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Grand Slam (PBA)
In Philippine sports leagues, a Grand Slam is the achievement of a team winning all three conferences (or tournaments) in a single season. The term originated in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA), as a traditional season is composed of three separate conferences rather than a single regular season and postseason. The term has since expanded into other leagues such as the Premier Volleyball League (PVL) and the now-defunct Philippine Basketball League (PBL). Philippine Basketball Association From 1975 to 2003, and again from 2010 onwards, a traditional Philippine Basketball Association season is composed of three conferences. Currently, these three are the Philippine Cup, Commissioner's Cup, and Governors' Cup. In certain circumstances, the PBA may hold less than three conferences in a season. To pave the way for the Philippines' hosting of the 1981 SEA Games and 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup, two conferences were held in the 1981 and 2023–24 seasons. Due to r ...
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Philippine Basketball Association
The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) is a men's professional basketball league in the Philippines, composed of twelve company-branded Franchising, franchise teams. Founded in 1975, it is the first professional basketball league in Asia and the second-oldest in the world after the National Basketball Association (NBA).Bartholomew, Rafe. ''Pacific Rims''. New American Library, 2010, p. 13. The league played its first game at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City on April 9, 1975, and its regulations are a hybrid of rules from the NBA and FIBA. As of the 2022–23 PBA season, 2022–23 season, the PBA season consists of three tournaments known as "List of Philippine Basketball Association conferences, conferences": the PBA Philippine Cup, Philippine Cup, the PBA Commissioner's Cup, Commissioner's Cup, and the PBA Governors' Cup, Governors' Cup. The Commissioner's and Governors' Cups allow each team to sign a single foreign player known as an "Lists of Philippine Basketball As ...
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Alaska Milkmen
The Alaska Aces were a professional basketball team in the Philippine Basketball Association since 1986 under the ownership of Alaska Milk Corporation (AMC) and the owner of 14 PBA championships, tied with the Magnolia Hotshots for the third-most titles overall. They were one of the most popular teams in the league and the Philippines. The Aces won nine PBA championships in the 1990s, including a rare grand slam (winning three championships in one season) during the 1996 season, joining the Crispa Redmanizers (1976, 1983), San Miguel Beermen (1989), and the San Mig Super Coffee Mixers ( 2013–14) as one of only four franchises to achieve the feat. The Aces last tournament was the 2021 PBA Governors' Cup where they were eliminated by the NLEX Road Warriors in the quarterfinal round in March 2022. The franchise was bought by Converge ICT on March 23, 2022, to become the Converge FiberXers. History 1986: First season After the temporary departure of the Magnolia franchi ...
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1984 Great Taste Coffee Makers Season
The 1984 Great Taste Coffee Makers season was the 10th season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). Transactions Awards *Ricardo Brown and Manny Victorino were named in the Mythical Five selection. * Manny Victorino was the season's Most Improved Player *Jeff Collins won the best import award in the Invitational Conference Championships The Great Taste Coffee Makers finally join the elite club of champion teams as they won their first-ever title in the 2nd All-Filipino Conference by scoring a 3-0 sweep over newcomer Beer Hausen. The Gokongwei ballclub captured their second straight PBA championship by winning the Invitational Third Conference in a battle of champions as they defeated Crispa Redmanizers in the best-of-five title series, three games to two. Win–loss records vs opponents Roster References {{Philippine Basketball Association navbox Great Taste Coffee Makers seasons Great Great may refer to: Descriptions ...
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1983 Gilbey's Gin Tonics Season
The 1983 Gilbey's Gin Tonics season was the 5th season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). Known as Gilbey's Gin in the All-Filipino Conference and Gilbey's Gin Gimlets in the Reinforced Filipino Conference. Transactions Summary Gilbey's Gin landed in the finals of the revived All-Filipino Conference, after a two-year absence of the league's most prestigious tournament, the Gins lost to powerhouse Crispa Redmanizers The Crispa Redmanizers were a multi-titled Filipino basketball team that played in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) from 1975 to 1984. It was one of the nine founding teams of the PBA, winning a total of thirteen PBA championships, ... via three-game sweep in the best-of-five title series. The high-scoring Lew Massey return as their import with Gilbey's now sported a new monicker "Gimlets" in the Reinforced Filipino Conference. Gilbey's split their 14 games in the eliminations with seven wins and seven loss each and won a ...
