Assertion: basketball league's season | /r/HasProperty | the first
Facets:
value: under this new format
type: OTHER
value: with playing that season
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: The 1998–99 season, which began only months later, was the first to be played during the summer season (October–April).
text: The 1978–79 season was the first to adopt the post-season playoff format, while a year later the National Trophy was created.
text: The 2016–17 season was the first in which the NBA held an awards show after the completion of the Finals, during which the winners of all season-long individual awards are announced except for the winner of the J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award, which continued to be announced during the playoffs until 2017 and in 2018 was announced after the playoffs but before the awards show.
text: The 2004–05 season was the first under this new format, with 37 teams playing that season.