The 2017–18
Slovak Basketball League
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season was the 26th season of the top-tier
basketball
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competition in
Slovakia
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.
Inter Bratislava
FK Inter Bratislava () is a football club based in Bratislava, Slovakia, temporarily playing its home matches in Štadion Pasienky.
History
Inter Bratislava was founded in 1940 by the Apollo refinery (later renamed Slovnaft). Following the end o ...
was the defending champion, but was eliminated in the semifinals.
Levickí Patrioti won their second league.
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
Lučenec
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and
SPU Nitra did not continue in the Extraliga.
Žilina
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, champion of the 1.Liga, replaced them.
Regular season
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.
Slovak clubs in Regional competitions
References
External links
Slovak Extraliga official website
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Slovak
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...
Slovak Extraliga (basketball)