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2016
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Philippine Basketball Association
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Governors' Cup, also known as the 2016
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-PBA Governors' Cup for
sponsorship reasons, was the third and last conference of the
2015–16 PBA season. Due to the preparations of the
Philippines men's national basketball team for the
2016 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament, which was held in Manila, the tournament started on July 15 and ended on October 19, 2016.
Rain or Shine sends Ginebra crashing out of quarterfinals
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, April 19, 2016 The tournament allowed teams to hire foreign players or imports with a height limit of for the top eight teams of combined results of the Philippine Cup and Commissioner's Cup, while the bottom four teams are allowed to hire imports with a height limit of . The teams are allowed to hire an additional Asian import with a height limit of .
Format
The tournament format for this conference is as follows:
* 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. In case of tie, playoff games will be held only for the #4 and #8 seeds.
*Quarterfinals (higher seed with the twice-to-beat advantage):
**QF1: #1 seed vs #8 seed
**QF2: #2 seed vs #7 seed
**QF3: #3 seed vs #6 seed
**QF4: #4 seed vs #5 seed
*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
Fourth seed playoff
Eighth seed playoff
Bracket
Quarterfinals
(1) TNT vs. (8) Phoenix
(2) San Miguel vs. (7) NLEX
(3) Barangay Ginebra vs. (6) Alaska
(4) Meralco vs. (5) Mahindra
Semifinals
(1) TNT vs. (4) Meralco
(2) San Miguel vs. (3) Barangay Ginebra
Finals
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 in gold are the imports who stayed with their respective teams for the whole conference. Players with an asterisk indicates the Asian imports.
Import handicapping
*Philippine Cup final ranking comprises 60% of the points, while the elimination round ranking in the Commissioner's Cup is 40%. The four teams with most points gets to have an import of unlimited height.
Statistics
Individual statistic leaders
Awards
Conference
*Best Player of the Conference: Jayson Castro
*Bobby Parks Best Import of the Conference: Allen Durham
*Finals MVP: LA Tenorio
Players of the Week
References
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