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Novo Basquete Brasil
Season	2018–19
Dates	13 October 2018 – 26 March 2019 (Regular season)
Number of teams	14
TV partner(s)	Band ESPN Brasil Fox Sports Facebook Live Twitter
← 2017–18 2019–20 →

The 2018–19 NBB season is the 11th season of the

.

In this season fourteen teams will play each other during the regular season. At the end of the home and away matches round the top four teams qualify for the quarterfinals of the playoffs automatically, while the teams finishing in the 5th and 12th place will participate in the first round of the playoffs to determine the other four teams in the quarterfinals, in a five-match series. This season maintained the playoff method of best of 5 games, played on the 1-2-1-1 format, used since the 15/16 season.

For this season, the last regular season placed team is relegated to the 2020 Liga Ouro, the NBB second division. Only the Liga Ouro winner receives the right to contest NBB in the next season.

Broadcasting rights

For the first time since it's inception in 2009, the NBB will have 4 tv broadcasting partners along with live transmissions in the official competition pages in Facebook and Twitter. The week calendar generally goes like this:

Monday: 1 live game on Facebook
Tuesday: 1 or 2 live games on

Wednesday: 1 live game on Twitter
Thursday: 1 live game on Band Sports
Friday: 1 or 2 live games on
Saturday: 2 back-to-back live games on Band plus random transmissions on the other channels

Participating teams

New teams in the league

• Corinthians (2018 Liga Ouro champions, promoted) ^[2]
• São José (2018 Liga Ouro runners-up, invited) ^[3]

Teams that were relegated last season

• Campo Mourão
• Liga Sorocabana

Teams that left the league

• Caxias do Sul

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity	Head coach	Appearance	Last regular season	Last season playoffs	NBB Titles (Last title)
Solar Basquete Cearense	Fortaleza	Ginásio Paulo Sarasate	8,200	Dannyel Russo	7th	10th	Quarterfinals	0
Bauru Basket	Bauru	Ginásio Panela de Pressão	2,000	Demétrius Ferracciú	11th	6th	Semifinals	1 (2016-17)
Botafogo	Rio de Janeiro	Ginásio Oscar Zelaya	850	Leonardo Alves	2nd	12th	Play-off Round	0
Corinthians	São Paulo	Ginásio Wlamir Marques	7,000	Bruno Savignani	1st	1st (Liga Ouro)	-	0
Flamengo	Rio de Janeiro	Arena Carioca 1	6,000	Gustavo de Conti	11th	1st	Semifinals	5 (2015-16)
Franca	Franca	Ginásio Pedrocão	6,000	Helinho	11th	3rd	Quarterfinals	0
Joinville/AABJ	Joinville	Centreventos Cau Hansen	4,000	George Rodrigues	2nd	13th	DNQ	0
Minas Storm	Belo Horizonte	Juscelino Kubitschek Arena	4,000	Espiga	11th	9th	Quarterfinals	0
Mogi das Cruzes/Helbor	Mogi das Cruzes	Ginásio Municipal Professor Hugo Ramos	5,000	Guerrinha	7th	4th	Runner-up	0
Paulistano/Corpore	São Paulo	Ginásio Antônio Prado Junior	1,500	Régis Marelli	11th	2nd	Champions	1 (2017-18)
Pinheiros	São Paulo	Poliesportivo Henrique Villaboim	854	César Guidetti	11th	7th	Play-off Round	0
São José	São José dos Campos	Lineu Moura	2.260	Cristiano Ahmed	9th	2nd (Liga Ouro)	-	0
Universo Brasília	Brasília	Ginásio Nilson Nelson	16,000	André Germano	9th[4]	8th	Play-off Round	0
Vasco da Gama	Rio de Janeiro	Ginásio Vasco da Gama	1.000	Alberto Bial	2nd	11th	Play-off Round	0

Transactions

Retirement

• On May 12, 2018, following
  Flamengo's elimination in the 2017–18 NBB season semifinals, Marcelinho Machado
  retired from basketball after playing 22 seasons of basketball, 12 for Flamengo alone.

Along with teammates Marquinhos and Olivinha, Marcelinho is the biggest champion of NBB, reaching the league final on six different occasions. He has clinched the title in the

as well as winning the 2007–08 CBB title, the precursor of the current NBB. Marcelinho also have in his career both the

Coaching changes

Coaching changes

Off-season
Team	2017–18 season	2018–19 season
Flamengo	José Neto	Gustavo de Conti
Paulistano/Corpore	Gustavo de Conti	Régis Marelli

Regular season

The regular season began on Saturday, October 13, 2018 13:35 

Standings

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	PCT	GB	Qualification or relegation
1	Flamengo	3	3	0	243	198	+45	1.000	—	Qualification to the playoff quarter-finals
2	Pinheiros	3	3	0	263	244	+19	1.000	—
3	Franca	1	1	0	83	80	+3	1.000	1
4	Joinville/AABJ	3	2	1	213	204	+9	.667	1
5	Mogi das Cruzes/Helbor	2	1	1	162	158	+4	.500	1.5	Qualficiation to the playoff first round
6	São José	2	1	1	178	174	+4	.500	1.5
7	Paulistano/Corpore	2	1	1	167	168	−1	.500	1.5
8	Vasco da Gama	2	1	1	143	150	−7	.500	1.5
9	Botafogo	1	0	1	62	64	−2	.000	2
10	Gocil/Bauru Basket	1	0	1	81	92	−11	.000	2
11	Corinthians	2	0	2	163	175	−12	.000	2.5
12	Solar Basquete Cearense	2	0	2	140	165	−25	.000	2.5
13	Universo Brasília	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	1.5
14	Minas Storm	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	1.5	Relegated to Liga Ouro

Results

Awards

Most Valuable Player:
Sixth Man of the Year Award:
Defensive Player of the Year Award:
Most Improved Player of the Year Award:
NBB Coach of the Year (Ary Vidal Trophy):
NBB's Revelation Player of the Year:
NBB Finals MVP Award:

2018-19 NBB Brazil