| 2020 TBL season | |
| League: | TBL |
| Sport: | Basketball |
| Pixels: | 200px |
| Season: | Regular season |
| Top Seed: | Indy Express |
| Mvp: | Corey Taite |
| Seasonslist: | List of The Basketball League yearly standings |
| Seasonslistnames: | TBL |
| Prevseason Link: | 2019 TBL season |
| Prevseason Year: | 2019 |
| Nextseason Link: | 2021 TBL season |
| Nextseason Year: | 2021 |
The 2020 TBL season is the third season of The Basketball League (TBL). In March 18, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the season was cancelled without completion.
On June 29, 2019, league CEO Evelyn Magley announced Kayla Crosby as the director of team development for approving new teams. Crosby is the owner and founder of the Jamestown Jackals.[1]
It was announced that the Albany Patroons had been sold to new ownership.[2] The Yakima SunKings were not included as 2020 member and the Mesquite Desert Dogs withdrew due to the travel constraints as the only remaining west coast team.
The league also added the Columbus Condors, Dayton Flight, Dallas Skyline, Gulf Coast Lions, Indy Express, Lewisville Yellow Jackets, and the Tri-State Admirals as expansion teams.[3] [4] The TBL added the Gulf Coast Lions, based in the Bradenton/Sarasota area, as the league's seventh new team for the 2020 season. The San Diego Waves were replaced by expansion San Diego Armada while the Waves were being relocated, but neither team would make the 2020 schedule.[5]
Final standings:[6]
| Team | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 2 | |||
| 8 | 3 | |||
| 7 | 3 | |||
| 9 | 4 | |||
| 6 | 3 | |||
| 6 | 3 | |||
| 4 | 4 | |||
| 6 | 7 | |||
| 4 | 7 | |||
| 2 | 8 | |||
| 1 | 9 | |||
| 1 | 10 |
All-TBL Awards 2020:[7]
Player of the Year: Corey Taite (Tri-State Admirals)
Guard of the Year: Corey Taite (Tri-State Admirals)
Forward of the Year: Ricardo Artis III (Dallas Skyline)
Center of the Year: Terry Maston (Dallas Skyline)
PG: Corey Taite (Tri-State Admirals)
PG: Daylon Guy (Dallas Skyline)
SG: Bassel Harfouch (Tampa Bay Titans)
F: Ricardo Artis III (Dallas Skyline)
F/C: Terry Maston (Dallas Skyline)
G: Shadell Millinghaus (Albany Patroons)
G: Joe Retic (Indy Express)
G: Andy Bosley (Columbus Condors)
G/F: Robert Vaden (Indy Express)
F/C: Anthony-Moe (Albany Patroons)
PG: Taishaun Johnson (Dayton Flight)
PG: Micheal Lenoir (Lewisville Yellow Jackets)
G/F: Davon Hayes (Owensboro Thoroughbreds)
F: Balsa Bazovic (Lewisville Yellow Jackets[8])
F: James Currington (Tri-State Admirals)
The 2020 player draft for the league was held on December 8, 2019. The first overall TBL selection Rahim Williams was taken by Gulf Coast Lions.[9]
Although some of the players chosen in the draft had played semi-professional or professional basketball after college graduation, only the United States colleges they attended are listed.
| Pos. | G | F | C | |
| Position | Guard | Forward | Center |
| Round | Pick | Player | Position | Nationality | Team | College | Year graduated | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Rahim Williams | G | Gulf Coast Lions | Shaw University | 2018 | ||
| 1 | 2 | Kris Bell | F | Tampa Bay Titans | Fort Valley State University | 2017 | ||
| 1 | 3 | Lloyd Burgess | C | Lewisville Yellow Jackets | UNC-Greensboro | 2019 | ||
| 1 | 4 | Filip Serwatka | F | Owensboro Thoroughbreds | Fort Wayne | 2019 | ||
| 1 | 5 | Chandler Levingston Simon | F | Tri-State Admirals | 2018 | |||
| 1 | 6 | Xavier Keeling | F | Indiana | 2011 | |||
| 1 | 7 | Tyrone Marshall | C | Jamestown Jackals | 2015 | |||
| 1 | 8 | Jalen Mitchell | SF | Dallas Skyline | 2019 | |||
| 1 | 9 | Zavier Turner | PG | Indy Express | Manhattan College | 2018 | ||
| 1 | 10 | Damon Garrett | SG | Raleigh Firebirds | Portland University | 2018 | ||
| 1 | 11 | Tevin Farris | F | Columbus Condors | Arkansas Baptist College | 2019 | ||
| 1 | 12 | Rob Shaw | PG | Albany Patroons | Chicago State University | 2019 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Deverell Biggs | G | Albany Patroons | Texas Southern University | 2015 | ||
| 2 | 2 | Derrod Blakey | F | Columbus Condors | Central State University | 2015 | ||
| 2 | 3 | Justin Vaughan | G | Raleigh Firebirds | Roberts Wesleyan University | 2019 | ||
| 2 | 4 | Davone Daniels | SG | Indy Express | Central State University | 2018 | ||
| 2 | 5 | Joshua Keyes | F | Dallas Skyline | Muskingum University | 2017 | ||
| 2 | 6 | Larry Bush | G | Jamestown Jackals | University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo | 2019 | ||
| 2 | 7 | Brandon Berry | G | Dayton Flight | Lindsey Wilson College | 2017 | ||
| 2 | 8 | Corey Taite | PG | Tri-State Admirals | Goldey–Beacom College | 2019 | ||
| 2 | 9 | Joel Anderson | G | Owensboro Thoroughbreds | Eastern Oregon University | 2019 | ||
| 2 | 10 | Shawn Duhon | F | Lewisville Yellow Jackets | Bluefield State University | 2019 | ||
| 2 | 11 | Aluk Adub | F | Tampa Bay Titans | Florida Memorial University | 2019 | ||
| 2 | 12 | Jamal Gaines | G | Gulf Coast Lions | Bethune–Cookman University | 2019 |