2010 KBL Draft Results

July 24th, 2010

The South Korean basketball league (KBL) is an interesting one. Much like the Chinese Basketball Association, it is interesting for three main reasons;

1) It’s full of import players that you’ve heard of,

2) The domestic players’ talent level is pretty bad,

3) The import players’ talent level is pretty good.

This leads to huge statistics from players that you’ve heard of. And that can never be bad.

The KBL employs a draft process for its import players that …

2010 KBL Pre-Draft Pool

June 17th, 2010

The South Korean basketball league [KBL] is a relatively new league, only thirteen years in existence, that unashamedly focuses on Korean national players. Part of that means heavily restricting the amount of imports that so heavily permeate all the other leagues around the world. Teams are allowed only two imports, and unlike in some other countries, dual citizenship is very hard to come by.

It also has some quirky rules. Each team is allowed two foreign players, but in the …

Basketball in South Korea has some interesting rules

August 12th, 2009

The South Korean basketball league [KBL] has some quirky rules. It’s a relatively new league, only ten years in existence, that unashamedly focuses on Korean national players. Part of that means heavily restricting the amount of Big Foreign Americans™ that so heavily permeate all the other leagues around the world.

A few years ago, the KBL had a rule that barred any players standing 6’8 and above. What the intended purpose of that was, I don’t know, but presumably they …