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1976 PBA season

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First Conference champions
  
Crispa Redmanizers

All-Philippine Championship champions
  
Crispa Redmanizers

Number of teams
  
9

TV partner
  
PBA on BBC

Second Conference champions
  
Crispa Redmanizers

Start date
  
1976

Season MVP
  
Bogs Adornado

Duration
  
March 21, 1976 – December 21, 1976

Similar
  
1992 PBA season, 1998 PBA season, 2008–09 PBA season

The 1976 PBA Season was the second season of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).

Contents

Season highlights

  • The Crispa Redmanizers won all three conferences in the year to capped the very first Grand Slam in the PBA.
  • On December 21, Crispa achieved the first PBA Grandslam by winning the All-Philippine championship with a 110-92 win over Toyota Tamaraws in the deciding Game 5 of the finals, the Redmanizers, reinforced by Cyrus Mann and Bill Bunton, were down 0-2 in the series, but won the last three games against their arch rivals, which had Byron "Snake" Jones and Howard Smith as their imports.
  • William "Bogs" Adornado wins his second Most Valuable Player Award. He also became the first player to reach the 2,000 point plateau when he scored 24 points in Crispa's title-clinching 101-100 win over Toyota in Game 4 of the First Conference finals on July 11.
  • The first-ever triple-overtime game took place on August 17, Noritake outlasts Tanduay, 153-151, on a jumper by Hubert Filipinas to decide the league's longest match.
  • Harry Rogers of 7-Up scored 75 points in their 157-134 win over Fiberlite on October 26, to become the first PBA player/import to reach the 75-point output in a single game.

    • Opening ceremonies

    The muses for the participating teams are as follows:

    Champions

  • First Conference: Crispa Redmanizers
  • Second Conference: Crispa Redmanizers
  • All-Philippine Championship: Crispa Redmanizers
  • Team with best win-loss percentage: Crispa (47-15, .758)
  • Best Team of the Year: Crispa Redmanizers (1st)

    • Individual awards

  • Most Valuable Player: Bogs Adornado (Crispa)
  • Rookie of the Year: Gil Cortez (Toyota)
  • Mythical Five:
  • Francis Arnaiz (Toyota)
  • Atoy Co (Crispa)
  • Ramon Fernandez (Toyota)
  • Bogs Adornado (Crispa)
  • Philip Cezar (Crispa)

    • References

    1976 PBA season Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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