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2016 PBA Commissioner's Cup

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Runners-up
  
Alaska Aces

Duration
  
February 10 – May 18, 2016

TV partner(s)
  
Local: Sports5 TV5 Fox Sports Cignal PPV (HD) Hyper (HD) International: AksyonTV International

Champions
  
Rain or Shine Elasto Painters

Best Player
  
Calvin Abueva (Alaska Aces)

Best Import
  
Arinze Onuaku (Meralco Bolts)

The 2016 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Commissioner's Cup, also known as the 2016 Oppo-PBA Commissioner's Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the second conference of the 2015–16 PBA season. The tournament allowed teams to hire foreign players or imports with a height limit of 6'9" for the top eight teams of the 2015–16 PBA Philippine Cup, while the bottom four teams were allowed to hire imports with no height limit.

Contents

Format

Due to the preparations of the Philippines men's national basketball team for the upcoming 2016 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament, the opening of Governors' Cup will be moved at the conclusion of the FIBA tournament.

The following format was observed for the duration of the conference:

  • 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. In case of tie, playoff games will be held only for the #2 and #8 seeds.
  • Quarterfinals:
  • QF1: #1 vs #8 (#1 twice-to-beat)
  • QF2: #2 vs #7 (#2 twice-to-beat)
  • QF3: #3 vs #6 (best-of-3 series)
  • QF4: #4 vs #5 (best-of-3 series)
  • Semifinals (best-of-5 series):
  • SF1: QF1 Winner vs. QF4 Winner
  • SF2: QF2 Winner vs. QF3 Winner
  • Finals (best-of-7 series)
  • F1: SF1 Winner vs SF2 Winner

    • Schedule

      Win
      OT Win
      Loss
      OT Loss

    Results

      Win
      OT Win
      Loss
      OT Loss

    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 are the imports who stayed with their respective teams for the whole conference.

    Conference

  • Best Player of the Conference: Calvin Abueva (Alaska Aces)
  • Bobby Parks Best Import of the Conference: Arinze Onuaku (Meralco Bolts)
  • Finals MVP: Paul Lee (Rain or Shine Elasto Painters)

    • References

    2016 PBA Commissioner's Cup Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA