2012–13 NBB season

The 2012–13 NBB season was the fifth edition of Novo Basquete Brasil, the Brazilian basketball league. This tournament is organized entirely by the Liga Nacional de Basquete. The NBB serves as a qualifying competition for international tournaments such as Liga Sudamericana and Torneo InterLigas. For this season the qualify for the FIBA Americas League came to be through the Liga Sudamericana.
This season has a record number of participating teams, with eighteen teams playing each other in round and second round in the regular season. At the end of two rounds the top four teams qualify for the quarterfinals of the playoffs automatically, while the teams finishing in the 5th and 12th place participated in the first round of the playoffs to determine the other four teams in the quarterfinals, best of five matches, advances to the next phase who win three games.
For this season, the LNB added a new feature: the last two regular season placed will dispute a four-group against the two finalists in the Super Copa Brasil de Basquete. The two top finishers in this group receive the right to contest the next NBB.

Participating teams

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity	Head coach	Season
Sky/Basquete Cearense	Fortaleza	Ginásio Paulo Sarasate	9,000	Alberto Bial	1st
Paschoalotto/Bauru	Bauru	Ginásio Panela de Pressão	3,000	Guerrinha	5th
UniCEUB/BRB/Brasília	Brasília	Ginásio da ASCEB Ginásio Nilson Nelson	3,050 16,000	José Carlos Vidal	5th
Flamengo	Rio de Janeiro	Ginásio Álvaro Vieira Lima	4,500	José Alves Neto	5th
Vivo/Franca	Franca	Ginásio Pedrocão	6,000	Lula Ferreira	5th
Cia do Terno/Romaço/Joinville	Joinville	Centreventos Cau Hansen	4,000	Ênio Vecchi	5th
Liga Sorocabana	Sorocaba	Ginásio Gualberto Moreira	3,000	Rinaldo Rodrigues	2nd
Winner/Kabum/Limeira	Limeira	Ginásio Vô Lucato	1,800	Demétrius Ferracciú	4th
Icatu/Minas	Belo Horizonte	Arena Vivo	4,000	Raul Togni Filho	5th
Mogi das Cruzes/Helbor	Mogi das Cruzes	Ginásio Municipal Professor Hugo Ramos	5,000	Paco García	1st
Palmeiras	São Paulo	Ginásio Palestra Itália	1,500	Arturo Álvarez	1st
Paulistano/Unimed	São Paulo	Ginásio Antônio Prado Junior	1,500	Gustavo de Conti	5th
Pinheiros/Sky	São Paulo	Poliesportivo Henrique Villaboim	854	Cláudio Mortari	5th
São José/Unimed	São José dos Campos	Ginásio Lineu de Moura	2,620	Régis Marrelli	5th
Suzano/Cesumar/Campestre	Suzano	Ginásio Paulo Portela	1,500	Cadum	1st
Tijuca/Rio de Janeiro	Rio de Janeiro	Ginásio Álvaro Vieira Lima	4,500	Eldio Leal	2nd
Unitri/Universo/Uberlândia	Uberlândia	Ginásio Homero Santos	3,500	Hélio Rubens Garcia	3rd
Vila Velha/Garoto/UVV	Vila Velha	Ginásio Municipal João Goulart	3,500	Daniel Wattfy	5th

Managerial changes

Regular season

League table

Results

NBB All-Star Weekend

This season, the All-Star Weekend will be played in Ginásio Nilson Nelson in Brasília on March 1–2, 2013. In the first day of the event, it will be disputed the "Dunk Tournament", "Three-Point Tournament" and "Skills Challenge". In these three tournaments, the champions in the previous season are already included, while the other participating players will compete for the remaining spots. The players of Brasília, the host team, are also included at these tournaments.
In the second day, it will occur the main event on the weekend, the NBB All-Star Game, which will be disputed by two teams divided into "NBB Brasil", formed by Brazilian players, and "NBB Mundo", formed by foreign players. On February 6, the Liga Nacional de Basquete announced the players that will make up the teams NBB Brasil and NBB Mundo, which will compete in the fifth edition of the All-Star Game of the national competition. In all, 85 votes were counted. Different professionals who participated in the election had assigned different weights. The coaches of the 18 teams vying for the NBB accounted for 50%, the captains of the teams were left with 20%, while the specialist press and the personalities of basketball had 30% weight. The starter players will be chosen by votes on the internet.

Dunk Tournament

For Dunk Tournament, the champion in the previous season was the shooting guard Gui Deodato, from Bauru, while the host team, Brasília, will be represented by the shooting guard Isaac Gonçalves. The other challengers to the title was defined after being evaluated by a jury of personalities from the artistic and basketball. The judges evaluated each participant a dunk and choose two athletes. The fifth element was set after a popular vote on the Internet. The two finalists were the champion of the previous season Gui Deodato and the shooting guard Danilo Fuzaro. Using the cover of the character Batman and a mask of the famous villain Darth Vader, Gui Deodato won the tournament.

Player	First round	Finals
Gui Deodato	50+49=99	50+46=96
Danilo Fuzaro	50+49=99	31+50=81
Isaac	47+44=91
Desmond Holloway	42+42=84
Jefferson Socas	46+37=83

Three-Point Tournament

The tournament will have six competitors for the title. The champion of previous season Helinho, from Uberlândia, and Rossi, from the host city team, had already been secured in the dispute and its four rivals was decided after the completion of qualifying, which was played between matches of the NBB on February 14 and February 16. In the final, which featured Matheus Dalla, from Limeira, and Matheus Costa, from Basquete Cearense, it was necessary two tiebreaks to know the champion. In the second tiebreak Matheus Dalla won his first Three-Point Tournament.

Skills Challenge

The Skills Challenge, which will be played for the third time, will have the presence of double champion Fernando Penna, from Pinheiros, the guard Eric Tatu, from the host team Brasília, and six more competitors which was determined by the LNB Technical Department. In the final, Fernando Penna, for the third consecutive time, won the challenge, against the point guard Gustavinho, Mogi das Cruzes.

Player	First round	Finals
Fernando Penna	24.8	23.4
Gustavinho	26.5	35.3
Kenny Dawkins	26.7
Marcellus	26.8
Fúlvio	27.4
Jefferson Campos	29.8
Victor Correia	33.0
Eric Tatu	33.7

NBB All-Star Game

On February 25, the election on the Internet finished, and the starter players were defined, according to the official site of NBB All-Star Game.
Jeff Agba, from Bauru, was originally selected to take part in the NBB Mundo team, but he injured and was replaced by Tyrone Curnell, from Palmeiras, while Guilherme Giovannoni, from Brasília, also was taken out of the game because of damage in his thigh, and for his place was named Jefferson William, from São José.

Roster

¹Replacing Guilherme Giovannoni
²Replacing Jeff Agba

Game

Playoffs