The 2017 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Governors' Cup, also known as the 2017 Oppo-PBA Governors' Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the third and last conference of the 2016–17 PBA season. The tournament started on July 19 and ended on October 27, 2017. The tournament allowed teams to hire foreign players or imports with a height limit of .
Due to the FIBA Asia Cup, the league decided to temporarily shelve signing up Asian imports.PBA schedule conflict with Fiba Asia Cup prompts league to shelve hiring of Asian imports, Gerry Ramos, spin.ph, July 7, 2017
Format The tournament format for this conference is as follows: 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. In case of tie, a playoff game will be held only for the #8 seed. 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
Schedule
Results
Bracket
Quarterfinals (1) Meralco vs. (8) Blackwater
(2) TNT vs. (7) Rain or Shine
(3) Barangay Ginebra vs. (6) San Miguel
(4) Star vs. (5) NLEX
Semifinals (1) Meralco vs. (4) Star
(2) TNT 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 in gold are the imports who stayed with their respective teams for the whole conference. Team Name Debuted Last game Record Alaska Aces LaDontae Henton July 19 (vs. NLEX) September 20 (vs. Rain or Shine) 3–8 Barangay Ginebra San Miguel Justin Brownlee July 23 (vs. Meralco) October 27 (vs. Meralco) 16–7Blackwater Elite Trevis Simpson July 21 (vs. Meralco) July 29 (vs. San Miguel) 0–3 Henry Walker August 6 (vs. Phoenix) September 28 (vs. Meralco) 6–4GlobalPort Batang Pier Jabril Trawick July 21 (vs. Rain or Shine) July 21 (vs. Rain or Shine) 0–1 Murphy Holloway July 26 (vs. Phoenix) September 17 (vs. Blackwater) 3–6 No Import September 22 (vs. Meralco) 0–1Kia Picanto Markeith Cummings July 19 (vs. Phoenix) August 20 (vs. GlobalPort) 0–7 Geron Johnson September 1 (vs. Blackwater) September 22 (vs. Star) 0–4 Meralco Bolts Allen Durham July 21 (vs. Blackwater) October 27 (vs. Baarangay Ginebra) 16–7 NLEX Road Warriors Aaron Fuller July 19 (vs. Alaska) September 26 (vs. Star) 7–5Phoenix Fuel Masters Eugene Phelps July 19 (vs. Kia) August 6 (vs. Blackwater) 2–3 Brandon Brown August 18 (vs. Meralco) September 20 (vs. San Miguel) 0–6Rain or Shine Elasto Painters J.D. Weatherspoon July 21 (vs. GlobalPort) July 29 (vs. Meralco) 1–2 J'Nathan Bullock August 13 (vs. Kia) September 29 (vs. TNT) 7–3San Miguel Beermen Wendell McKines July 29 (vs. Blackwater) August 27 (vs. NLEX) 3–2 Terik Bridgeman September 2 (vs. Alaska) September 6 (vs. Rain or Shine) 1–1 Terrence Watson September 10 (vs. Barangay Ginebra) September 27 (vs. Barangay Ginebra) 3–2Star Hotshots Cinmeon Bowers July 23 (vs. Blackwater) July 23 (vs. Blackwater) 1–0 Malcolm Hill July 28 (vs. Alaska) September 15 (vs. GlobalPort) 4–3 Kristófer Acox September 17 (vs. TNT) October 5 (vs. Meralco) 3–4TNT KaTropa Michael Craig July 28 (vs. Kia) August 4 (vs. Alaska) 2–1 Glen Rice Jr. August 20 (vs. Rain or Shine) October 8 (vs. Barangay Ginebra) 8–6
Awards
Conference Best Player of the Conference: Greg Slaughter Bobby Parks Best Import of the Conference: Allen Durham
Players of the Week WeekPlayerRef. July 19–23Kevin Alas July 24–30LA Tenorio July 31 – August 6Joe Devance August 13–20Chris Tiu August 21–27Larry Fonacier August 28 – September 3Juami Tiongson September 4–10Chris Ross September 18–24Chris Newsome September 25 – October 1Jared Dillinger October 2–8Jared Dillinger
References