The 2005 PBA Fiesta Conference was the 2004-05 season's

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of the

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. It was the second-staging of the Fiesta Conference. The

Shell Turbo Chargers The Shell Turbo Chargers were a Philippine Basketball Association team from 1985 to 2005. It won four PBA championships, two from 1998 to 1999. Shell sold its franchise to PBL team Welcoat Paints in February 2006. Aside from being known as the T ...

won third place over

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in a one-game playoff. It was the last appearance of the Turbo Chargers in the league as it filed a leave of absence in August 2005, eventually selling their rights to Welcoat. The league finally allowed

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to play in the finals series (who was indefinitely suspended) but still lost to the veteran-laided Beermen. Talk N' Text's

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was named the Best Player of the Conference while teammate

Jerald Honeycutt Jerald DeWayne Honeycutt (born October 20, 1974) is an American former professional basketball player. Honeycutt played high school basketball at Grambling Lab in Grambling, Louisiana. He played collegiately at Tulane University, where he finis ...

won the Best Import plum. The

San Miguel Beermen The San Miguel Beermen are a professional basketball team in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). It is one of three PBA clubs owned by the San Miguel Corporation group of companies along with the Magnolia Hotshots and Barangay Ginebra ...

won its 17th PBA title with a 4-1 series victory over

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in the finals.

List of imports

Jerald Honeycutt played for TNT in their first game and was replaced by Earl Ike (two games). He returned on April 15 vs. Purefoods, replacing Noel Felix (three games) and played for the rest of the conference. Chris Burgess played 17 games in the Classification round and was replaced by Tommy Smith in the Beermen's last game. Burgess returned in the first two games of the semifinal series vs Red Bull before being replaced by Ace Custis.

Classification round

Team standings

Second-seed playoff

Bracket

Wildcard playoffs

The #3 vs. #10 and the #4 vs. #9 matchups are in the "twice-to-beat" format; the team with the higher seed only needs to win once to advance, but needs to be beaten twice in order to be eliminated. The other two matchups are a best-of-three series.

(3) Alaska vs. (10) Coca-Cola

(4) Sta. Lucia vs. (9) Shell

(5) FedEx vs. (8) Purefoods

(6) Red Bull vs. (7) Barangay Ginebra

Quarterfinals

(3) Alaska vs. (6) Red Bull

(8) Shell vs. (9) Purefoods

Semifinals

(1) Talk 'N Text vs. (9) Shell

(2) San Miguel vs. (6) Red Bull

Third place playoff

Finals

References

External links

PBA.ph
{{PBA Fiesta Conference Fiesta Conference

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