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2016–17 Slovenian Basketball League

basketball league season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ28128187 ↗
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The 2016–17 Slovenian Basketball League, also known as Liga Nova KBM due to sponsorship reasons, was the 26th season of the Premier A Slovenian Basketball League.

Helios Suns were the defending champions. KK Union Olimpija won their 16th national title, defeating KK Rogaška 3–1 in the final.

Format

The 12 teams of the league play a double-legged round-robin competition where the six first qualified teams will join the playoffs for the title. The four last qualified teams will join the relegation group where the three worst qualified teams will be relegated.

Teams

Sixt Primorska was created after the merge of KOŠ Koper and KK Lastovka and occupied the place of this team in the league.

Personnel and kits

Managerial changes

Regular season

Second stage

Group for the title

Relegation group

Results of the first stage between teams involved counted for this stage.

Playoffs

The Playoffs began on Saturday, May 5, 2017 and concluded at May 24, 2017.

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