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, April 19, 2016 The tournament allowed teams to hire foreign players or imports with a height limit of for the top eight teams of combined results of the Philippine Cup and Commissioner's Cup, while the bottom four teams are allowed to hire imports with a height limit of . The teams are allowed to hire an additional Asian import with a height limit of .

Format

The tournament format for this conference is as follows: * Single-round robin eliminations; 11 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, playoff games will be held only for the #4 and #8 seeds. *Quarterfinals (higher seed with the twice-to-beat advantage): **QF1: #1 seed vs #8 seed **QF2: #2 seed vs #7 seed **QF3: #3 seed vs #6 seed **QF4: #4 seed vs #5 seed *Semifinals (best-of-5 series): **SF1: QF1 vs. QF4 winners **SF2: QF2 vs. QF3 winners *Finals (best-of-7 series) **Winners of the semifinals

Elimination round

Team standings

Schedule

Results

Fourth seed playoff

Eighth seed playoff

Bracket

Quarterfinals

(1) TNT vs. (8) Phoenix

(2) San Miguel vs. (7) NLEX

(3) Barangay Ginebra vs. (6) Alaska

(4) Meralco vs. (5) Mahindra

Semifinals

(1) TNT vs. (4) Meralco

(2) San Miguel vs. (3) Barangay Ginebra

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 in gold are the imports who stayed with their respective teams for the whole conference. Players with an asterisk indicates the Asian imports.

Import handicapping

*Philippine Cup final ranking comprises 60% of the points, while the elimination round ranking in the Commissioner's Cup is 40%. The four teams with most points gets to have an import of unlimited height.

Statistics

Individual statistic leaders

Awards

Conference

*Best Player of the Conference:

Jayson Castro Jayson Castro William (born June 30, 1986) is a Filipino professional basketball player for the TNT Tropang Giga of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). His moniker is "The Blur" for his speed. He played for the Philippine Christian Un ...

*Bobby Parks Best Import of the Conference:

Allen Durham Allen Isiah Jeremiah Durham (born July 9, 1988), nicknamed Hulk, is an American professional basketball player for Ryukyu Golden Kings of the Japanese B.League. Allen owns the Grand Rapids Danger of the North American Basketball League and runs ...

*Finals MVP:

LA Tenorio Lewis Alfred Vasquez Tenorio (born July 9, 1984) is a Filipino professional basketball player for the Barangay Ginebra San Miguel of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). He is also an assistant coach for the Letran Knights of the Philipp ...

Players of the Week

References

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