2017–18 LBA season
| Season | 2017–18 |
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| Teams | 16 |
| Games played | 240 (Regular season) 24–41 (Playoffs) |
| Dates | October 2016 – June 2017 |
| TV | Rai Sport, Eurosport |
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← 2016–17
2018–19 →
1 Sponsored league name, referring to PosteMobile.
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The 2017–18 Lega Basket Serie A, will be the 96th season of the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA), known for sponsorship reasons as the Serie A PosteMobile, which is highest-tier level professional basketball league in Italy. The regular season will start in October 2016 and will finish in May 2017, with the playoffs starting in May (dependent on an Italian club qualifying for the 2018 EuroLeague Final Four, the 2018 EuroCup Finals or the 2018 Champions League Playoffs) to finish in June depending on results.
As in previous years, Molten Corporation provided the official ball for all matches.
Umana Reyer Venezia are the defending champions.
A total of 16 teams will contest the league, including 15 sides from the 2016–17 season and one promoted from the 2016–17 Serie A2.
Segafredo Virtus Bologna is the promoted club from the Serie A2 Citroën after beating Alma Trieste at game 3 of league's playoffs, and returns in the highest-tier of the Italian basketball league system after just one season of absence.
Virtus Bologna replaced Vanoli Cremona who was relegated during the previous season.
As in previous seasons, LBA clubs must play in arenas that seat at least 3,500 people. From 2017–18 season, all clubs must host their home playoffs matches in arenas with a seating capacity of at least 5,000 people.
In summer 2016, four Italian teams (Reggio Emilia, Trento, Sassari and Cantù) were forced to withdraw from EuroCup because of the FIBA and Euroleague Basketball controversy. From this season, Italian Basketball Federation will allow LBA clubs to rejoin EuroCup. There will be at least six teams in Europe. One in EuroLeague (Olimpia Milano directly enter the EuroLeague as licensed club), two in EuroCup (but they are negotiating with ECA for a third spot) and three in Basketball Champions League.Lega Basket decided Italian Clubs will be free to choose in which European Cup they want to play, based on final ranking and sports merit.
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