The 2023–24 PBA Commissioner's Cup, also known as the 2023–24
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PBA Commissioner's Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the first conference of the
2023–24 PBA season of the
Philippine Basketball Association
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(PBA). The 21st edition of the
Commissioner's Cup started on November 5, 2023, and ended on February 14, 2024. The tournament allowed teams to hire foreign players or imports with a height limit of .
The opening was originally scheduled on October 15, but was moved three weeks past the original date to give players that participated in the
2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup
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and the
2022 Asian Games
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time to rest.
Guest team and previous Commissioner's Cup runner-up
Bay Area Dragons
The Bay Area Dragons is a basketball team in the East Asia Super League. Based in Hong Kong, the team is meant to represent Greater China.
History
The Dragons were originally formed as the Bay Area Chun Yu Phoenixes as a franchise team for the E ...
were supposed to compete during the conference, but the team was disbanded by their owners, the
East Asia Super League
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, prior to the start of the conference.
Format
* All participating teams played in a single
round-robin elimination, with each team playing 11 games throughout the duration of the conference.
* Teams were ranked by win-loss records with the top eight teams advancing to the playoffs. Any ties were broken using tiebreaker criteria.
** If there is a tie for 8th place, a
one-game playoff
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is instead used to determine which team gets the final playoff spot.
* The playoff formats were as follows:
** Quarterfinals (
twice-to-beat for top four):
*** Matches: 1st vs. 8th, 2nd vs. 7th, 3rd vs. 6th, 4th vs. 5th
** Semifinals (
best-of-five series):
*** Matches: 1st/8th vs. 4th/5th; 2nd/7th vs. 3rd/6th
** Finals (
best-of-seven series
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)
Elimination round
Team standings
Results table
Bracket
Quarterfinals
All match-ups have the higher-seeded team having the
twice-to-beat advantage
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, where they have to be beaten twice, and their opponents just once, to advance.
(1) Magnolia vs. (8) TNT
(2) San Miguel vs. (7) Rain or Shine
(3) Barangay Ginebra vs. (6) NorthPort
(4) Phoenix Super LPG vs. (5) Meralco
Semifinals
All match-ups are
best-of-five playoffs.
(1) Magnolia vs. (4) Phoenix Super LPG
(2) San Miguel vs. (3) Barangay Ginebra
Finals
Imports
The following is the list of
imports
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, 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 whole conference.
Awards
Players of the Week
Statistics
Individual statistical leaders
Local players
Import players
Individual game highs
Local players
Import players
Team statistical leaders
References
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