| 1999–2000 CBA season | |
| League: | Chinese Basketball Association |
| Sport: | Basketball |
| Duration: | November 21, 1999 – March 19, 2000 |
| Tv: | CCTV-5 |
| Season: | Regular Season |
| Season Champs: | Bayi Rockets |
| Mvp: |  Wang Zhizhi |
| Playoffs: | Playoffs |
| Playoffs Link: | 2000 CBA Playoffs |
| Finals: | Finals |
| Finals Champ: | Bayi Rockets |
| Finals Runner-Up: | Shanghai Sharks |
| Promote: | Nanjing Army Thunder Hubei Mailyard |
| Promote From: | Second Division |
| Relegate: | Nanjing Army Thunder Hubei Mailyard |
| Relegate To: | Second Division |
| Finals Mvp: | Wang Zhizhi |
| Seasonslistnames: | CBA |
| Prevseason Link: | 1998–99 CBA season |
| Prevseason Year: | 1998–99 |
| Nextseason Link: | 2000–01 CBA season |
| Nextseason Year: | 2000–01 |
The 1999–2000 CBA season was the fifth CBA season.[1]
The season ran from November 21, 1999, to March 19, 2000. Nanjing Army Thunder and Hubei Mailyard were promoted from the Second Division. Vanguard from the Second Division was merged with Beijing Olympians and the club was known as Vanguard Beijing Olympians for the next several seasons.[2]
| 1999–2000 CBA season | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | ||||||||
| 1 | 21 | 1 | .955 | – | 11–0 | 10–1 | ||
| 2 | 15 | 7 | .682 | 6 | 10–1 | 5–6 | ||
| 3 | 14 | 8 | .636 | 7 | 8–3 | 6–5 | ||
| 4 | 13 | 9 | .591 | 8 | 9–2 | 4–7 | SD 1–1 (169–161) BJ | |
| 5 | 13 | 9 | .591 | 8 | 10–1 | 3–8 | ||
| 6 | 12 | 10 | .545 | 9 | 9–2 | 3–8 | VB 3–1 LN 2–2 JS 1–3 | |
| 7 | 12 | 10 | .545 | 9 | 6–5 | 6–5 | ||
| 8 | 12 | 10 | .545 | 9 | 7–4 | 5–6 | ||
| 9 | 10 | 12 | .455 | 11 | 8–3 | 2–9 | ||
| 10 | 8 | 14 | .364 | 13 | 6–5 | 2–9 | ||
| 11 | Nanjing Army Thunder | 1 | 21 | .091 | 20 | 1–10 | 0–11 | NA 1–1 (197–185) HB |
| 12 | Hubei Mailyard | 1 | 21 | .091 | 20 | 1–10 | 0–11 | |
| Top 8 teams advance to the Playoffs | ||
| Bottom 4 teams advance to the Relegation Round |
The top 8 teams in the regular season advanced to the playoffs.
In the Final series, Bayi Rockets defeated Shanghai Sharks (3-0), and claimed its 5th straight CBA championship.[1] [2]
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.
The bottom 4 teams played the relegation round by round-robin.
Nanjing Army Thunder and Hubei Mailyard were relegated to the Second Division.[2]
| width=180 | Team | width=30 | W | width=30 | L | width=30 | PF | width=30 | PA | width=30 | PD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zhejiang Cyclones | 5 | 1 | 665 | 596 | +69 | ||||||
| Jilin Northeast Tigers | 4 | 2 | 656 | 602 | +54 | ||||||
| Hubei Mailyard | 2 | 4 | 563 | 620 | −57 | ||||||
| Nanjing Army Thunder | 1 | 5 | 546 | 612 | −66 |
| Bottom 2 teams relegated to the Second Division |
| HB | JL | NA | ZJ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hubei Mailyard | – | 97-86 | 74-70 | 96-101 | |
| Jilin Northeast Tigers | 136-108 | – | 114-93 | 117-114 | |
| Nanjing Army Thunder | 107-81 | 94-109 | – | 97-114 | |
| Zhejiang Cyclones | 120-107 | 96-94 | 120-85 | – |