Sport Basketball Champion Guangdong Southern Tigers Season MVP Mengke Bateer Season champion Guangdong Southern Tigers | Dates 15 Nov 2008 – 3 May 2009 Location China Finals champion Guangdong Southern Tigers | |
League Chinese Basketball Association Duration November 15, 2008 – May 3, 2009 TV partner(s) CCTV-5, and many local channels. Season champions Guangdong Southern Tigers Champions Guangdong Southern Tigers Similar 2001–02 NBA season, 2000–01 NBA season, 2004–05 NBA season, 2003–04 NBA season, 2002–03 NBA season | ||
The 2008–09 CBA season was the 14th CBA season. Guangdong Southern Tigers defended their CBA title after defeating Xinjiang Flying Tigers in the Finals, four games to one.
Tianjin Ronggang were promoted to the CBA after the team owners voted in favor of them over two other candidates, Qingdao DoubleStar and Guangdong Fenglü. Qingdao later replaced Beijing Aoshen for their place in the CBA, when the latter failed to submit relevant files on time and lost their qualification for the season.
Foreign players of each team could play unlimited time each game, except only 5 quarters collectively when facing Bayi Rockets. The two newly promoted teams and the bottom two teams of the last season could each have one extra Asian foreign players.
Playoffs
Teams in bold advanced to the next round. The numbers to the left of each team indicate the team's seeding in regular season, and the numbers to the right indicate the number of games the team won in that round. Home court advantage belongs to the team with the better regular season record; teams enjoying the home advantage are shown in italics.