2018–19 LBA season
The 2018–19 LBA season, also known as Serie A PosteMobile for sponsorship reasons, was the 97th season of the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA), the men's top tier professional basketball division of the Italian basketball league system (LBA). The regular season began on October 7, 2018 and finished on May 12, 2019, with the playoffs started on May 18 (dependent on an Italian club qualifying for the 2019 EuroLeague Final Four, 2019 EuroCup Playoffs or for the 2019 Champions League Playoffs) and finished on June 22.
Serie A PosteMobile1 | |||||||||||||
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Season | 2018–19 | ||||||||||||
Duration | 7 October 2018 – June 2019 | ||||||||||||
Number of games | 265 | ||||||||||||
Number of teams | 16 | ||||||||||||
TV partner(s) | Rai Sport, Eurosport | ||||||||||||
Regular season | |||||||||||||
Top seed | AX Armani Exchange Milano | ||||||||||||
Season MVP | Drew Crawford | ||||||||||||
Relegated | Fiat Torino | ||||||||||||
Finals | |||||||||||||
Champions | Umana Reyer Venezia | ||||||||||||
Runners-up | Banco di Sardegna Sassari | ||||||||||||
Semifinalists | AX Armani Exchange Milano Vanoli Cremona | ||||||||||||
Finals MVP | Austin Daye | ||||||||||||
Awards | |||||||||||||
Best Young Player | Tony Carr | ||||||||||||
Statistical leaders | |||||||||||||
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Records | |||||||||||||
Biggest home win | Trieste 110–64 Avellino (December 16, 2018) | ||||||||||||
Biggest away win | Avellino 49–79 Venezia (November 25, 2018) | ||||||||||||
Highest scoring | Pesaro 106–122 Cremona (December 16, 2018) | ||||||||||||
Winning streak | 15 games Banco di Sardegna Sassari | ||||||||||||
Losing streak | 8 games Red October Cantù | ||||||||||||
Highest attendance | 12,005 AX Milano 72–67 Varese (December 23, 2018) | ||||||||||||
Average attendance | 960,823 (4,003 per match) | ||||||||||||
← 2017–18 2019–20 →
All statistics correct as of complete.1 Sponsored league name, referring to PosteMobile. |
As in previous years, Molten Corporation provided the official ball for all matches.
AX Armani Exchange Milano were the defending champions.
Umana Reyer Venezia won their 4th title by beating Banco di Sardegna Sassari in game 7 of the finals.