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Sports season
1996 NBL season
League
National Basketball League
Sport
Basketball
Duration
12 April – 28 September 1996 3 – 20 October 1996 (Finals) 25 October – 3 November 1996 (Grand Finals)
Number of teams
14
TV partner(s)
Network Ten Fox Sports
Regular season
Season champions
Melbourne Tigers
Season MVP
Andrew Gaze (Melbourne)
Top scorer
Andrew Gaze (Melbourne)
Finals
Champions
South East Melbourne Magic (2nd title)
Runners-up
Melbourne Tigers
Finals MVP
Mike Kelly (South East Melbourne)
NBL seasons
← 1995
1997 →
The 1996 NBL season was the 18th season of competition since its establishment in 1979. A total of 14 teams contest the league.
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returned to the NBL Grand Final in 1996, where they were once again beaten 2–1 by the South East Melbourne Magic. Following the 1996season, the Tigers parted...
with the Philadelphia 76ers in 1996–97. As well as his outstanding play, Bradtke was known in the early part of his NBL career for his mullet haircut....
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ten NBL foundation teams and have won three NBL championships, being successful in the 1985 and 1987 seasons, and again in 2007. They have also competed...
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(MVP) of the NBL All-Star Game in 1996 and 2006. McDonald served as the interim coach for the Melbourne Tigers during the 2011–12 season and returned...
Newcastle Falcons in the 1996NBLseason. After an impressive debut season he would go on to win the NBL's Most Improved Player and the NBL's Sixth Man of the...
the only team in NBL history to win championships in four different decades. Between 1987 and 2021, the Wildcats made the post-season 35 straight years...
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