After communism fell many of the basketball clubs folded as many players left the country to play for foreign teams.

The basketball attendance decreased and the popularity of this sport declined worryingly.

The league was formed less than two years after the Communist Party of Albania gained control of the country, and the sport gradually grew in popularity over the years before experiencing a rapid rise in popularity in the 1970s, leading to most cities and towns in Albania forming their own basketball clubs and building basketball grounds.

Following the fall of communism in 1991 many basketball clubs were forced to fold due to lack of any investment, which led to the decline in the popularity of the sport as a whole in the country.

At the end of the regular season the bottom two clubs miss the play-offs.