The 2014–15 NBB season was the 7th season of the

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, the

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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

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and

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. This season sixteen teams were played each other in the regular season. At the end of the home and away matches round the top four teams qualified for the quarterfinals of the playoffs automatically, while the teams finishing in the 5th and 12th place participated in the first round of the playoffs to determine the other four teams in the quarterfinals, in a five-match series. This year NBB returned to a series in the Finals, played in a best of three-match. For this season, only the last regular season placed was relegated to the Liga Ouro, the NBB second division. The Liga Ouro winner receive the right to contest NBB in the next year.

Participating teams

;New teams in the league: *

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( 2014 Liga Ouro champions, promoted) ;Teams that left the league: * Universo/Goiânia (16th place in the 2013–14 regular season, relegated) * Espírito Santo Basquetebol (17th place in the 2013–14 regular season, relegated)

Head coach changes

;Pre-season changes ;Mid-season changes

Regular season

League table

Results

Notes: *† Flamengo was punished by the LNB due to problems in the Ginásio Álvaro Vieira Lima and Pinheiros was declared the winner by 20–0 (

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NBB All-Star Weekend

For the third time in history the All-Star Weekend was played at Ginásio Pedrocão in

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on March 6–7, 2015. In the first day of the event, it was disputed the "Dunk Tournament", "Three-Point Tournament", "Skills Challenge" and "Shooting Stars Competition". The NBB All-Star Game was played on the following day with NBB Brasil defeated NBB Mundo for the fourth straight year (131–110).

Playoffs

First round

(5) Minas vs. (12) Macaé Basquete

;Game 1 ;Game 2 ;Game 3 ;Game 4

(6) Paulistano vs. (11) São José

;Game 1 ;Game 2 ;Game 3 ;Game 4