The 2013 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Governors' Cup was the third and last conference of the 2012âÂÂ13 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:
- Single-round robin eliminations; 9 games per team; Teams are then seeded by basis on winâÂÂloss 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.
Awards
Conference
Players of the Week
References
External links