2015–16 NBB season

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The 2015–16 NBB season was the 8th 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.

This season fifteen 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 , 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

• ( champions, promoted)
• Vitória ( runners-up, promoted)

Teams that left the league

• Uberlândia
• Palmeiras
• Limeira

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity	Head coach	Appearance	Last season
Basquete Cearense	Fortaleza	Ginásio Paulo Sarasate	2,200 8,200		4th	14th
Bauru	Bauru		2,000	Demétrius Ferracciú	8th	2nd
Brasília	Brasília	Ginásio Nilson Nelson	3,050 16,000		8th	6th
	Caxias do Sul		850		1st	1st ()
Flamengo	Rio de Janeiro	Ginásio Álvaro Vieira Lima Arena Carioca 2	4,500 10,000	José Alves Neto	8th	1st
Franca	Franca		6,000	Lula Ferreira	8th	12th
Liga Sorocabana	Sorocaba		3,000		5th	16th
Macaé Basquete	Macaé		3,000 6,000		3rd	8th
Minas Tênis Clube	Belo Horizonte	Arena Vivo	4,000		8th	9th
Mogi das Cruzes	Mogi das Cruzes		5,000		4th	4th
Paulistano	São Paulo		1,500	Gustavo de Conti	8th	10th
Pinheiros	São Paulo		854		8th	11th
	Rio Claro		3,000		2nd	15th
São José	São José dos Campos		2,620		8th	7th
Vitória	Salvador		ND		1st	2nd ()

Cearense

Bauru

Brasília

Flamengo

Franca

Sorocabana

Macaé

Minas

Mogi

São Paulo

São José

Vitória

São Paulo teams:
Paulistano
Pinheiros

Locations of the 2015–16 NBB teams

Head coach changes[] Pre-season changes Team Outgoing coach Manner of departure Replaced by Date of appointment Mid-season changes Team Outgoing coach Manner of departure Replaced by Date of appointment Regular season[] League table[] Results[] NBB All-Star Weekend[] Main article: Playoffs[] First Round (Best-of-5) Quarterfinals (Best-of-5) Semifinals (Best-of-5) Final (Best-of-5) (1) Flamengo 3 (8) 3 (8) 0 (9) Franca 2 (1) Flamengo 3 (5) Mogi das Cruzes 2 (4) Basquete Cearense 1 (5) Mogi das Cruzes 3 (5) Mogi das Cruzes 3 (12) Vitória 0 (1) Flamengo 3 (2) Bauru 2 (2) Bauru 3 (7) Pinheiros 3 (7) Pinheiros 1 (10) Minas 2 (2) Bauru 3 (6) Brasília 0 (3) Paulistano 1 (6) Brasília 3 (6) Brasília 3 (11) 1 References[] External links[] Official website