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Novo Basquete Brasil

Organising body	Liga Nacional de Basquete (LNB)
Founded	2008; 16 years ago (2008)
Country	Brazil
Number of teams	18
Level on pyramid	1st
Relegation to	Liga Ouro de Basquete
Related competitions	São Paulo State Championship Rio de Janeiro State Championship
Current champions	Franca (3rd title) (2023–24)
Most championships	Flamengo (7 titles)
CEO	Rodrigo Montoro
TV partners	ESPN Facebook Twitter
Website	LNB.com.br
2023–24 NBB season

Novo Basquete Brasil (NBB; English: New Basketball Brazil) is the Brazilian premier professional men's basketball league. It is organized by the Liga Nacional de Basquete (LNB; English: National Basketball League), in a new format of Brazil's previous top-tier level basketball competition, the Campeonato Brasileiro de Basquete (Brazilian Basketball Championship). The NBB is managed by the Brazilian basketball associations, which were founding members of the LNB.

Format

The NBB is the annual basketball league that is promoted by the national Brazilian league (LNB) organizing body, and is endorsed by the Brazilian Basketball Confederation (CFB). The first phase of the season consists of fifteen teams playing against each other, on a home and away basis. Then the top eight teams go to the playoffs, where the top ranked team plays against the one in the eighth place, the second from the top plays the seventh, and so on. Each playoff series is a best-of-five, apart from the championship final, which is a single game. In all of those, the best placed team has the home court advantage. Finally, the best placed teams in the league qualify to the South American top-tier level FIBA Americas League and the South American second-tier level FIBA South American League.

LOB

The NBB has a promotion and relegation format with the Brazilian second-tier level league, the Liga Ouro de Basquete (LOB) (Gold Basketball League). The worst performing teams of each NBB season are relegated down to the second-tier level LOB, while the best performing teams of each LOB season are promoted up to the top-tier level NBB.

LDB

The NBB also features an Under-20 age development league, called the Liga de Desenvolvimento de Basquete (LDB) (Developmental Basketball League).

History

2009 season

The NBB inaugural season didn't have the participation of founding-members Iguaçu, Londrina, Ulbra/Rio Claro, and Uberlândia.

2009–10 season

For the second NBB edition, the LNB confirmed the participation of 14 teams. Limeira and Bira-Lajeado could not keep their squads, thus did not join the season. On the other hand, Londrina joined the League, while an Araraquara/Palmeiras deal brought back to the national competition one of the most traditional Brazilian clubs.

2010–11 season

The 15 teams from the previous season confirmed their participation. The third NBB edition also featured former national and South American champions Uberlândia, who managed to gather a strong squad sponsored by Brasília's former partner, Universo. After a one-year hiatus, Limeira returned to the League. Besides that, first-timers Rio Claro and Iguaçu joined as well.

2012–13 season

For the first time, the NBB had eighteen participating teams, a record in the NBB's history. The three-time champion, Brasília, came once again as the title favorite. But their greatest rival Flamengo, assembled a team to break this hegemony, and thus win the NBB after four years. Uberlândia emerged as one of the favorites for the title, as well as São José. The rookies were the teams of Suzano, Mogi das Cruzes, Palmeiras, and Basquete Cearense. Of the four, the only team to qualify for the playoffs was Basquete Cearense. The last two were Tijuca and Suzano. Suzano, due to financial difficulties, dismounted their team to the championship final, while Tijuca played a small promotion tournament with Fluminense and Macaé, respectively champion and runner-up of Supercopa Brasil de Basquete. In the playoffs, a surprise: the champions of the past three editions were eliminated in the quarterfinals by São José. In the semifinals, Flamengo eliminated São José 3–2, and Uberlândia swept Bauru by 3–0. The final, played in one game in Rio de Janeiro, was won by the super-team of Flamengo, who after four years, won their second title of the NBB.

