| Colour1: | Yellow |
| Colour2: | Red |
| Colour3: | Black |
| Saigon Heat | |
| Leagues: | Vietnam Basketball Association |
| Founded: | 2016 |
| Arena: | CIS Arena |
| Capacity: | 2,500 |
| Location: | Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam |
| Colours: | Red, Yellow, Black |
| President: | Connor Nguyen |
| Coach: | Matthew Van Pelt |
| Championships: | 5 (2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024) |
| Website: | vba.vn/heat |
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The Saigon Heat is a Vietnamese professional basketball team based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam founded in 2016. It is the developmental team of the Saigon Heat. The team currently competes in the Vietnam Basketball Association, Vietnam's first professional basketball league.[1]
Following the completion of the 2015–16 season, the Heat announced the formation of Vietnam's first professional basketball league, the Vietnam Basketball Association, where they would field a developmental team. The Heat VBA team consists of local players, with several of the ABL side's players being distributed among the other VBA teams for league parity.In 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2023 they became the first team to win 4 consecutive Vietnam Basketball Association championship series.
| Season | Coach | Regular Season | Post Season | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Won | Lost | Win % | Finish | Won | Lost | Win % | Result | |||
| 2016 | Tony Garbelotto | 11 | 5 | .688 | 1st | 0 | 2 | .000 | Semi-finals | |
| 2017 | David Singleton | 9 | 6 | .600 | 2nd | 0 | 2 | .000 | Semi-finals | |
| 2018 | David Singleton | 9 | 6 | .600 | 4th | 0 | 2 | .000 | Semi-finals | |
| 2019 | David Singleton | 9 | 6 | .600 | 2nd | 5 | 2 | .714 | League Champions | |
| 2020 | Kevin Yurkus | 10 | 2 | .833 | 1st | 5 | 1 | .833 | League Champions | |
| 2021 | Matthew Van Pelt | 8 | 1 | .888 | 1st | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | Quarterfinals; Season cut short due to COVID-19 | |
| 2022 | Matthew Van Pelt | 9 | 3 | .750 | 1st | 5 | 0 | 1.000 | League Champions | |
| 2023 | Matthew Van Pelt | 14 | 4 | .778 | 1st | 5 | 1 | .833 | League Champions | |
| 2024 | David Grice | 15 | 5 | .750 | 1st | 5 | 0 | 1.000 | League Champions | |
| Totals | 94 | 38 | .712 | 26 | 10 | .722 | 5 League Championships | |||