PBA Commissioner's Cup

The PBA Commissioner's Cup is a tournament of a Philippine Basketball Association season. The tournament allows team to hire a single import with a height limit of 6-6. The event was usually held during the league's second conference from 1993-2002. In 2003, the tournament was scrapped, along with the PBA Governor's Cup, and was replaced by an Invitational tournament, pitting four guest teams, and a Reinforced Conference, an import-laced conference. The tournament was revived in 2011 after the league re-adopted the three conference format.

The Commissioner's Cup also refers to the trophy awarded to the champion team.

History

During the 1993 PBA season, the league moved the All-Filipino Conference as the first tournament of the season and made the Second Conference as the Commissioner's Cup, a reference to the PBA Commissioner. The conference was the second tournament held in a PBA season.

The Swift/Sunkist franchise won the tournament in 1993 and 1995. Purefoods, with Kenny Redfield as import and Chot Reyes as head coach, defeated Alaska in 1994.

During Alaska's grandslam season of 1996, they won the Commissioners Cup title over Shell in a grueling seven-game series. The Gordon's Gin Boars ended their six year drought, winning over the Milkmen in 1997, giving playing coach Robert Jaworski his last PBA title on both capacities. A year later, Alaska had Devin Davis as import to win the title over San Miguel.

From 1999-2000, San Miguel won the Commissioners Cup with Terquin Mott and Stephen Howard as imports. But in 2001, the Beermen was upset by the Red Bull Thunder, with Best Import Antonio Lang in six games.

In 2002, with most of the team's star players are with the national squad, the PBA once again allowed team's to take two imports with a 12-feet maximum height limit. Red Bull won the series over Talk N Text in seven games.

In 2003, the PBA scrapped the Commissioner and Governors Cup, replacing it with an Invitational tournament, between the national team and three foreign teams, and an import laced PBA Reinforced Conference.

A year later, the PBA reduced the number of tournaments per season to two, pitting the PBA Fiesta Conference, a conference with one import per team, and the PBA Philippine Cup, an all-local tournament.

Starting in the 2010-2011 season, as the PBA returned to its old format, The Commissioner's Cup would return and serve as the 2nd conference.

Per season results

Season	Winning Team	Losing Team	Series	Details
1993	Swift Mighty Meaties	Purefoods TJ Hotdogs	4-2	tournament details
1994	Purefoods Oodles	Alaska Milkmen	4-1	tournament details
1995	Sunkist Orange Juicers	Alaska Milkmen	4-2	tournament details
1996	Alaska Milkmen	Formula Shell Zoom Masters	4-3	tournament details
1997	Gordon's Gin Boars	Alaska Milkmen	4-2	tournament details
1998	Alaska Milkmen	San Miguel Beermen	4-2	tournament details
1999	San Miguel Beermen	Formula Shell Zoom Masters	4-2	tournament details
2000	San Miguel Beermen	Sta. Lucia Realtors	4-1	tournament details
2001	Red Bull Thunder	San Miguel Beermen	4-2	tournament details
2002	Red Bull Thunder	Talk N' Text Phone Pals	4-3	tournament details
2003-2010: no tournament held
2010-11	Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters	Barangay Ginebra Kings	4-2	tournament details

Most Championships

• San Miguel (2)
• Swift/Sunkist (2)
• Alaska (2)
• Red Bull (2)
• Purefoods (1)
• Gordon's Gin (1)
• Talk 'N Text (1)

External links

• PBA.ph