2015 PBA Governors' Cup

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Duration May 5 – July 17, 2015 Runners-up Alaska Aces Start date May 2015		Champions San Miguel Beermen Champion San Miguel Beermen Best player June Mar Fajardo

TV partner(s) Local:Sports5TV5AksyonTVFox SportsInternational:AksyonTV International Best Import Romeo Travis(Alaska Aces) Finals MVP June Mar Fajardo(San Miguel Beermen) Similar 2015 PBA Commissioner's Cup, 2014–15 PBA Philippin, 2016 NBA Finals

The 2015 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Governors' Cup, also known as the 2015 PLDT Home TVolution-PBA Governors' Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the third and last conference of the 2014–15 PBA season. The tournament began on May 5, 2015 and ended on July 17, 2015. The tournament allows teams to hire foreign players or imports with a height limit of 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) for the top eight teams of combined results of the Philippine Cup and Commissioner's Cup, while the bottom four teams will be allowed to hire imports with no height limit. The teams were allowed to hire an additional Asian import with a height limit of 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m).

Format

The tournament format for this conference is as follows:

Single-round robin eliminations; 11 games per team; Teams are then seeded by basis on win-loss records.

Top eight teams will advance to the quarterfinals. Ties are broken among head-to-head records of the tied teams.

Quarterfinals (higher seed with the twice-to-beat advantage):

QF1: #1 seed vs #8 seed

QF2: #2 seed vs #7 seed

QF3: #3 seed vs #6 seed

QF4: #4 seed vs #5 seed

Semifinals (best-of-5 series):

SF1: QF1 vs. QF4 winners

SF2: QF2 vs. QF3 winners

Finals (best-of-7 series)

Winners of the semifinals

Team standings

y – clinched twice to beat in the quarterfinals, w – clinched twice to win in the quarterfinals, e – eliminated

Schedule

Win
Loss

Results

Win
OT Win
Loss
OT Loss

Bracket

*Game went into overtime

^a The number of asterisks denotes the number of overtime(s) occurred.

Conference

Best Player of the Conference: June Mar Fajardo (San Miguel Beermen)

Best Import of the Conference: Romeo Travis (Alaska Aces)

Finals MVP: June Mar Fajardo (San Miguel Beermen)

Imports

The following is the list of imports, which had played for their respective teams at least once, with the returning imports in italics. Highlighted in gold are the imports who stayed with their respective teams for the whole conference. Players with an asterisk indicates the Asian imports.

Import handicapping

Philippine Cup final ranking comprises 60% of the points, while the elimination round ranking in the Commissioner's Cup is 40%. The four teams with most number of points gets to have an import of unlimited height.

References

2015 PBA Governors' Cup Wikipedia

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