The

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ASEAN Basketball League (ABL) Finals was the best-of-5 championship series of the

2017–18 ABL season The 2017–18 ABL season is the eighth season of competition of the ASEAN Basketball League. The regular season started on 17 November 2017 and ended on 28 March 2018. Teams Five teams from the 2016–2017 ABL season returned for this season. O ...

and the conclusion of the season's playoffs.

Mono Vampire The Mono Vampire Basketball Club () is a Thai basketball team that previously played in the ASEAN Basketball League. They have also participated at the Thailand Basketball League. It is owned by Mono Group, a Thai media and technology conglome ...

and

San Miguel Alab Pilipinas San Miguel Alab Pilipinas (under the corporate name Pilipinas Basketball Club, Inc. or PBCI) is a Filipino professional basketball team which played in the ASEAN Basketball League (ABL) under the sponsorship of San Miguel Corporation. The team ...

competed for the 8th championship contested by the league.
After a decider Game 5,

eventually clinched the club's first franchise championship in its history, and the third ABL Championship that came from the

Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...

Bobby Ray Parks Jr. Bobby Ray Barbosa Parks Jr. (born February 19, 1993) is a Filipino-American professional basketball player for Nagoya Diamond Dolphins of the Japanese B.League. A 6'4" Guard (basketball), guard, he played college basketball for the NU Bulldogs f ...

was named as the Finals MVP after averaging 23 points per game in the finals series.

Background

Head-to-head matchups

This is the first playoff and finals meeting between Alab Pilipinas and Mono Vampire.

Series summary

Game summaries

*All times local;

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for the Philippines, and

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for Thailand

Game 1

Game 2

Game 3

Game 4

Game 5

References

External links

{{ASEAN Basketball League 2017–18 in Philippine basketball leagues 2017–18 ABL season 2017–18 in Thai basketball April 2018 sports events in the Philippines May 2018 sports events in the Philippines