NBB rivalries

Teams

Results

Season	Champion	Final result	Runner-up	Season MVP	Coach of the Year
2009	Flamengo (1)	3–2 (series)	Brasília	Marcelinho Machado (FLA)	Paulo Sampaio (FLA)
2009–10	Brasília (1)	3–2 (series)	Flamengo	Marcelinho Machado (FLA)	Lula Ferreira (BRA)
2010–11	Brasília (2)	3–1 (series)	Franca	Guilherme Giovannoni (BRA)	Hélio Rubens (FRA)
2011–12	Brasília (3)	78–62	São José	Murilo Becker (SJO)	Régis Marrelli (SJO)
2012–13	Flamengo (2)	77–70	Uberlândia	Marquinhos (FLA)	Lula Ferreira (FRA)
2013–14	Flamengo (3)	78–73	Paulistano	David Jackson (LIM)	Gustavo de Conti (PAU)
2014–15	Flamengo (4)	2–0 (series)	Bauru	Alex Garcia (BAU)	Dedé Barbosa (LIM)
2015–16	Flamengo (5)	3–2 (series)	Bauru	Marquinhos (FLA)	José Alves Neto (FLA)
2016–17	Bauru (1)	3–2 (series)	Paulistano	Desmond Holloway (PIN)	Gustavo de Conti (PAU)
2017–18	Paulistano (1)	3–1 (series)	Mogi das Cruzes	Marquinhos (FLA)	Gustavo de Conti (PAU)
2018–19	Flamengo (6)	3–2 (series)	Franca	J.P. Batista (MOG)	Léo Figueiró (BOT)
2019–20	Canceled after the regular season due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil
2020–21	Flamengo (7)	3–0 (series)	São Paulo	Lucas Mariano (SPA)	Gustavo de Conti (FLA)
2021–22	Franca (1)	3–1 (series)	Flamengo	Bruno Caboclo (SPA)	Helinho Garcia (FRA)
2022–23	Franca (2)	3–2 (series)	São Paulo	Lucas Dias (FRA)	Helinho Garcia (FRA)
2023–24	Franca (3)	3–1 (series)	Flamengo	Lucas Dias (FRA)	Paulo Cézar Jaú (BAU)

Titles by club

NBB awards

All-Star Weekend

Similarly to other basketball leagues around the world, the NBB organises an all-star game in which its showcases the best players of the league. In addition to the game, a dunk contest, three-point contest and "Skills Challenge" are organised.

Notable players

• Rafael "Bábby" Araújo
• Leandro Barbosa
• Anderson Varejão
• Vítor Benite
• Valtinho da Silva
• Bruno Caboclo
• Gui Santos
• Cristiano Felício
• Alex Garcia
• Guilherme Giovannoni
• Vítor Faverani
• Didi Louzada
• Rafael Luz
• Duda Machado
• Marcelinho Machado
• Carlos Olivinha
• Raul Neto
• Fab Melo
• Marquinhos Vieira
• Lucas Nogueira
• / Larry Taylor
• Juan Pablo Figueroa
• Walter Herrmann
• Federico Kammerichs
• Nicolás Laprovíttola
• Facundo Sucatzky
• Franco Balbi
• Joel Muñoz
• Ronald Ramón
• Darington Hobson
• Marc Brown
• Robby Collum
• Tyrone Curnell
• Robert Day
• Kyle Fuller
• Desmond Holloway
• David Jackson
• Kyle Lamonte
• Jerome Meyinsse
• Bernard Robinson
• Joseph Shipp
• Shamell Stallworth
• Rashad McCants

See also

• Brazilian Championship
• São Paulo State Championship
• Rio de Janeiro State Championship

References

1. "España2014 – Perfil del Candidato al Comodín de la Copa Mundial de Baloncesto FIBA 2014: Brasil" (in Spanish). FIBA Americas. Jan 13, 2014. Retrieved Jan 12, 2016.
2. "Após decisão unânime dos clubes, LNB encerra temporada do NBB 2019/2020" [After unanimous clubs decision, LNB ends the 2019/2020 NBB season]. Globo Esporte (in Portuguese). 4 May 2020.

External links

• Official website (in Portuguese)
• New Basketball Brazil at Latinbasket.com

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