The 2015 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Governors' Cup, also known as the 2015 PLDT Home TVolution-PBA Governors' Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the third and last conference of the 2014–15 PBA season. The tournament began on May 5, 2015 and ended on July 17, 2015. The tournament allows teams to hire foreign players or imports with a height limit of 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) for the top eight teams of combined results of the Philippine Cup and Commissioner's Cup, while the bottom four teams will be allowed to hire imports with no height limit.[1] The teams were allowed to hire an additional Asian import with a height limit of 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m).[2]
Format
The tournament format for this conference is as follows:[3]
- 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. Ties are broken among head-to-head records of the tied teams.
- 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
Source: PBA.ph
Notes:
- ^ a b Head-to-head record: Alaska 1–0 San Miguel
- ^ a b Head-to-head record: Rain or Shine 1–0 GlobalPort
- ^ a b Head-to-head record: Barako Bull 1–0 Star
- ^ a b c d Head-to-head quotient: Meralco 1.13, Barangay Ginebra 1.00, Kia 0.95, Talk 'N Text 0.93
Schedule
Results
Source:
[citation needed]Legend: Blue = left column team win; Red = top row team win.
Matches with lighter background shading were decided after overtime.
Bracket
*Game went into overtime[a]
a The number of asterisks denotes the number of overtime(s) occurred.
Quarterfinals
(1) Alaska vs. (8) Barangay Ginebra
(2) San Miguel vs. (7) Meralco
(3) Rain or Shine vs. (6) Barako Bull
(4) GlobalPort vs. (5) Star
Semifinals
(1) Alaska vs. (5) Star
(2) San Miguel vs. (3) Rain or Shine
Finals
Awards
Conference
Players of the Week
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.
References
- ^ PBA SEASON 40 CALENDAR BARED, PBA.ph, September 30, 2014
- ^ PBA to feature Asian imports for Governors' Cup conference, Rappler, October 1, 2014
- ^ STRONG ACTION-PACKED SEASON FORMAT GETS GREEN LIGHT, Snow Badua, PBA.ph, October 2, 2014
- ^ A DIFFERENT, MORE COMMITTED JC, PBA.inquirer.net, May 11, 2015
- ^ STARTING TO SHOW TRUE WORTH, PBA.inquirer.net, May 20, 2015
- ^ THE NINJA MAKES IT 3 STRAIGHT FOR BARAKO BULL COGS, PBA.inquirer.net, May 25, 2015
- ^ GARCIA WEEK’S BEST, 4 IN A ROW FOR ENERGY, PBA.inquirer.net, June 1, 2015
- ^ BACK TO RIPPING THE CORDS, PBA.inquirer.net, June 8, 2015
- ^ BATANG PIER GUNNER ON FIRE, PBA.inquirer.net, June 15, 2015
- ^ NO BACKING DOWN, PBA.inquirer.net, June 22, 2015
- ^ STILL OUR TIME – PJ SIMON, PBA.inquirer.net, June 29, 2015
- ^ SHOW THE STRENGTH FOR MUSCLE MAN, PBA.inquirer.net, July 6, 2015
