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Format

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Snow Badua, PBA.ph, October 2, 2014 * 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. Ties are broken among head-to-head records of the tied teams. *Quarterfinals: **QF1: #1 seed vs #8 seed (#1 seed twice-to-beat) **QF2: #2 seed vs #7 seed (#2 seed twice-to-beat) **QF3: #3 seed vs #6 seed (best-of-3 series) **QF4: #4 seed vs #5 seed (best-of-3 series) *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

Bracket

Quarterfinals

(1) Rain or Shine vs. (8) Barangay Ginebra

(2) Talk 'N Text vs. (7) Barako Bull

(3) Purefoods Star vs. (6) Alaska

(4) NLEX vs. (5) Meralco

Semifinals

(1) Rain or Shine vs. (5) Meralco

(2) Talk 'N Text vs. (3) Purefoods Star

Finals

Awards

Conference

*Best Player of the Conference:

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) *Bobby Parks Best Import of the Conference:

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) *Finals MVP:

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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.

Import handicapping

References

External links

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{{PBA Commissioner's Cup PBA Commissioner's Cup Commissioner's Cup