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(PBA) Governors' Cup, also known as the 2014 PLDT Home TelPad-PBA Governors' Cup for

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. The conference began on May 18 and ended on July 9, 2014. The tournament is an import-laden format, which requires an import or a pure-foreign player for each team, The recruited imports must be not taller than 6 feet and 5 inches for every team. Games in the tournament are televised by TV5 and

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Format

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in September, the league had six playing dates per week and the quotient system was implemented for tiebreakers, instead of playoff games for the #4 and #8 seeds.

Elimination round

Team standings

Schedule

Results

Bracket

Quarterfinals

(1) Talk 'N Text vs. (8) Barako Bull

(2) Rain or Shine vs. (7) Air21

(3) Alaska vs. (6) Barangay Ginebra

(4) San Mig Super Coffee vs. (5) San Miguel

Semifinals

(1) Talk 'N Text vs. (4) San Mig Super Coffee

(2) Rain or Shine vs. (3) Alaska

Finals

Awards

Conference

*Best Player of the Conference:

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) *Best Import of the Conference: Arizona Reid (

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) *Finals MVP: James Yap ( San Mig Super Coffee Mixers)

Players of the Week

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 whole conference.

References

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