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Tommy Manotoc
Tomás "Tommy" La'O Manotoc Sr. (born August 9, 1949), is a Filipino golfer and former basketball coach. As a basketball coach of several Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) teams, Manotoc won six PBA titles, including a grand slam with the fabled Crispa Redmanizers. Manotoc is the chairman emeritus of the Junior Golf Foundation of the Philippines (JGFP). He also served as president of the National Golf Association of the Philippines (NGAP) from 2012 to 2014. He occasionally writes as a sports columnist for the ''Philippine Daily Inquirer'' and was a TV panelist for the PBA coverage from 2000 to 2002. Early life and family Manotoc is the son of Ricardo Manotoc and the former Nena Arguelles La'O. Henares, Hilarion Jr. (March 28, 2018) Salvation and Damnation: Make My Day 24. His father was a realtor, while his mother belonged to the prominent La'O family. Two of his uncles - Raúl Manglapus (who had married Pacita La'O, a sister of Manotoc's mother) and Eugenio ...
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1983 Crispa Redmanizers Season
The 1983 Crispa Redmanizers season was the 9th season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). Colors Crispa Redmanizers (dark) (light) Notable achievement The Crispa Redmanizers won their second PBA Grand Slam by winning all three conferences of the season, duplicating their first three-conference sweep back in 1976. Summary Three-time winning coach and former U/tex and San Miguel mentor Tommy Manotoc will call the shots for the Crispa Redmanizers beginning the league's 9th season. Crispa lost to Toyota, 84–86 on opening night on March 6. Following the defeat, the defending All-Filipino champions went on to sweep all their remaining games in the eliminations, the one-round semifinals and the best-of-five finals series against Gilbey's Gin to win the All-Filipino crown and finish the conference with a 12-game winning streak. On May 15 at the start of the Reinforced Filipino Conference. Crispa paraded an import named Billy Ray Bates Billy ...
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1983 PBA Season
The 1983 PBA season was the 9th season of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). Board of governors Executive committee * Mariano A. Yenko, Jr. (Commissioner) * Carlos Palanca III (President, representing Gilbey's Gin) * Jose Ibazeta, Jr. (Vice-President, representing San Miguel Beermen) * Anna Dominique Coseteng (Treasurer, representing Galerie Dominique) Teams Season highlights *The Crispa Redmanizers completed a three-conference sweep and won their second Grandslam after first doing the trick back in 1976, this time under new coach Tommy Manotoc. *On May 15, the PBA fans witnessed the "Black Superman" Billy Ray Bates played his first game for Crispa Redmanizers. Bates won the best import award in both Reinforced and Open Conferences, leading the Redmanizers to two championships and a grandslam. *A rising powerhouse Great Taste Coffee with the entry of Fil-Am rookie Ricardo Brown, three-time MVP Bogs Adornado and import Norman Black in their lineup, led the Cof ...
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1976 Toyota Tamaraws Season
The 1976 Toyota Tamaraws season was the 2nd season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). Names and colors Toyota Comets (First and Second conferences) (dark) (light) Toyota Silver Tamaraws (All-Philippine Championship) (dark) (light) NOTE: Toyota changed their monicker from the Comets to the Silver Tamaraws during the 1976 PBA Second Conference finals, but would still wear the Comets uniform used during the first and second conferences of the 1976 season. Off-season transactions Finals stint Toyota placed runner-up to Crispa in all three contested championships for the season. In the first conference finals, the Comets won the series opener but were beaten three straight by the Redmanizers. In the second conference, Crispa and Toyota meet again in the final series. The Redmanizers took the first two games but the Silver Tamaraws avoided a sweep by taking the third game. Two nights later on November 18, Crispa clinch its third straig ...
