware Blue Coats (PHI) 10 5 .667 2
5 x – Austin Spurs (SAS) 10 5 .667 2
6 x – Lakeland Magic (ORL) 9 6 .600 3
7 x – Rio Grande Valley Vipers (HOU) 9 6 .600 3
8 x – NBA G League Ignite 8 7 .533 4
9 Oklahoma City Blue (OKC) 8 7 .533 4
10 Long Island Nets (BKN) 7 8 .467 5
11 Westchester Knicks (NYK) 7 8 .467 5
12 Memphis Hustle (MEM) 6 9 .400 6
13 Fort Wayne Mad Ants (IND) 6 9 .400 6
14 Canton Charge (CLE) 5 10 .333 7
15 Greensboro Swarm (CHA) 5 10 .333 7
16 Agua Caliente Clippers (LAC) 5 10 .333 7
17 Salt Lake City Stars (UTA) 4 11 .267 8
18 Iowa Wolves (MIN) 2 13 .133 10
Source: GLeague.NBA.com
Rules for classification:
x – Qualified for playoffs; y – Clinched top seed.

Playoffs

As of March 9, 2021.

Quarterfinals
March 8		 Semifinals
March 9		 Championship
March 11
                 
1 Raptors 905 127
8 Ignite 102
1 Raptors 905 100
4 Delaware Blue Coats 127
4 Delaware Blue Coats 124
5 Austin Spurs 103
4 Delaware Blue Coats 78
6 Lakeland Magic 97
2 Santa Cruz Warriors 110
7 Rio Grande Valley Vipers 81
2 Santa Cruz Warriors 96
6 Lakeland Magic 108
3 Erie BayHawks 110
6 Lakeland Magic 139

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