Eighth PBA season
Sports season
The 1982 PBA season was the eighth season of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).
Board of governors
Executive committee
Teams
Season highlights
- The start of the year saw the league's membership reduced from 10 teams to just 8, following the disbandment of CDCP and Tefilin franchises.
- Vintage Enterprises Inc. took over the league's television coverage beginning this season.
- The PBA implement for the first time a playoff post-eliminations format with a series of best-of-three quarterfinals, best-of-five semifinals and best-of-seven finals to determine the champion in the Reinforced Filipino Conference.
- Toyota Super Corollas won two championships in the year, capped by center Ramon Fernandez winning his first Most Valuable Player Award.
- San Miguel Beer won the Invitational championship over Crispa Redmanizers for the franchise' 2nd PBA title.
- Baby Dalupan resigned as Crispa head coach after the Redmanizers got eliminated in the third conference. This season became the second time the multi-titled ballclub did not win any championship. [1]
- Leo Prieto and Domingo Itchon stepped down as the league commissioner and board president respectively at the end of the season.
All-Star series
A PBA North vs South All-Star series were held in Cebu City and Manila. The North and South team split their two-game series. Emerging as the All-Star MVP was Toyota's Arnie Tuadles, who scored 50 points in the first match.
Opening ceremonies
The muses for the participating teams are as follows:
Champions
Reinforced Filipino Conference
Elimination round
Playoffs
Finals
Invitational championship
Elimination round
Third-place playoffs
Finals
Open Conference
Elimination round
Quarterfinal round
Semifinal round
- ^ a b Second-seed playoff: Toyota 114–87 N-Rich
Finals
Awards
Cumulative standings
References
- ^ "Looking back: The PBA's history". Manila Standard.
