The 2024–25 East Asia Super League was the second regular season of the East Asia Super League, an international basketball club competition involving teams from Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, South Korea, Philippines and Taiwan. The season began on 2 October 2024 and ended on 9 March 2025.
The Final Four was held in Macau. The Hiroshima Dragonflies won their first title after defeating the Taoyuan Pauian Pilots in the final.
Teams Allocation The 2024–25 East Asia Super League has ten teams, two more compared the last season. Like the last season, the finalist of the Taiwan's (Chinese Taipei) P. League+, Japan's B.League and South Korea's Korean Basketball League qualified and took part for the 2024–25 season alongside two teams from the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).
The allocation process for Philippine teams was not immediately known since the PBA has two conferences or tournaments for its 2023–24 season. The PBA decided to send the champions of those two conferences.
On 14 August 2024, a team each from Hong Kong and Macau were announced as expansion teams. Eastern in particular are contracted to participate regardless of placing in the domestic league.
League Country or region Berths P. League+ 2 B.League 2 Korean Basketball League 2 Philippine Basketball Association 2Expansion teams 1 1
Qualified teams Team Domestic league standing New Taipei Kings 2023–24 P. League+ champion Taoyuan Pauian Pilots 2023–24 P. League+ runner-up Hiroshima Dragonflies 2023–24 B.League champion Ryukyu Golden Kings 2023–24 B.League runner-up Busan KCC Egis 2023–24 Korean Basketball League champion Suwon KT Sonicboom 2023–24 Korean Basketball League runner-up San Miguel Beermen 2023–24 PBA Commissioner's Cup champion Meralco Bolts 2024 PBA Philippine Cup champion Hong Kong Eastern 2023–24 Hong Kong A1 Division Championship champion Macau Black Bears 2024 Macau Senior Category of the Silver Medal Basketball Tournament champion
Foreign and heritage players The EASL allows a maximum of two foreign players or imports. Additionally teams are allowed to have one additional heritage or naturalized player. Club Imports Asian heritage player Naturalized player Former players New Taipei Kings Sani Sakakini Taoyuan Pauian Pilots Hiroshima Dragonflies Tshilidzi Kawata Ira Brown Ryukyu Golden Kings Alex Kirk Busan KCC Egis Leon Williams Cady Lalanne Calvin Epistola Deonte Burton Suwon KT Sonicboom Rayshaun Hammonds Ismael Romero Jeremiah Tilmon San Miguel Beermen Torren Jones Jabari Narcis EJ Anosike Quincy Miller Meralco Bolts D. J. Kennedy Akil Mitchell Ange Kouame Allen Durham Hong Kong Eastern Cameron Clark Chris McLaughlin Macau Black Bears Samuel Deguara Adonis Thomas Jamal Mayali Will Artino Jeantal Cylla Ting Chun Hong
Draw The result of the draw for the group stage of the 2024–25 season was announced in April 2024 at the time when only the Korean Basketball League qualifying teams are already known; but the champions and runner-up Korean teams are still to be determined. For the placeholder teams team 1 would be the champions, and team 2 would be the runners-up. For the Philippines' case it was the PBA Commissioner's Cup champions which was designated as Team 1 and the PBA Philippine Cup champions as Team 2.
The Hong Kong and Macau team were belatedly added to Group A and Group B respectively.
Group stage Group A
Group B
Final four The final four was held at the Studio City Event Center in Macau, China.
Semifinals Note: All times are Macau Standard Time (UTC+8)
Third place game
Finals
Individual awards
Final Four MVP: Dwayne Evans, Hiroshima Dragonflies
Notes
References
External links Official website