菲律宾PBA委员杯

菲律宾PBA委员杯

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The PBA Commissioner's Cup is a tournament of the Philippine Basketball Association. Along with the PBA Governors' Cup, the tournament (also named as "conference") is one of the two competitions in a PBA season that allows teams to hire a single foreign player, also known as an "import". The tournament was first held in 1993 as the PBA season's second competition.

The tournament was discontinued when the Invitational Championship was reintroduced in 2003. From 2004 to 2010, the league decreased their tournaments per season from three to two competitions; one All-Filipino tournament, named as the Philippine Cup and one with imports, named as the Fiesta Conference The tournament was re-instated in 2011 as the second competition of the PBA season after the league re-adopted the three conference format.

The Commissioner's Cup also refers to the trophy awarded to the champion team.

History

1993–1998

During the 1993 PBA season, the league moved the All-Filipino Conference as the first tournament of the season and made the Second Conference as the Commissioner's Cup, a reference to the PBA Commissioner. The conference was the second tournament held in a PBA season.

The Swift/Sunkist franchise won the tournament in 1993 and 1995. Purefoods, with Kenny Redfield as import and Chot Reyes as head coach, defeated Alaska in 1994.

During Alaska's grandslam season of 1996, they won the Commissioners Cup title over Shell in a grueling seven-game series. The Gordon's Gin Boars ended their six-year drought, winning over the Milkmen in 1997, giving playing coach Robert Jaworski his last PBA title on both capacities. A year later, Alaska had Devin Davis as import to win the title over San Miguel.

1999–2002

From 1999 to 2000, San Miguel won the Commissioners Cup with Terquin Mott and Stephen Howard as imports. But in 2001, the Beermen were upset by the Red Bull Thunder, with Best Import Antonio Lang in six games.

In 2002, with most of the teams' star players are with the national squad, the PBA once again allowed teams to take two imports with a combined 13 feet and six inches maximum height limit. Red Bull won the series over Talk 'N Text in seven games, its second straight. No team has won two straight Commissioner's Cups since then.

2010s

The tournament was retired in 2003 after the re-introduction of the Invitational Championship as the second conference of the season but was eventually reactivated in 2011 after the league restored the three-conference season format. The 2011 Commissioner's Cup also saw the return of Smart Gilas, the Philippine national team, to the PBA after last playing in the 2009–10 Philippine Cup. They became the first national team to qualify for the playoffs. However, they would be defeated by the Barangay Ginebra Kings in the semifinals. The Kings would then lose to the Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters in the Finals in six games.

2020s

In 2020, the Commissioner's Cup was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The following season saw only two conferences, the Philippine Cup and the Governors' Cup. It made its return during the 2022–23 season. In this season, the Bay Area Dragons joined the league as a guest team. Although they had they finished first in the standings in the elimination rounds, they would lose to Ginebra in the Finals. For the 2023–24 season, the Commissioner's Cup was the opening tournament.

菲律宾PBA委员杯是菲律宾最具盛名的篮球锦标赛之一。该锦标赛由菲律宾篮球协会(PBA)主办,旨在展示菲律宾篮球运动的精彩和激烈竞争。

菲律宾PBA委员杯吸引了来自全国各地的顶级篮球俱乐部参赛,包括马尼拉、宿务、达沃等地的球队。这些球队由一些最优秀的菲律宾篮球运动员组成,他们在比赛中展现出高水平的技术和战术。

比赛通常在菲律宾各大体育馆举行,吸引了大量的篮球爱好者和球迷。观众们会为自己支持的球队欢呼助威,营造出一种激烈而充满热情的比赛氛围。

菲律宾PBA委员杯的比赛形式采用循环赛和季后赛的结合。在循环赛中,各支球队会进行多场比赛,争夺积分榜的前列。而季后赛则是决定最终冠军的阶段,其中包括淘汰赛和决赛。

这项锦标赛不仅仅是一场篮球比赛,还是菲律宾体育文化的一部分。它展示了菲律宾人对篮球的热爱和执着,也为年轻的篮球运动员提供了一个展示自己才华的舞台。

菲律宾PBA委员杯不仅在菲律宾国内备受关注,也吸引了国际篮球界的目光。它为菲律宾篮球运动的发展做出了重要贡献,并成为了菲律宾篮球的象征之一。无论是球员还是球迷,都对这项锦标赛充满了期待和热情。