Number of teams 6 + 1 Runners-up Burger Machine Runners-up Instafood | Maharlika Cup champions Nikon Home Partners President Ramos Cup champions Burger Machine | |
Duration March 27 - December 22, 1993 People also search for 1994 Philippine Basketball League season |
The 1993 season of the Philippine Basketball League (PBL).
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League crisis
With the massive exodus of top amateur players to the pro ranks, the Philippine Basketball League (PBL) suffered and were in a state of being a slowly dying league, when it opened on March 27 at the Cuneta Astrodome, there was no TV nor radio coverage, the media and the sports pages didn't give the PBL the much needed attention and the biggest stumbling block was no network was willing to air the PBL games and it is still doubtful whether the league will have its own television coverage for the season.
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Participating teams (coach)
Maharlika Cup
Burger Machine and Instafood finish on top of the standings after the eliminations with 7-3 won-loss slates. In the semifinal round, newcomer Nikon Appliances won six of their eight assignments to advance into the championship against Burger Machine. Behind the likes of Noli Locsin, Rey Evangelista, Jeffrey Cariaso and Rudolf Belmonte, Nikon won their first title in their very first participated conference, winning over the Burger Specialists, 3 games to 2, in the finals series.
President Ramos Cup
Burger Machine earn their second trip to the finals in the season, the Chicken Burgers finish the two-round semifinals in a three-way tie with Instafood and Otto Shoes with identical 13 wins and 7 losses, but they automatically clinch the first finals slot by virtue of a better quotient.
Instafood ousted Otto Shoes, 58–56, in a playoff to set up a finals showdown with Burger Machine, the Mealmasters led two games to one, but the Chicken Burgers extended the series by taking Game Four, 85-78, and won their first championship by edging out the Mealmasters, 64–62, in the deciding fifth game.