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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) Governors' Cup, was the third and last conference of the

2011–12 PBA season The 2011–12 PBA season was the 37th season of the Philippine Basketball Association. The season was formally opened on October 2, 2011 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum, and finished on August 5, 2012. The season used three-conference format, starti ...

. The tournament started on May 20 and culminated on August 5 with the Rain or Shine Elasto Painters team defeating the B-Meg Llamados team by 4 games to 3. The tournament was an import-laden format, which allowed an import or a pure-foreign player for each team and with a height limit of 6-foot-5.

Format

The following format was observed for the duration of the conference:PBA reverts to old-school format for 2012 Governors’ Cup
, InterAKTV, May 19, 2012 * Single-round robin eliminations; 9 games per team; Teams are then seeded by basis on win–loss records. * The top six teams after the eliminations will advance to the semifinals. In case of a tie, a playoff will be held only for the #6 seed. * Semifinals will be a single round-robin affair with the remaining six teams. Results from the eliminations will be carried over. A playoff incentive for a finals berth will be given to the team that will win at least four of their five semifinal games that does not finish within the top two. In case of a tie, a playoff will be held only for the #2 seed. * The top two teams (or the #1 team and the winner of the playoff between team with at least 4 semifinal wins and the #2 team) will face each other in a best-of-seven championship series.

Elimination round

Team standings

Schedule

Results

Sixth seed playoffs

Semifinal round

Team standings

Schedule

Results

Finals berth playoff

Finals

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 entire conference.

Awards

Conference

*Best Player of the Conference:

Mark Caguioa Mark Anthony Yu Caguioa (born November 19, 1979) is a Filipino professional basketball player who last played for the Barangay Ginebra San Miguel of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). Known as The Spark and as MC47 from his initials an ...

(

Barangay Ginebra Kings A barangay (; abbreviated as Brgy. or Bgy.), historically referred to as barrio (abbreviated as Bo.), is the smallest administrative division in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village, district, or ward. In metropolita ...

) *Best Import of the Conference:

Jamelle Cornley Jamelle Cornley (born April 18, 1987) is an American professional basketball player for Club Malvín of the Liga Uruguaya de Básquetbol in Uruguay. He played collegiately at Penn State. He played as an import for the Rain or Shine Elasto Paint ...

( Rain or Shine Elasto Painters) *Finals MVP: Jeffrei Chan ( Rain or Shine Elasto Painters)

Players of the Week

References

External links

PBA.ph
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PBA Governors Cup The PBA Governors' Cup is a tournament of the Philippine Basketball Association. Along with the PBA Commissioner's Cup, the tournament is one of the two conferences that allows teams to hire a single foreign player, also known as an "import". The ...

Governors Cup