2016–17 Slovenian Basketball League

The 2016–17 Slovenian Basketball League, also known as Liga Nova KBM due to sponsorship reasons,^[1] was the 26th season of the Premier A Slovenian Basketball League.

Liga Nova KBM1
Season	2016–17
Duration	3 October 2016 – 24 May 2017
Teams	12
TV partner(s)	RTV Slovenija Šport TV
Regular season
Top seed	Krka
Season MVP	Igor Tratnik
Relegated	Terme Olimia Podčetrtek LTH Castings Portorož
Finals
Champions	Union Olimpija (16th title)
Runners-up	Rogaška
Semifinalists	Krka Zlatorog Laško
Finals MVP	Devin Oliver
Statistical leaders
Points Duda Sanadze 17.3 Rebounds Jakob Čebašek 8.6 Assists Daniel Vujasinović 8.3
← 2015–16 2017–18 →

Helios Suns were the defending champions. KK Union Olimpija won their 16th national title, defeating KK Rogaška 3–1 in the final.^[2]

Format

The 12 teams of the league play a double-legged round-robin competition where the six first qualified teams will join the playoffs for the title. The four last qualified teams will join the relegation group where the three worst qualified teams will be relegated.^[3]

Teams

Helios

Hopsi

Krka

Primorska

LTH Castings

Podčetrtek

Portorož

Rogaška

Šenčur

Tajfun

Olimpija

Zlatorog

Location of teams in the 2016–17 Slovenian Basketball League

Sixt Primorska was created after the merge of KOŠ Koper and KK Lastovka and occupied the place of this team in the league.

Club	Location	Venue	Capacity
Helios Suns	Domžale	Komunalni center Hall	2,500
Hopsi	Polzela	ŠD Polzela	1,800
Krka	Novo Mesto	ŠD Leona Štuklja	2,500
LTH Castings	Škofja Loka	ŠD Poden	500
Portorož	Lucija	ŠD Lucija	750
Rogaška	Rogaška Slatina	ŠD Rogaška Slatina	800
Šenčur	Šenčur	ŠD Šenčur	800
Sixt Primorska	Koper	OŠ Koper Hall	660
Tajfun	Šentjur	Dvorana OŠ Hruševec	700
Terme Olimia Podčetrtek	Podčetrtek	ŠD Podcetrtek
Union Olimpija	Ljubljana	Arena Stožice	12,500
Zlatorog Laško	Laško	Tri Lilije Hall	2,500

	Teams that play in the 2016–17 Adriatic League
	Teams that play in the 2016–17 Alpe Adria Cup

Personnel and kits

Team	President	Coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Helios Suns	Aleš Klavžar	Dejan Čikić	Luka Vončina	Spalding	Helios
Hopsi Polzela	Igor Pungartnik	Boštjan Kuhar	Uroš Godler	Macron	–
Krka	Brane Kastelec	Simon Petrov	Matej Rojc	Žolna Šport	Krka
LTH Castings	Janez Gaber	Rade Mijanović	Sandi Grubelič	Peak	LTH Castings/Aktiva skupina
Portorož	Bojan Kocjančič	Konstantin Subotić	Boban Vuković	Peak	Splošna plovba
Rogaška	Kristijan Novak	Damjan Novaković	Tadej Ferme	Luanvi	–
Šenčur	Janko Sekne	Gregor Vodenik	Štefan Kosec	Macron	Gorenjska gradbena družba
Sixt Primorska	Bojan Čad	Aleksander Sekulić	Vjekoslav Petrović	Errea	Sixt
Tajfun	Iztok Špan	Jurica Golemac	Milan Sebič	Spalding	Tajfun
Terme Olimia Podčetrtek	Darko Šket	Andrej Žakelj	Boštjan Trupaj	Peak	Terme Olimia
Union Olimpija	Jani Möderndorfer	Gašper Okorn	Mirko Mulalić	Macron	Pivovarna Union
Zlatorog Laško	Miro Firm	Aleš Pipan	Matej Krušič	Luanvi	Pivovarna Laško

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Krka	Vladimir Anzulović	End of contract	–	Pre-season	Dejan Mihevc	8 June 2016[4]
LTH Castings	Aleksander Sekulić		–		Tomaž Fartek	2 September 2016[5]
Primorska	Andrej Žakelj		–		Aleksander Sekulić	19 August 2016[6]
Tajfun	Dejan Mihevc		–		Krešimir Bašić	9 July 2016[7]
Union Olimpija	Gašper Potočnik	Mutual consent	29 June 2016[8]		Gašper Okorn	11 August 2016[9]
Tajfun	Krešimir Bašić	Sacked	18 October 2016[10]	11th (0–2)	Jurica Golemac	23 October 2016[11]
LTH Castings	Tomaž Fartek	Mutual consent	27 October 2016[12]	12th (0–3)	Rade Mijanović	28 October 2016[13]
Terme Olimia Podčetrtek	Boris Zrinski	Mutual consent	23 December 2016[14]	11th (1–10)	Andrej Žakelj	29 December 2016[15]
Helios Suns	Jakša Vulić	Mutual consent	30 January 2017[16]	6th (9–5)	Dejan Čikić	30 January 2017
Krka	Dejan Mihevc	Sacked	26 February 2017[17]	2nd (15–3)	Simon Petrov	26 February 2017
Šenčur	Ernest Novak	Mutual consent	27 February 2017[18]	9th (6–13)	Gregor Vodenik	2 March 2017[19]

