The 2010-11

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

(PBA) Philippine Cup was the first conference of the 2010-11 PBA season. The tournament started on October 3, 2010, with the new team,

Meralco Bolts The Meralco Bolts is a professional basketball team in the Philippine Basketball Association. The team began in 2010 after the Manila Electric Company (MERALCO) acquired the PBA franchise of the Sta. Lucia Realtors. The team is one of thre ...

defeating the Brgy. Ginebra Kings in the opening game. The tournament is an All-Filipino format, which doesn't require an import or a pure-foreign player for each team.

Format

The following format was observed for the duration of the conference: *The teams were divided into 2 groups.Gin Kings, Bolts square off in PBA's 36th season opener
GMANews.TV, September 14, 2010 Group A: # Air21 Express # Alaska Aces #

Barangay Ginebra Kings The barangay (; abbreviated as Brgy. or Bgy.), historically referred to as ''barrio'', is the smallest administrative division in the Philippines. Named after the precolonial polities of the same name, modern barangays are political subdivisio ...

Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters The TNT Tropang 5G is a professional basketball team currently owned by Smart Communications, a subsidiary of the PLDT, Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT), playing in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) since 1990. The ...

Group B: #

Barako Bull Energy Boosters The Barako Bull Energy Boosters were a professional basketball team of the Philippine Basketball Association owned by the Photokina Marketing Corporation. They entered the league in 2000, after a successful stint in the semi-professional Phili ...

# B-Meg Derby Ace Llamados #

Powerade Tigers The Powerade Tigers were a professional basketball team that played in the Philippine Basketball Association from 2002 to 2012. The franchise was owned by Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines, Inc. (CCBPI) when the company acquired Cosmos Bottling Cor ...

Rain or Shine Elasto Painters The Rain or Shine Elasto Painters are a professional basketball team in the Philippine Basketball Association owned by Asian Coatings Philippines, Inc. It debuted in the league in the 2006–07 PBA season after acquiring the franchise righ ...

San Miguel Beermen The San Miguel Beermen are a professional basketball team in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). It is one of three PBA clubs owned by the San Miguel Corporation group of companies along with Barangay Ginebra San Miguel and Magnolia ...

*Teams in a group will play against each other once and against teams in the other group twice; 14 games per team; Teams are then seeded by basis on win–loss records. Ties are broken among point differentials of the tied teams. Standings will be determined in one league table; teams do not qualify by basis of groupings. The top eight teams will advance to the quarterfinals. *Quarterfinal phase: **QF1: #1 vs. #8, with #1 having the twice-to-beat advantage **QF2: #2 vs. #7, with #2 having the twice-to-beat advantage **QF3: #3 vs. #6 in a best-of three series **QF4: #4 vs. #5 in a best-of three series *Best-of-seven semifinals: **SF1: QF1 vs. QF4 **SF2: QF2 vs. QF3 *Best-of-seven finals: winners of the semifinals.

Elimination round

Team standings

Schedule

Bracket

Quarterfinals

(1) Talk 'N Text vs. (8) Rain or Shine

(2) San Miguel vs. (7) Air21

(3) B-Meg Derby Ace vs. (6) Meralco

(4) Barangay Ginebra vs. (5) Alaska

Semifinals

(1) Talk 'N Text vs. (4) B-Meg Derby Ace

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

Finals

Conference records

:''Records marked with an asterisk (*) were accomplished with one or more

overtime Overtime is the amount of time someone works beyond normal working hours. The term is also used for the pay received for this time. Normal hours may be determined in several ways: *by custom (what is considered healthy or reasonable by society) ...

periods.''

Team

Individual

Awards

Conference

*Best Player of the Conference: Jay Washington ( San Miguel) *Finals MVP:

Jimmy Alapag Jim Olmedo Alapag (born December 30, 1977) is a Filipino-American professional basketball coach and former player. He serves as the player development coach for the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is nicknamed ...

and

Jayson Castro Jayson Castro William (born June 30, 1986) is a Filipino professional basketball player for the TNT Tropang 5G of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). His moniker is "The Blur" for his speed. He played for the Philippine Christian Uni ...

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Players of the Week

Statistical leaders

Entire conference

Eliminations

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

References

External links

PBA.ph: Official website

PBA Online: A PBA fansite
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