2016 PBA Governors' Cup

The 2016 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Governors' Cup, also known as the 2016 Oppo-PBA Governors' Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the third and last conference of the 2015Ã¢ÂÂ16 PBA season. Due to the preparations of the Philippines men's national basketball team for the 2016 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament, which was held in Manila, the tournament started on July 15 and ended on October 19, 2016. The tournament allowed teams to hire foreign players or imports with a height limit of for the top eight teams of combined results of the Philippine Cup and Commissioner's Cup, while the bottom four teams are allowed to hire imports with a height limit of . The teams are allowed to hire an additional Asian import with a height limit of .

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 winÃ¢ÂÂloss records.
Top eight teams will advance to the quarterfinals. In case of tie, playoff games will be held only for the #4 and #8 seeds.
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

Fourth seed playoff

Eighth seed playoff

Bracket

Quarterfinals

(1) TNT vs. (8) Phoenix

(2) San Miguel vs. (7) NLEX

(3) Barangay Ginebra vs. (6) Alaska

(4) Meralco vs. (5) Mahindra

Semifinals

(1) TNT vs. (4) Meralco

(2) San Miguel 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. 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.