The 2024–25 PBA Commissioner's Cup, also known as the 2024–25
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PBA Commissioner's Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the second conference of the
2024–25 PBA season of the
Philippine Basketball Association
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(PBA). The 22nd edition of the
Commissioner's Cup started on November 27, 2024, and ended on March 28, 2025. The tournament allowed teams to hire foreign players or imports with unlimited height limit.
It was initially reported that the champions of this conference would represent the Philippines at the
2025 Basketball Champions League Asia, before it was instead awarded to the
Meralco Bolts
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as champions of the
2024 PBA Philippine Cup
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. The PBA previously skipped the
2024 edition of the Asian continental club tournament.
Format
* All participating teams played in a single
round-robin elimination, with each team playing 12 games throughout the duration of the conference.
* Teams were ranked by win-loss records with the top eight teams advancing to the playoffs. Any ties were broken using tiebreaker criteria.
** If there is a tie for 8th place, a
one-game playoff
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is instead used to determine which team gets the final playoff spot.
* The playoff formats were as follows:
*Quarterfinals:
**QF1: #1 vs #8 (#1
twice-to-beat
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)
**QF2: #2 vs #7 (#2 twice-to-beat)
**QF3: #3 vs #6 (
best-of-3 series)
**QF4: #4 vs #5 (best-of-3 series)
* Semifinals (
best-of-seven series):
**SF1: QF1 winner vs. QF4 winner
**SF2: QF2 winner vs. QF3 winner
* Finals (best-of-seven series)
**F1: SF1 winner vs SF2 winner
Elimination round
Team standings
Results table
Eighth seed playoff
Bracket
Quarterfinals
(1) NorthPort vs. (8) Magnolia
NorthPort has the
twice-to-beat advantage
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; they have to be beaten twice, while their opponents just once, to advance.
(2) TNT vs. (7) Eastern
TNT has the
twice-to-beat advantage
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; they have to be beaten twice, while their opponents just once, to advance.
(3) Converge vs. (6) Rain or Shine
This is a
best-of-three playoff
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.
(4) Barangay Ginebra vs. (5) Meralco
This is a
best-of-three playoff
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.
Semifinals
The semifinals is a
best-of-seven playoff
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.
(1) NorthPort vs. (4) Barangay Ginebra
(2) TNT vs. (6) Rain or Shine
Finals
This is a
best-of-seven playoff
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.
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.
Guest team Eastern is also subjected to the same rules with the PBA making it choose between
Cameron Clark or
Chris McLaughlin as its designated import player,
although it also has other players born outside Hong Kong in its PBA roster.
Awards
Player of the Week
Rookie of the Week
Reinforcement of the Week
Statistics
Individual statistical leaders
Local players
Import players
Individual game highs
Local players
Import players
Team statistical leaders
Final rankings
References
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