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Baby Dalupan
Virgilio "Baby" Adam Dalupan (October 19, 1923 – August 17, 2016) was a Filipino basketball coach and player. Dubbed "The Maestro", Dalupan was best known for his lengthy coaching tenure with the Crispa Redmanizers and garnered a career total of 52 basketball championships. During his 16-year Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) career (1975–1991), Dalupan won 15 PBA championships, the most by any PBA coach until February 26, 2014, when Tim Cone won his 16th PBA championship during the 2013–14 PBA Philippine Cup. Dalupan's record of 15 PBA titles went unmatched for 23 years (1990–2013) until Cone tied Dalupan's record on October 26, 2013, during the 2013 PBA Governors' Cup. Both were coaching the same PBA franchise when they won their respective 15th championship. Coincidentally, Dalupan's fifteenth PBA championship was against Cone, then coaching Alaska. Dalupan held the record for winning the most UAAP men's basketball championship titles - 12 - as coach of ...
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1976 Crispa Redmanizers Season
The 1976 Crispa Redmanizers season was the 2nd season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). Also known as Crispa Denims. Colors Crispa-Floro Redmanizers (First and Second Conferences) (dark) (light)Crispa-Floro Denims (All-Philippine Conference) (dark) (light) Notable achievements *The Crispa Redmanizers became the league's first-ever Grandslam champion by winning all three conferences. * William "Bogs" Adornado won his second Most Valuable Player (MVP) award. Summary 1st Conference: Crispa finished the eliminations with a near-perfect record of 15-1 won-loss slate, losing only to the U/Tex Wranglers in the first round. The Toyota Comets were at second with 14-2, with two losses coming from the Redmanizers. In the four-team semifinal round, along with Noritake Festivals and Quasar TV Makers, the Comets (5-1) and the Redmanizers (4-2) made it to the championship as expected. In the finals series, Toyota took Game one, 119-115, but Crispa bounc ...
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1976 PBA Season
The 1976 PBA season was the second season of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). Season highlights *The Crispa Redmanizers won all three conferences in the year to cap the first Grand Slam in the PBA. *On December 21, Crispa achieved the first PBA Grandslam by winning the All-Philippine championship with a 110–92 win over Toyota Tamaraws in the deciding Game five of the finals. The Redmanizers, reinforced by Cyrus Mann and Bill Bunton, were down 0–2 in the series but won the last three games against their arch rivals, which had Byron "Snake" Jones and Howard Smith as their imports. *William "Bogs" Adornado wins his second Most Valuable Player Award. He also became the first player to reach the 2,000 point plateau when he scored 24 points in Crispa's title-clinching 101–100 win over Toyota in Game four of the First Conference finals on July 11. *The first-ever triple-overtime game took place on August 17, Noritake outlasts Tanduay, 153–151, on a jumper by Hube ...
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2025 PBA Philippine Cup
The 2025 PBA Philippine Cup, also known as the 2025 Honda PBA Philippine Cup for sponsorship reasons, is the third and final conference of the 2024–25 PBA season of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). The 49th PBA Philippine Cup started on April 4. The tournament does not allow teams to hire foreign players or imports. The Meralco Bolts enter this conference as the defending Philippine Cup champions while the TNT Tropang 5G (formerly known as the TNT Tropang Giga) will attempt to accomplish a Grand Slam by winning the conference championship. Format * All participating teams play in a single round-robin elimination, with each team playing 11 games throughout the duration of the conference. * Teams are ranked by win-loss records with the top eight teams advancing to the playoffs. Any ties are broken using tiebreaker criteria. ** If there is a tie for 8th place, a one-game playoff is instead used to determine which team gets the final playoff spot. * The playoff forma ...
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