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2022–23 PBA Commissioner's Cup

The 2022–23 PBA Commissioner's Cup, also known as the 2022–23 Honda PBA Commissioner's Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the second conference of the 2022–23 PBA season of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). The 20th edition of the Commissioner's Cup started on September 21, 2022, and ended on January 15, 2023. The tournament allowed teams to hire foreign players or imports with a height limit of 6'10" (2.08 m).

Several games were postponed due to the onslaught of two tropical cyclones Typhoon Karding (Noru) and Tropical Storm Paeng (Nalgae) that both affected the country.[1][2][3]

Format

The following format will be observed for the duration of the conference:

Elimination round

Team standings

Source: PBA.ph
Rules for classification: 1) winning percentage; 2) if two teams are tied, head-to-head record; if three or more teams are tied, head-to-head goal average (quotient); if tied for 8th, one-game playoff; 3) overall quotient; 4) coin toss[4]
(G) Guests
Notes:
  1. ^ a b Head-to-head record: Bay Area 1–0 Magnolia
  2. ^ a b Head-to-head record: NorthPort 1–0 Phoenix
  3. ^ a b Eighth seed playoff: Rain or Shine 110–100 NLEX
  4. ^ a b Head-to-head record: Meralco 1–0 TNT

Schedule

Source: PBA.ph
  = Win;   = OT win;   = Loss;   = OT loss

Results

Source: PBA.ph results, PBA.ph schedule
Legend: Blue = left column team win; Red = top row team win.
Matches with lighter background shading were decided after overtime.

Eighth seed playoff

Bracket

This box:

Quarterfinals

(1) Bay Area vs. (8) Rain or Shine

Bay Area has the twice-to-beat advantage; they have to be beaten twice, while their opponents just once, to advance.

(2) Magnolia vs. (7) Phoenix Super LPG

Magnolia has the twice-to-beat advantage; they have to be beaten twice, while their opponents just once, to advance.

(3) Barangay Ginebra vs. (6) NorthPort

This is a best-of-three playoff.

(4) Converge vs. (5) San Miguel

This is a best-of-three playoff.

Semifinals

All match-ups are best-of-five playoffs.

(1) Bay Area vs. (5) San Miguel

(2) Magnolia 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 are the imports who stayed with their respective teams for the whole conference.

Awards

Players of the Week

Statistics

Individual statistical leaders

Local players

Import players

Individual game highs

Local players

Import players

Team statistical leaders

Notes

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  2. ^ a b For the Bay Area Dragons guest team, its entire roster is composed of non-Filipinos. For purposes of the import and the height-limit, all Chinese citizens (including Hong Kong nationals) are considered "locals", while non-Chinese are imports, and only one non-Chinese can play at a game. Aside from being guest in the PBA, they are a franchise team of the East Asia Super League (EASL). In the 2022–23 East Asia Super League, a team is allowed to have two non-Asian imports. The Dragons have two non-Asians on their roster, Canadian Andrew Nicholson and the American Myles Powell. The Dragons played each player for four consecutive games each, but chose which one of them to play with on their ninth games onwards.[5] The team chose Powell as the team's final import starting their ninth game,[6] but the team activated Nicholson during the start of the quarterfinals due to Powell's injury.[7] Eventually they chose Nicholson to be their import for the rest of the conference.[8] However, Nicholson sustained an injury during game 3 of the Finals which forced him to miss both games 4 and 5.[9] He was replaced by Powell for the final time during games 6 and 7.[10]

References

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