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The 2018–19 NBB season is the 11th season of the Novo Basquete Brasil, the Brazilian basketball league. Once again this tournament was organized entirely by the Liga Nacional de Basquete (LNB). The NBB also qualified teams for international tournaments such as Liga Sudamericana and FIBA Americas League.

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 ESPN Brasil Wednesday: 1 live game on Twitter Thursday: 1 live game on Band Sports Friday: 1 or 2 live games on Fox Sports 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)
 * São José (2018 Liga Ouro runners-up, invited)


 * Teams that were relegated last season:
 * Campo Mourão
 * Liga Sorocabana


 * Teams that left the league:
 * Caxias do Sul

Retirement
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 2008–09, 2012–13,2013–14,2014–15 and 2015–16 seasons, was Runner-up in the 2009–10 NBB season as well as winning the 2007–08 CBB title, the precursor of the current NBB. Marcelinho also have in his career both the South American Basketball League, FIBA Americas League and the FIBA Intercontinental Cup all of them with Flamengo.
 * 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.

Regular season
The regular season began on Saturday, October 13, 2018 13:35 UTC−03:00 at Ginásio Antônio Prado Junior, home of Club Athletico Paulistano, who was defeated 75-85 by Mogi das Cruzes/Helbor. The regular season is scheduled to end on Tuesday, March 26, 2019.

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