2009–10 NBA season
The NBA season 2009/10 was the 64th season of the National Basketball Association. The regular season began on 27 October 2009 and ended on April 14, 2010. Subsequently, the NBA playoffs followed on April 17, 2010, which ended in mid-June with the NBA Finals.
Course of the season
Referee strike
The 57 professional referees in the NBA announced after the fruitless bargaining with the NBA in Chicago, not to participate in the annual training camp before the season starts. The NBA did not respond to the behavior of the referee and locked them out for the pre-season. Instead kicks off in preparation arbitrator from the lower leagues and the WNBA. Shortly after the pre-season final agreement took place and the professional referee squad took over the regular season and the playoffs as a referee.
Regular Season
The regular season began in late October with the games Boston Celtics - Cleveland Cavaliers ( 95:89 ), Washington Wizards - Dallas Mavericks ( 102:91 ), Houston Rockets - Portland Trail Blazers ( 87:96 ) and Los Angeles Clippers - Los Angeles Lakers ( 92:99 ). The New Jersey Nets started the season with the record of 18 consecutive losses. In the further course of the season they could not leave the last place of the table. In the game the Chicago Bulls against the Denver Nuggets on 10 November 2009 was found only after ten minutes of video study, who had won the game in the last tenth of a second: With 0.3 seconds on the clock threw Kirk Hinrich of the Bulls Brad Miller, the turned and met. After his dismissal and responded Dwight Howard of the Orlando Magic on the loss to the Detroit Pistons with criticism of the referees, he got on 11 November 2009 a fine of 15,000 U.S. dollars.
At the end of the regular season were both in the West and in the East the best teams of the year at # 1 (Los Angeles Lakers and Cleveland Cavaliers ). In the West, here are the teams from Dallas, Utah, Denver and Phoenix, in the east is Orlando, Atlanta and Boston. Among the surprises of the season include Oklahoma, who made it to the playoffs in the West and in the East the Milwaukee Bucks, the rest with their rookie Brandon Jennings in 5th place.
The negative surprises were in the West, the Houston Rockets and the New Orleans Hornets, both for the first time not represented again after a few years in the playoffs and in the east the New Jersey Nets, the long time on the way were to set a new record low, which was only avoided by a spurt in late March.
At the end of the regular season, the Chicago Bulls secured the last play-off place alongside the Los Angeles Lakers, Oklahoma City Thunder, Dallas Mavericks, San Antonio Spurs, Phoenix Suns, Portland Trail Blazers, Denver Nuggets, Utah Jazz, Cleveland Cavaliers, Orlando Magic, Charlotte Bobcats, Atlanta Hawks, Milwaukee Bucks, Boston Celtics and the Miami Heat.
All-Star Game
The All-Star Game 2010 took place on 14 February 2010 in front of 108,713 fans at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington instead. The selection of the East won the game with 141:139. MVP of the game was Dwyane Wade of the Miami Heat.
End figures
W = Wins, L = Losses, PCT = percentage share of victory, P = behind Division leaders
In parentheses are the rankings in the seedings of the respective Conference playoffs are listed.
The winner of a division is on of the decisive play-off seedings guaranteed at least fourth place, even if more than three teams have a higher number of wins achieved.
Honors
- Most Valuable Player: LeBron James, Cleveland Cavaliers
- Defensive Player of the Year: Dwight Howard, Orlando Magic
- Rookie of the Year: Tyreke Evans, Sacramento Kings
- Sixth Man of the Year: Jamal Crawford, Atlanta Hawks
- Most Improved Player: Aaron Brooks, Houston Rockets
- Coach of the Year: Scott Brooks, Oklahoma City Thunder
- All- NBA First Team: F - LeBron James, Cleveland Cavaliers
- F - Kevin Durant, Oklahoma City Thunder
- C - Dwight Howard, Orlando Magic
- G - Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles Lakers
- G - Dwyane Wade, Miami Heat
- F - Dirk Nowitzki, Dallas Mavericks
- F - Carmelo Anthony, Denver Nuggets
- C - Amar'e Stoudemire, Phoenix Suns
- G - Steve Nash, Phoenix Suns
- G - Deron Williams, Utah Jazz
- F - Tim Duncan, San Antonio Spurs
- C - Andrew Bogut, Milwaukee Bucks
- G - Joe Johnson, Atlanta Hawks
- G - Brandon Roy, Portland Trail Blazers
- F - LeBron James, Cleveland Cavaliers
- F - Gerald Wallace, Charlotte Bobcats
- C - Dwight Howard, Orlando Magic
- G - Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles Lakers
- G - Rajon Rondo, Boston Celtics
- F - Josh Smith, Atlanta Hawks
- F - Anderson Varejao, Cleveland Cavaliers
- C - Tim Duncan, San Antonio Spurs
- G - Dwyane Wade, Miami Heat
- G - Thabo Sefolosha, Oklahoma City
- Tyreke Evans, Sacramento Kings
- Brandon Jennings, Milwaukee Bucks
- Stephen Curry, Golden State Warriors
- Darren Collison, New Orleans Hornets
- Taj Gibson, Chicago Bulls
- Marcus Thornton, New Orleans Hornets
- DeJuan Blair, San Antonio Spurs
- James Harden, Oklahoma City Thunder
- Jonny Flynn, Minnesota Timberwolves
- Jonas Jerebko, Detroit Pistons
Play-offs
All play-off rounds were played in best- of-seven - mode.
Explanation: * Division Winner