Regular season

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Krka	22	18	4	1830	1573	+257	40	Qualification to the group for the title
2	Union Olimpija	22	18	4	1836	1649	+187	40
3	Zlatorog Laško	22	17	5	1745	1558	+187	39
4	Hopsi Polzela	22	15	7	1740	1635	+105	37
5	Helios Suns	22	13	9	1619	1504	+115	35
6	Rogaška	22	12	10	1740	1571	+169	34
7	Sixt Primorska	22	12	10	1742	1601	+141	34	Qualification to the relegation group
8	Tajfun	22	10	12	1520	1569	−49	32
9	Šenčur	22	7	15	1617	1706	−89	29
10	Terme Olimia Podčetrtek	22	6	16	1577	1654	−77	28
11	LTH Castings	22	3	19	1464	1910	−446	25
12	Portorož	22	1	21	1440	1940	−500	23

Source: KZS.si

Second stage

Group for the title

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Krka	10	8	2	776	703	+73	18	Qualification to the playoffs
2	Rogaška	10	7	3	727	715	+12	17
3	Zlatorog Laško	10	5	5	740	738	+2	15
4	Union Olimpija	10	5	5	792	748	+44	15
5	Hopsi Polzela	10	4	6	710	745	−35	14
6	Helios Suns	10	1	9	673	769	−96	11

Source: KZS.si

Relegation group

Results of the first stage between teams involved counted for this stage.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Relegation
1	Sixt Primorska	20	17	3	1661	1351	+310	37
2	Tajfun	20	14	6	1573	1329	+244	34
3	Šenčur	20	12	8	1562	1456	+106	32
4	Terme Olimia Podčetrtek	20	10	10	1508	1418	+90	30	Relegated
5	LTH Castings	20	6	14	1381	1622	−241	26
6	Portorož	20	1	19	1229	1738	−509	21

Source: KZS.si

Playoffs

The Playoffs began on Saturday, May 5, 2017 and concluded at May 24, 2017.

	Semifinals					Finals
	1	Krka	0
	4	Union Olimpija	2
						2	Rogaška	1
						4	Union Olimpija	3
	2	Rogaška	2
	3	Zlatorog Laško	1

Slovenian League 2016–17 Champions
Union Olimpija 16th title

Awards

Regular Season MVP

• Jakob Čebašek (Hopsi)

Season MVP

• Igor Tratnik (Zlatorog)

Finals MVP

• Devin Oliver (Union Olimpija)

Weekly MVP

Regular season Week MVP[20] Club Efficiency 1 Urban Durnik Zlatorog 26 2 Nikola Gajić Primorska 30 3 Igor Tratnik Zlatorog 35 4 Brandon Jefferson Union Olimpija 29 5 Victor Robbins LTH Castings 30 6 Tomaž Bolčina Helios Suns 30 7 Miha Fon Rogaška 31 8 Tadej Ferme Rogaška 31 9 Jakob Čebašek Hopsi 38 10 Daniel Vujasinović Tajfun 35 11 Taylor Johns Rogaška 29 12 Nejc Zupan Primorska 31 13 Devin Oliver Union Olimpija 33 14 Dražen Bubnić Union Olimpija 35 15 Jakob Čebašek (2) Hopsi 27 16 Brandon Jefferson (2) Union Olimpija 30 17 Gregor Hrovat Union Olimpija 34 18 Jure Pelko Union Olimpija 25 19 Jan Rebec LTH Castings 26 20 Jan Barbarič Union Olimpija 33 21 Devin Oliver (2) Union Olimpija 30 22 Devin Oliver (3) Union Olimpija 30

Second round Week MVP[21] Club Efficiency 1 Devin Oliver Union Olimpija 21 2 Matic Rebec Krka 23 3 Devin Oliver (2) Union Olimpija 39 4 c Igor Tratnik Zlatorog 23 Jan Špan Zlatorog 23 5 Darwin Davis Rogaška 28 6 Žiga Dimec Krka 23 7 c Ron Curry Krka 28 Igor Tratnik (2) Zlatorog 28 8 Dominique Elliott Krka 24 9 Devin Oliver (3) Union Olimpija 28 10 Gregor Hrovat Union Olimpija 30 Note ^c – Co-MVP's were announced.

Statistical leaders

Performance Index Rating Pos Player Club PIR 1 Igor Tratnik Zlatorog 19.45 2 Devin Oliver Union Olimpija 19.29 3 Jakob Čebašek Hopsi Polzela 18.63

Points Pos Player Club PPG 1 Duda Sanadze Primorska 17.32 2 Igor Tratnik Zlatorog 16.93 3 Darwin Davis Rogaška 16.40

Rebounds Pos Player Club RPG 1 Jakob Čebašek Hopsi Polzela 8.63 2 Taylor Johns Rogaška 8.26 3 Khaliq Spicer Tajfun 7.61

Assists Pos Player Club APG 1 Daniel Vujasinović Tajfun 8.29 2 Jure Močnik Helios Suns 6.12 3 Darwin Davis Rogaška 5.03