The 2011–12 PBA season was the 37th season of the

Philippine Basketball Association The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) is a men's professional basketball league in the Philippines composed of twelve company-branded franchised teams. Founded in 1975, it is the first professional basketball league in Asia and is the se ...

. The season was formally opened on October 2, 2011 at the

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, and finished on August 5, 2012. The season used three-conference format, starting with the Philippine Cup, or the traditional All-Filipino Conference. The mid season Commissioner's Cup featured unlimited height limit for imports. The Governors' Cup became the third and final conference for this season. The first activity of the season was the 2011 PBA Draft held on August 28, 2011 at the

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Board of governors

Executive committee

Chito Salud Angelico Tiu Salud (born June 17, 1962), better known as Chito Salud, is a Filipino lawyer and sports executive who currently serves as team governor of the Converge Fiber Xers in PBA. He was the first president and CEO of the Philippine Basketba ...

(Commissioner) * Mamerto Mondragon (Chairman, representing Rain or Shine Elasto Painters) * Jose Bayani Baylon (Vice-Chairman, representing Powerade Tigers) * Robert Non (Treasurer, representing Barangay Ginebra Kings)

Teams

Pre-season events

Player movement

Key transactions:
Trades: * Rain or Shine traded

Doug Kramer Douglas Rimorin Kramer (born July 10, 1983) is a Filipino former basketball player. He played for eight teams in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). College career Kramer set a career-high 19 rebounds along with 3 blocks and 16 point ...

and Josh Vanlandingham to

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for

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, Norman Gonzales and Powerade's 2013 and 2014 second round picks. *

Barako Bull Energy The Barako Bull Energy were a Philippine Basketball Association team that began in 2002 as the FedEx Express. From its first season until 2005, the team was dubbed as the FedEx Express before changing to Air21 Express. From the 2009 PBA Fiest ...

B-Meg Llamados The Magnolia Chicken Timplados Hotshots, or simply known as the Magnolia Hotshots, are a professional basketball team in the Philippine Basketball Association. The team is owned by San Miguel Food and Beverage, Inc., a subsidiary of San Mig ...

, and Shopinas.com Clickers involved a three-way deal. Shopinas.com acquired

Elmer Espiritu Elmer Torres Espiritu (born November 23, 1985) is a Filipino former professional basketball player who last played for Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). He played five seasons for the University of the ...

from Barako Bull and Brian Ilad from B-Meg, B-Meg received 5th pick overall

Mark Barroca Andy Mark C. Barroca (born April 25, 1986) is a Filipino professional basketball player for the Magnolia Hotshots of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). He currently wears the number 14 to imply the birthdate of his wife. Professional ...

from Shopinas.com, and Barako Bull acquired Don Allado and future second round picks from B-Meg.

Notable occurrences

* The PBA board approved the sale of the Barako Bull Energy Boosters team franchise from Photokina Marketing to the Linaheim Corporate Services, owners of the

Air21 Express The Air21 Express were a professional basketball team in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) that debuted in the 2011–12 season. The team debuted as the Shopinas.com Clickers during the 2011–12 PBA Philippine Cup. In 2014, the fran ...

. The team will now be known as the Shopinas.com Clickers. * The

will be renamed as Barako Bull Energy starting this season. The name change occurred after the Lina Group bought 49 percent stake of Energy Food and Drinks Inc., a subsidiary of Photokina Marketing and the exclusive distributor of Red Bull Energy Drink products in the Philippines. The "Energy Boosters" moniker will be dropped and instead the team will be known as "Energy", since there will be a conflict in using the "Boosters" moniker with the Petron Blaze Boosters. * The PBA board approved the 20% salary cap increase and the standardization of game bonuses on September 8. The player salary cap was increased from P350,000 to P420,000. The proposals were approved at the heels of an outburst by Alaska Aces owner Fred Uytengsu during the press conference announcing Tim Cone's resignation as head coach of Alaska. Uytengsu commented that the league is not a level playing field, with some teams paying their players more than the monthly amount set by the PBA.

Coaching changes

(formerly Air21 Express) hired Junel Baculi as head coach, who also was the head coach of the Barako Bull franchise that disbanded in 2010. Baculi will be replacing Bong Ramos, who will slide down as assistant coach. *On August 26, the

Barangay Ginebra Kings A barangay (; abbreviated as Brgy. or Bgy.), historically referred to as barrio (abbreviated as Bo.), is the smallest administrative division in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village, district, or ward. In metropolitan ...

appointed assistant coach

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as co-head coach of the team, together with

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. *On September 1, Alaska Aces coach

Tim Cone Earl Timothy Cone (born December 14, 1957) is an American professional basketball coach who is the head coach of Barangay Ginebra San Miguel in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). He is the most accomplished coach in PBA history with ...

requested to be released from his contract, which is set to expire in 2013. Assistant Joel Banal will take over as head coach. * Two weeks after resigning as head coach of the Alaska Aces, Tim Cone was appointed as the new head coach of the

. Richard del Rosario, who was appointed as acting head coach in August was demoted to assistant coach along with former B-meg head coach Jorge Gallent. Gallent later was reassigned as assistant coach of Petron Blaze.

