2025 TPBL draft
| 2025 TPBL draft | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Sport | Basketball |
| Date | August 11, 2025 |
| Location | Grand Hilai Taipei (Taipei City) |
| Network | TPBL on Youtube[1] |
| Overview | |
| 8 total selections in 2 rounds | |
| League | Taiwan Professional Basketball League |
| First selection | Liu Cheng-Hsun (Hsinchu Toplus Lioneers) |
The 2025 TPBL draft was the second edition of the Taiwan Professional Basketball League's annual draft. It was held on August 11, 2025, at Grand Hilai Taipei in Taipei City.[2][3] There were seven teams joined the draft, including the Formosa Dreamers, Hsinchu Toplus Lioneers, Kaohsiung Aquas, New Taipei CTBC DEA, New Taipei Kings, Taipei Taishin Mars, and the Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards. There were 27 players participated in the draft, and 8 players were chosen in 2 rounds.[4]
Draft results
| G | Guard | F | Forward | C | Center |
| Rnd. | Pick | Player | Pos. | Team | School / Club team |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Liu Cheng-Hsun | F | Hsinchu Toplus Lioneers | UCH (Sr.) |
| 1 | 2 | Tseng Hsin-Wu | F | New Taipei CTBC DEA | NTNU (Sr.) |
| 1 | 3 | Hsu Hong-Wei | G | Taoyuan Taiwan Beer Leopards | UCH (Sr.) |
| 1 | 4 | Xie Ming-Jun | F | Taipei Taishin Mars | Southern Coast Academy |
| 1 | 5 | Mayaw Fotol | F | Kaohsiung Aquas | NTSU (Sr.) |
| 1 | 6 | Jonathan Smith | G/F | New Taipei Kings | NTUA (Sr.) |
| 2 | 7 | Wei Peng-Ho | G | Taipei Taishin Mars | NTNU (Sr.) |
| 2 | 8 | Ryder Hsiung | F | New Taipei Kings | Willamette (Sr.) |
- Reference：[4]
Undrafted players
These players were not selected in the 2025 TPBL draft, but have played at least one game in the TPBL.
| Player | Pos. | Join team | School / Club team |
|---|---|---|---|
| Karl Breuer | F/C | Hsinchu Toplus Lioneers | NTUA (So.) |
| Chung Li-Hsiang | F | New Taipei Kings | NCCU (Sr.) |
Draft combine
On July 26, the news reported that the TPBL cancelled the draft combine.[5]
Entrants
On August 7, the TPBL released its official list of entrants, consisting of 27 players from college and other educational institutions in this edition of the draft.[6]
- Karl Breuer – F/C, NTUA
- Caleb Chiang – G, Bellevue
- Chiang Chi-An – G, UT
- Chung Chun-Wei – F, HWU
- Chung Li-Hsiang – F, NCCU
- Mayaw Fotol – F, NTSU
- Hsieh Shu-Yi – G, NTSU
- Ryder Hsiung – F, Willamette
- Hsu Hong-Wei – G, UCH
- Hsu Ting-Wei – G, NTSU
- Huang Chun-Yen – G, NTUA
- Huang Wei-Cheng – F, NTSU
- Hung Yu-Hsiang – F, NUTN
- Lai En-Yuan – G/F, NFU
- Lee Cheng-Chien – G, CYCU
- Lee Yu-Chi – G, ISU
- Liang Wen-Chieh – F, UT
- Lin Hsin-Wei – G, Westcliff
- Lin Yu-Chien – G/F, Blue Mountain Christian
- Liu Cheng-Hsun – F, UCH
- Jonathan Smith – G/F, NTUA
- Tseng Chi-Hsiang – G, UT
- Tseng Hsin-Wu – F, NTNU
- Wang Cheng-Lin – C, LIT
- Wang Chun-Sheng – G, NFU
- Wei Peng-Ho – G, NTNU
- Xie Ming-Jun – F, Southern Coast Academy
References
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