2017–18 Slovenian Basketball League
| Season | 2017–18 |
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| Teams | 10 |
| TV |
RTV Slovenija Šport TV |
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← 2016–17
2018–19 →
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The 2017–18 Slovenian Basketball League, also known as Liga Nova KBM due to sponsorship reasons, will be the 27th season of the Premier A Slovenian Basketball League. Olimpija Ljubljana are the defending champions.
The number of teams was reduced from 12 to only 10 for the 2017–18 season.
In the first phase, 10 teams compete in a home-and-away round-robin series (18 games total). All teams advance from the regular season to one of two postseason stages, depending on their league position.
The top six teams from the regular season advance to the championship phase. These teams start the second phase from scratch, with no results carrying over from the regular season. Each team plays a total of 10 games in this phase; as in the regular season, a home-and-away round-robin is used.
The top four teams at the end of this stage advance to the semifinals, conducted as a best-of-three playoff. The semifinal winners advance to the best-of-five championship finals, with the winners being crowned league champion.
The bottom four teams play a home-and-away round-robin series with one another; these teams' results from the regular season carry over to the playouts. At the end of the playout phase, the bottom finisher is automatically relegated to the second level of the Slovenian league system, the 2. SKL. That team is replaced in the following season's league by the 2. SKL champion. The second-from-bottom finisher enters a home-and-away round-robin mini-league with the second- and third-place teams from the second league, with the team finishing on top of the mini-league taking up a place in the next year's 1. A SKL.
Ilirija promoted as champion of the Second League. The team from Ljubljana replaced Terme Olimia Podčetrtek, LTH Castings and Portorož, that ended in the three last positions of the 2016–17 season.
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