1991 NBL season

The 1991 NBL season was the 13th season of competition since its establishment in 1979. A total of 14 teams contest the league.

Clubs

Club	Location	Home Venue	Capacity	Founded	Head coach
Adelaide 36ers	Adelaide, South Australia	Apollo Stadium	3,000	1982	Don Shipway
Brisbane Bullets	Brisbane, Queensland	Brisbane Entertainment Centre	13,500	1979	Brian Kearle
Canberra Cannons	Canberra, Australian Capital Territory	AIS Arena	5,200	1979
Eastside Melbourne Spectres	Melbourne, Victoria	Burwood Stadium	2,000	1979	Brian Goorjian
Geelong Supercats	Geelong, Victoria	Geelong Arena	2,000	1982	Gary Fox
Gold Coast Cougars	Gold Coast, Queensland	Carrara Indoor Stadium	2,992	1990	Dave Claxton
Hobart Devils	Hobart, Tasmania	Derwent Entertainment Centre	5,400	1983
Illawarra Hawks	Wollongong, New South Wales	Illawarra Basketball Stadium	2,000	1979	Dave Lindstrom
Melbourne Tigers	Melbourne, Victoria	The Glass House	7,200	1931	Lindsay Gaze
Newcastle Falcons	Newcastle, New South Wales	Broadmeadow Basketball Stadium	2,000	1979
North Melbourne Giants	Melbourne, Victoria	The Glass House	7,200	1980	Bruce Palmer
Perth Wildcats	Perth, Western Australia	Perth Entertainment Centre	8,200	1982	Murray Arnold
Southern Melbourne Saints	Melbourne, Victoria	The Glass House	7,200	1979
Sydney Kings	Sydney, New South Wales	Sydney Entertainment Centre	12,500	1988	Bob Turner

Regular season

The home and away season took place over 24 rounds between 6 April 1991 and 22 September 1991 with semi-final on 25 September 1991 until 11 October 1991 and grand final on 19 October until 27 October 1991.

1991 saw Melbourne Tigers superstar Andrew Gaze became the first player to score 1,000 points in an NBL regular season. He scored 1,007 points in 26 games at 38.7 points per game. For his efforts he was awarded the first of what would eventually become a league record seven NBL Most Valuable Player awards as well as his 6th straight selection to the All NBL team.

Ladder

Finals

There were two best of three Elimination finals, two best of three semi-finals, and then best of three grand final. All three of these finals were sudden death.

Elimination Finals

Semi-Finals

Grand Final

1991 NBL statistics leaders

NBL awards

• Most Valuable Player: Andrew Gaze, Melbourne Tigers
• Most Valuable Player Grand Final: Pete Hansen, Perth Wildcats
• Best Defensive Player: Terry Dozier, Geelong Supercats
• Most Improved Player: Andrew Parkinson, Southern Melbourne Saints
• Rookie of the Year: Andrew Vlahov, Perth Wildcats
• Coach of the Year: Murray Arnold, Perth Wildcats

All NBL Team