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2015-16 NBL Players Poll
The NBL Championship is headed back to Auckland and Josh Childress will be the 2016 NBL MVP, according to a poll taken by the NBL players at last week's pre-season Blitz.
In the poll, the New Zealand Breakers were nominated by 29.5 per cent of players to repeat as the NBL Champions in the upcoming season. If they were to go back-to-back, the Auckland-based franchise would claim an unprecedented fifth NBL title in the past six seasons.
Most Likely Teams to make the NBL Finals
78% - New Zealand Breakers
75% – Melbourne United
68% – Perth Wildcats
60% – Cairns Taipans
53% – Sydney Kings
48% – Illawarra Hawks
Most Likely Player to be NBL MVP
55% – Josh Childress (Sydney)
10% – Cedric Jackson (New Zealand)
5% – Chris Goulding (Melbourne)
5% – Brian Conklin (Townsville)
Most Exciting New NBL Import
52% – Hakim Warrick (Melbourne)
51% – Marcus Thornton (Sydney)
29% – Casey Prather (Perth)
27% – Stephen Holt (Melbourne)
16% – Jordair Jett (Townsville)
11% – Kenyon McNeail (Adelaide)
Best Returning NBL Player
55% – Chris Goulding (Melbourne)
34% – Julian Khazzouh (Sydney)
29% – Kevin Lisch (Illawarra)
26% – Kirk Penney (Illawarra)
19% – Nathan Jawai (Perth)
http://www.nbl.com.au/featured-news/2015-nbl-players-poll/