Second conference of the 2013–14 PBA season
The 2014 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Commissioner's Cup, also known as the 2014 PLDT Home TVolution-PBA Commissioner's Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the second conference of the 2013–14 PBA season. The tournament started on March 5, 2014 and finished on May 15, 2014. The tournament allows teams to hire foreign players or imports with a height limit of 6'11" for the bottom two of the last conference, and a limit of 6'9" for other teams.[1]
Format
The following format was observed for the duration of the conference:
- Single-round robin eliminations; 9 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, playoffs will be held only for the #2 and #8 seeds.
- Quarterfinals:
- QF1: #1 seed vs #8 seed (#1 seed twice-to-beat)
- QF2: #2 seed vs #7 seed (#2 seed twice-to-beat)
- QF3: #3 seed vs #6 seed (best-of-3 series)
- QF4: #4 seed vs #5 seed (best-of-3 series)
- Semifinals (best-of-5 series):
- SF1: QF1 vs. QF4 winners
- SF2: QF2 vs. QF3 winners
- Finals (best-of-5 series)
- Winners of the semifinals
Elimination round
Team standings
Source: PBA.ph
Notes:
- ^ a b Head-to-head record: Rain or Shine 1–0 Meralco
- ^ a b Head-to-head record: Air21 1–0 Barangay Ginebra
Schedule
Results
Source:
[citation needed]Legend: Blue = left column team win; Red = top row team win.
Matches with lighter background shading were decided after overtime.
Bracket
**double overtime
Quarterfinals
(1) Talk 'N Text vs. (8) Barangay Ginebra
(2) San Miguel vs. (7) Air21
(3) Alaska vs. (6) San Mig Super Coffee
(4) Rain or Shine vs. (5) Meralco
Semifinals
(1) Talk 'N Text vs. (4) Rain or Shine
(6) San Mig Super Coffee vs. (7) Air21
Finals
Awards
Conference
Players of the Week
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.
References
- ^ "Philippine Basketball Association | Official Website of the Philippine Basketball Association". Archived from the original on 2013-12-16. Retrieved 2013-12-18.
- ^ SOLID START Archived 2014-03-11 at the Wayback Machine, PBA.inquirer.net, March 11, 2014
- ^ FEARLESS ROOKIE Archived 2014-03-17 at the Wayback Machine, PBA.inquirer.net, March 17, 2014
- ^ TNT’S ROCK Archived 2014-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, PBA.inquirer.net, March 25, 2014
- ^ “LEE-THAL” PERFORMANCE Archived 2014-04-24 at the Wayback Machine, PBA.inquirer.net, April 21, 2014
- ^ AWESOME TWOSOME Archived 2014-04-29 at the Wayback Machine, PBA.inquirer.net, April 28, 2014
- ^ ‘ENERGIZER’ SHOOTS LIGHTS OUT IN SEMIS Archived 2014-05-12 at the Wayback Machine, PBA.inquirer.net, May 5, 2014
- ^ Badua, Snow. "Ginebra bringing in Gabe Freeman in bid to salvage campaign after Josh Powell exit". SPIN.ph. Archived from the original on 2014-04-15. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
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