The regular season began on January 25, 2018 with the opening ceremonies at the Smart Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City,[1] and ended on March 17.
The playoffs began on March 20 and ended on April 19 when the Batangas City Athletics defeated the Muntinlupa Cagers in four games in the 2018 MPBL finals.
The inaugural season featured ten teams, all based in Luzon, with no division alignment.
Since the MPBL was a semi-professional league at the time, its initial set of roster regulations are made to help promote local talents: The regular season began on January 25, 2018 with the opening ceremony at the Smart Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City.
Daniel San Juan de Guzman of the Parañaque Patriots made the league's first basket in that game.