The
2019
This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year.
Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...
ASEAN Basketball League (ABL) finals was the best-of-5 championship series of the
2018–19 ABL season
The 2018–19 ABL season was the ninth season of competition of the ASEAN Basketball League. The regular season started on 16 November 2018 and ended on 28 March 2019.
Teams
All the teams in 2017–18 season returned for this season. However, ...
and the conclusion of the season's playoffs.
BTN CLS Knights Indonesia and
Singapore Slingers
The Singapore Slingers are a Singaporean professional basketball team that last competed in the ASEAN Basketball League. The Slingers were known as the JobStreet.com Singapore Slingers between 2009 and 2014, due to sponsorship ties with JobSt ...
competed for the 9th championship contested by the league. After a decider game 5,
CLS Knights Indonesia
BTN CLS Knights Indonesia is a basketball club based in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia that plays in the ASEAN Basketball League. Their home games are played at GOR Kertajaya Surabaya.
They dissolved in 2019 to focus on developing their junio ...
eventually clinched the club's first franchise championship in its history, and the second ABL Championship that came from
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...
.
Maxie Esho was named as the Finals MVP.
Background
Head-to-head matchups
This is the first playoff and finals meeting between BTN CLS Knights Indonesia and Singapore Slingers.
Series summary
Game summaries
:''All times local;
UTC+7
UTC+07:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +07:00. In ISO 8601 the associated time would be written as . It is 7 hours ahead of UTC, meaning that when the time in UTC areas is midnight (00:00), the time in UTC+07:00 areas would ...
for Indonesia, and
UTC+8
UTC+08:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +08:00.
It is the most populous time zone in the world, as well as a possible candidate for ASEAN Common Time, mainly due to China's large population, with an estimated population ...
for Singapore.''
Game 1
Game 2
Game 3
Game 4
Game 5
Rosters
Singapore Slingers
BTN CLS Knights Indonesia
References
External links
{{ASEAN Basketball League
2018–19 ABL season