The 2018–19 Slovak Basketball League season will be the 27th season of the top-tier

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competition in

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. Levickí Patrioti are the defending champions.

Competition format

Ten teams joined the regular season, consisted in playing against each other four times home-and-away in double a round-robin format. The eight first qualified teams advance to the playoffs.

Teams

After the resignation of

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, runner-up of the previous season, to continue playing in the league,

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, champion of the 1.Liga, replaced them. Also, VŠEMvs Karlovka Bratislava resigned to the league thus reducing the number of teams to nine.

Regular season

League table

Results

Playoffs

Seeded teams played games 1, 3, 5 and 7 at home. Quarterfinals were played in a best-of-five games format while semifinals and final with a best-of-seven one.

Bracket

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Finals

Slovak clubs in European competitions

References

External links

Slovak Extraliga official website
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