The2020–21 Slovenian Basketball League, also known asLiga Nova KBM due to sponsorship reasons, was the 30th season of thePremier A Slovenian Basketball League.

In the first phase, ten teams competed in a home-and-away round-robin series (18 games total). Teams advanced from the regular season to one of two postseason stages, depending on their league position.

The top five teams from the regular season advanced to the championship phase.Cedevita Olimpija started their competition from this phase. These teams started the second phase from scratch, with no results carrying over from the regular season. Each team played a total of 10 games in this phase; as in the regular season, a home-and-away round-robin was used.

The last five teams entered a home-and-away round-robin playout-league where two best teams qualify to quarterfinals. Since KK Koper Primorska had been already disqualified, each team played 6 games in this phase instead of 8. The last team was relegated.^[1]

Eight teams joined the playoffs.

KK Triglav Kranj was promoted.

Commission of theBasketball Federation of Slovenia hasn't been approved the licence forKK Koper Primorska.^[2] On June 30, after club's appeal the licence was granted.^[3]

On December 23,Koper Primorska.decided to withdraw from theLiga Nova KBM because of the club's financial instability. All their matches were declared with score 0-20.^[4]

Helios

Hopsi

Krka

Koper Primorska

Terme Olimia

Rogaška

Šenčur

Šentjur

Triglav

Cedevita Olimpija

Zlatorog

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Location of teams in the 2020–21 Slovenian Basketball League

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Terme Olimia Podčetrtek	Bojan Lazić	End of contract	–	Pre-season	Davor Brečko	14 August 2020[5]

Seeded teams played at home games 1, 3 and, in the finals, 5.

• Dino Murić (GGD Šenčur)

• Dino Murić (GGD Šenčur)

• Kendrick Perry (Cedevita Olimpija)

Performance Index Rating [edit] Pos Player Club PIR 1 Dino Murić Šenčur 24.22 2 David Nichols Rogaška 20.03 3 Logan Routt Zlatorog 19.90

Points [edit] Pos Player Club PPG 1 David Nichols Rogaška 19.39 1 Dino Murić Šenčur 18.39 3 Malcolm Bernard Rogaška 17.59

Rebounds [edit] Pos Player Club RPG 1 Aaron Carver Hopsi Polzela 11.87 2 Dino Murić Šenčur 11.72 3 Logan Routt Zlatorog 10.25

Assists [edit] Pos Player Club APG 1 Daniel Vujasinović Helios Suns 6.48 2 David Nichols Rogaška 6.45 3 Žan Kosić Hopsi Polzela 6.08

• 2020–21 KK Cedevita Olimpija season

• Slovenian Basketball Federation

• Slovenian Basketball League seasons
• 2020–21 in European basketball leagues
• 2020–21 in Slovenian basketball

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• Articles with short description
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