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Philippine Basketball Association
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(PBA)
Governors' Cup, also known as the 2017
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-PBA Governors' Cup for
sponsorship reasons, was the third and last conference of the
2016–17 PBA season. The tournament started on July 19 and ended on October 27, 2017. The tournament allowed teams to hire foreign players or imports with a height limit of .
Due to the
FIBA Asia Cup
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, the league decided to temporarily shelve signing up Asian imports.
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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, a playoff game will be held only for the #8 seed.
*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
Bracket
Quarterfinals
(1) Meralco vs. (8) Blackwater
(2) TNT vs. (7) Rain or Shine
(3) Barangay Ginebra vs. (6) San Miguel
(4) Star vs. (5) NLEX
Semifinals
(1) Meralco vs. (4) Star
(2) TNT 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.
Awards
Conference
*Best Player of the Conference: Greg Slaughter
*Bobby Parks Best Import of the Conference: Allen Durham
Players of the Week
References
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