The 1982 PBA season was the eighth season of the

Philippine Basketball Association The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) is a men's professional basketball league in the Philippines composed of twelve company-branded franchised teams. Founded in 1975, it is the first professional basketball league in Asia and is the se ...

(PBA).

Board of governors

Executive committee

* Leopoldo L. Prieto (Commissioner) * Domingo Y. Itchon (President, representing YCO-Tanduay)

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. *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:

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* Invitational Conference: San Miguel Beermen * Open Conference:

* Team with best win–loss percentage: San Miguel Beermen (40-26, .606) * Best Team of the Year:

(4th & Final)

Reinforced Filipino Conference

Elimination round

Playoffs

Finals

*Best Import of the Conference:

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Invitational Championship

Elimination round

Third place playoffs

Finals

Open Conference

Elimination round

Quarterfinal round

Semifinal round

Finals

*Best Import of the Conference: Donnie Ray Koonce (

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Awards

* Most Valuable Player:

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(Toyota) * Rookie of the Year: Marte Saldaña (San Miguel) * Best Import-Reinforced Conference:

(San Miguel) * Best Import-Open Conference: Donnie Ray Koonce (Toyota) * Mythical Five: **

Francis Arnaiz Francis C. Arnaiz (born June 4, 1951) is a Filipino former basketball player. He is best known as a PBA player, playing for Toyota and Ginebra San Miguel from 1975-1986. Early basketball years Arnaiz had a love for sports and was shooting s ...

(Toyota) **

Atoy Co Fortunato "Atoy" Gan Co Jr. (born October 15, 1951) is a Filipino former basketball player and coach who played 13 seasons in the Philippine Basketball Association, mostly with Crispa Redmanizers. Nicknamed "The Fortune Cookie" (a pun on his n ...

(Crispa) **

(Toyota) **

Bogs Adornado William "Bogs" Adornado (born May 26, 1951) is a Filipino former basketball player and coach. He is one of the Philippine Basketball Association's Greatest Players and was inducted to its Hall of Fame in 2005. He was a three-time PBA Most Va ...

(U/Tex) **

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(Toyota)

Cumulative standings

References

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