The 2018–19 NBA G League season was the 18th season of the

NBA G League The NBA G League, or simply the G League, is the National Basketball Association's (NBA) official List of developmental and minor sports leagues, minor league basketball organization. The league was known as the National Basketball Development ...

, the official minor league basketball organization owned by the

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(NBA).

League changes

The league expanded by one team, the

Capital City Go-Go The Capital City Go-Go is an American professional basketball team in the NBA G League based in Washington, D.C., and are affiliated with the Washington Wizards. The Go-Go play their home games at the St. Elizabeths East Entertainment and Sports ...

owned by the

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, to have 27 teams for the season. There were three relocations, with two of them within the team's existing market. The most significant relocation was that of the Reno Bighorns, which were moved by their parent club, the

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, to

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and renamed the Stockton Kings. One of the in-market relocations was that of the Delaware 87ers, which were moved into a new nearby facility in Wilmington from their former home in

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, and rebranded as the

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. Finally, the

Rio Grande Valley Vipers The Rio Grande Valley Vipers are an American professional basketball team of the NBA G League based in Edinburg, Texas, and are affiliated with the Houston Rockets. The Vipers play their home games at the Bert Ogden Arena. The Vipers have won fo ...

moved within the urban area at the southernmost end of Texas, going from

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to nearby Edinburg with the opening of Bert Ogden Arena. With the addition of the Go-Go, the league slightly realigned its six divisions. The Go-Go were added to the Southeast and Delaware was shifted to the Atlantic. During the season, league president Malcolm Turner stepped down to become the athletics director at

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. He was replaced by

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Regular season

Final standings: x – qualified for playoffs; y – Division champion; z – Conference champion

Eastern Conference

;Atlantic Division ;Central Division ;Southeast Division

Western Conference

;Midwest Division ;Pacific Division ;Southwest Division

Playoffs

For the second straight season, the League enacted a six-team playoff, with one-game series for the first three rounds and first round byes for the top two seeds in each conference. For the Finals, a tiebreaker was required since both teams had the same record, for which there existed three tiebreakers: best winning percentage against each other, record against the other conference, or random drawing, which resulted in the

Long Island Nets The Long Island Nets are an American professional basketball team in the NBA G League based in Uniondale, New York, and are affiliated with the Brooklyn Nets. The team plays its home games at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Nassau County ...

hosting the first and last game of the Finals against the

. The Nets won Game 1 117-107, but the Vipers won Game 2 127-116 and then won the series in Game 3 129-112 to win their third league title, most for any team in history.

League changes

Regular season

Eastern Conference

Western Conference

Playoffs

Finals boxscore

Statistics

Individual statistic leaders

Individual game highs

Team statistic leaders

References

External links