The 2013 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Governors' Cup was the third and last conference of the 2012–13 PBA season. Due to the preparations for the 2013 FIBA Asia Championship, the conference started on August 14, 2013, and finished on October 25, 2013.
The tournament is an import-laden format, which allows an import or a pure-foreign player for each team and with a height limit of 6-foot-5.
The finals is sponsored by PLDT Telpad.
Format The tournament format for this conference is as follows:League tweaks Governors' Cup format, eliminates semifinal round robin, GMA News Online, August 13, 2012 Single-round robin eliminations; 9 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, playoffs will be held only for the #4 and #8 seeds. Quarterfinals: QF1: #1 seed vs #8 seed (#1 seed twice-to-beat) QF2: #2 seed vs #7 seed (#2 seed twice-to-beat) QF3: #3 seed vs #6 seed (#3 seed twice-to-beat) QF4: #4 seed vs #5 seed (#4 seed twice-to-beat) 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
Eighth seed playoff
Bracket
Quarterfinals
(1) Petron Blaze vs. (8) Barangay Ginebra
(2) San Mig Coffee vs. (7) Alaska
(3) Meralco vs. (6) Barako Bull
(4) Rain or Shine vs. (5) GlobalPort
Semifinals (1) Petron Blaze vs. (4) Rain or Shine
(2) San Mig Coffee vs. (3) Meralco
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. Team Name Debuted Last game Record Air21 Express Zach Graham August 14 (vs. GlobalPort) September 22 (vs. Alaska Aces) 3–6 Alaska Aces Wendell McKines August 23 (vs. GlobalPort) September 27 (vs. San Mig Coffee) 5–6 Barako Bull Energy Cola Mike Singletary August 15 (vs. Talk 'N Text) September 25 (vs. Meralco) 4–6 Barangay Ginebra San Miguel Dior Lowhorn August 18 (vs. Petron) September 26 (vs. Petron) 4–7 GlobalPort Batang Pier Markeith Cummings August 14 (vs. Air21) September 26 (vs. Rain or Shine) 4–6 Meralco Bolts Mario West August 16 (vs. Petron) October 6 (vs. San Mig Coffee) 7–7 Petron Blaze Boosters Elijah Millsap August 16 (vs. Meralco) October 25 (vs. San Mig Coffee) 15–7 Rain or Shine Elasto Painters Arizona Reid August 14 (vs. San Mig Coffee) October 7 (vs. Petron) 7–7 San Mig Coffee Mixers Marqus Blakely August 14 (vs. Rain or Shine) October 25 (vs. Petron) 15–8 Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters Tony Mitchell August 15 (vs. Barako Bull) September 13 (vs. Air21) 2–5 Courtney Fells September 18 (vs. Rain or Shine) September 24 (vs. Barangay Ginebra) 1–2
Awards
Conference Best Player of the Conference: Arwind Santos (Petron Blaze Boosters) Bobby Parks Best Import of the Conference: Marqus Blakely (San Mig Coffee Mixers) Finals MVP: Marc Pingris (San Mig Coffee Mixers)
Players of the Week WeekPlayerRef. August 14–18Paul Lee LEE PACES RAIN OR SHINE’S LETHAL START, PBA.inquirer.net, August 20, 2013 August 19–25LA Tenorio TENORIO UNLEASHED, PBA.inquirer.net, August 26, 2013 August 26 – September 1Emman Monfort POCKET ROCKET IN FULL BLAST-OFF, PBA.inquirer.net, September 2, 2013 September 2–8James Yap YAP CRANKS UP GAME, PBA.inquirer.net, September 9, 2013 September 9–15Marcio Lassiter MAJOR PROBLEM, PBA.inquirer.net, September 16, 2013 September 16–22Jay Washington PICKING UP THE CUDGELS, PBA.inquirer.net, September 16, 2013 September 23–29Joe Devance RISING UP, PBA.inquirer.net, September 30, 2013 September 30 – October 7James Yap Alex Cabagnot GO-TO GUYS, PBA.inquirer.net, October 8, 2013
References
External links PBA.ph