Basketball Bundesliga (1997-1998)
1996-97
1998-99
Basketball Bundesliga 1997-98
Champion: ALBA Berlin
Regular Season Champion: ALBA Berlin
DBB Pokal Winner: TVG HerzogTel Trier
League & & All-Star Game MVP & Import POY: Wendell Alexis
Top Scorer: Keith Gatlin (23.3)
Dunk Contest Winner: Olumide Oyedeji
3PT Contest Winnerr: Derrick Taylor
Coach of the Year: Svetislav Pesic
All-Star Game: National - International 126-140
Players / Stats
League History
Quarterfinals Semis Final 1998 Semis Quarterfinals
ALBA Berlin4
Leverkusen0
Trier4
Rhoendorf1
ALBA Berlin3
Trier0
ALBA Berlin3
UNICS Kazan0
Bamberg2
UNICS Kazan3
Bamberg4
Braunschweig1
Telekom Bsk1
UNICS Kazan4
Basketball Bundesliga Final Series: ALBA Berlin - UNICS Kazan (3-0)

ALBA Berlin (Svetislav Pesic): Wendell Alexis, Henning Harnisch, Vladimir Bogojevic, Henrik Roedl, Christian Welp, Marko Pesic, Vasiliy Karasev, Stephen Arigbabu, Geert Hammink, Teoman Ozturk, Jorg Lutcke, Mithat Demirel
UNICS Kazan: Igor Legonkov, Denis Darin, Igor Udatchin, Andrei Markelov

DBB Pokal Final: TVG HerzogTel Trier - TV Tatami Rhoendorf 97-88

TVG HerzogTel Trier: George Devone, James Marsh, Silas Cheung, Bernard Thompson, Marc Suhr, Malik Ruddigkeit, Frank Baum, Joern Patzak, Ralf Kohr, Niels Bjerregaard, Olaf Moller, Carl Brown
TV Tatami Rhoendorf: Michael Wichterich, Alex Holzschneider, Thomas Deuster, Carsten Scheper, Rogerio Fernandes

All-Star Game: National - International 126-140
Standings 1997-98
#
Club
W-L
PTS
LOST
1
ALBA Berlin
21-3
2235
1870
2
Telekom Baskets Bonn
19-5
2028
1871
3
TSK uniVersa Bamberg
15-9
1889
1833
4
TVG HerzogTel Trier
14-10
2138
2099
5
TV Tatami Rhoendorf
14-10
1969
1962
6
SG FT/MTV Braunschweig
13-11
2138
2046
7
SSV ratiopharm Ulm 1846
12-12
2012
2032
8
TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen
12-12
2008
2004
9
MTV Flippers Giessen
11-13
1994
2026
10
Brandt Hagen
9-15
1859
1896
11
BG Bayreuth
8-16
1768
1915
12
SV Tally Oberelchingen
7-17
1883
2041
13
USC Freiburg
1-23
1687
2014
14
Ruhr Devils
0-0
0
0
Group 1
1
DJK S. Oliver Wuerzburg
14-2
817
681
2
USC Freiburg
12-4
650
602
3
BC Oldenburg-Westerstede
10-6
613
618
4
SV 1903 Tuebingen
4-12
565
655
5
SSV Einhelt Weissenfels↑
0-16
613
702
Group 2
1
SV Tally Oberelchingen
18-2
886
797
2
BG Bayreuth
14-6
840
744
3
BG 74 Goettingen
8-12
862
908
4
SC Rist Wedel↑
8-12
827
883
5
TV 1860 Lich
6-14
832
855
6
BG Ludwigsburg
6-14
750
810
Group 3
1
MTV Flippers Giessen
18-2
1038
839
2
Brandt Hagen
16-4
959
870
3
BC Johanneumn Hamburg
12-8
875
853
4
TV AXA Langen
10-10
911
954
5
USC Heidelberg↑
2-18
811
927
6
TSV Quakenbrueck↑
2-18
761
912
 
- qualified to the play-offs
 
- relegated at the end of season
↑
- newly prompted
German teams in Euro-Cups 1997-98
FIBA EuroLeague:
  • ALBA Berlin:
  • ALBA Berlin: took 4th place (5-5) in Group D of First Round, then took 2nd place (9-7) in Group G of Second Round, lost to AEK Athens (Greece) 0-2 in the Quarterfinals
Ruhr Devils stopped playing after 23 games. All games played by the team up to that point were removed from the ranking.
League & All-Star Game MVP & Import POY
Wendell Alexis
Top Scorer
Keith Gatlin (23.3)
Dunk Contest Winner
Olumide Oyedeji
3PT Contest Winner
Derrick Taylor
Coach of the Year
Svetislav Pesic