Opening ceremonies

The season began on October 2 with the

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defeating the

, 94-93. The muses for the participating teams are as follows:

2011–12 Philippine Cup

Notable events

Elimination round

Playoffs

Quarterfinals

*Team has twice-to-beat advantage. Team #1 only has to win once, while Team #2 has to win twice.

Semifinals

Finals

*Finals MVP: Larry Fonacier ( Talk 'N Text) *Best Player of the Conference: Gary David (

)

2012 Blue vs. Green Dream Game

Rosters

Blue

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Nonoy Baclao Siverino A. "Nonoy" Baclao Jr. (born June 15, 1987) is a Filipino professional basketball player for the Meralco Bolts of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). A forward, he played three seasons for the Ateneo de Manila Blue Eagles in ...

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* LA Tenorio *

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* Paolo Bugia * Wesley Gonzales * Larry Fonacier * Rich Alvarez * Magnum Membrere *

Japeth Aguilar Japeth Paul Cabrera Aguilar (born January 25, 1987) is a Filipino professional basketball player for the Barangay Ginebra San Miguel of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). He first played college basketball for the Ateneo Blue Eagl ...

Coach:

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Green

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* Willy Wilson * Ren-Ren Ritualo * Joseph Yeo * Tyrone Tang * Jerwin Gaco *

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* Carlo Sharma * JVee Casio * Ryan Araña * Don Allado *

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* Brian Ilad Coach:

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2012 Commissioner's Cup

After the PBA Philippine Cup Finals, the PBA is slated to return in the PBA Commissioner's Cup. This conference features imports for each team, with an unlimited height ceiling.

Notable events

* After a dismal finish in the Philippine Cup, the Lina Group of Companies announced that the Shopinas.com Clickers will be renamed as the

starting in the Commissioner's Cup. * On February 2, Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines was rumored to sell its PBA team, the Powerade Tigers, to San Miguel Corporation, therefore allowing SMC to own and unprecedented 4 teams in the league. The rumors arose when it was revealed that certain factions in the Coca-Cola management have decided to sell the team. The next day, however, the trade rumors were debunked by Powerade manager JB Baylon. * Due to being the Philippine national basketball team's naturalized player, Marcus Douthit's rights to be signed as an import (despite having naturalized Filipino status) were bidded on by the different PBA teams. The

won the rights to sign Douthit after all the other teams passed. Douthit then agreed to play for Air21, with the rule that if he leaves Air21, he cannot play for any other team.

Player movement

Key transactions:
Trades: * On January 27, 2012, sister teams Barangay Ginebra Gin Kings,

and third team

completed a five - player blockbuster deal. In the deal, B-MEG received Gin Kings forward

and a 2012 2nd round pick from Barako Bull that originally belonged to Air 21, formerly Shopinas.com. Ginebra got Llamados forward

Kerby Raymundo Kerby Mariano Raymundo (born January 19, 1981) is a Filipino former professional basketball player. He last played for the Barangay Ginebra San Miguel of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). Known as The Kid, he was a former star player ...

and Energy rookie Dylan Ababou. Barako Bull ended up with Gin Kings veteran swingman Ronald Tubid and rookie Reil Cervantes, as well as a second round draft pick in 2014 from Ginebra. This marks the second time that Barako Bull has traded its top draft picks. * On the same day, Air21 completed a four-man trade with the

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. Air21 acquired Nelbert Omolon and Mark Isip from Meralco in exchange for Mark Canlas, Dennis Daa, and a 2012 first-round draft pick that belonged to Meralco originally.

Coaching changes

* On January 11, after the

lost their quarterfinal series against

, coach

was revealed to have left Ginebra to join the Smart Gilas national basketball team coaches pool. Co-head coach

has become the sole head coach. On January 17, Uichico joined the

as a team consultant.

Elimination round

Playoffs

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

*Finals MVP: James Yap ( B-Meg) *Best Player of the Conference:

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( Barangay Ginebra) *Best Import of the Conference: Denzel Bowles ( B-Meg)

2012 Governors' Cup

Notable events

* The

announced the

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's #7 jersey. The ceremony was held on July 8 before the start of the semifinals game between Barangay Ginebra and

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. * In commemoration of the jersey retirement of Robert Jaworski, the Barangay Ginebra Kings wore their

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1985 Ginebra San Miguel white jerseys (with slight modifications, specifically the replacement of the La Tondeña "G" logo with the current GSM yellow logo), on their semifinal game against Petron Blaze. * PBA referee Peter Balao was suspended until the end of the season after a miss call of a three-second violation during the knockout game between the

and the Powerade Tigers.PBA suspends referee, as Allado rips league after Barako's exit
GMA News Online, July 4, 2012 * Following the loss of Barako Bull Energy against the Powerade Tigers in their knockout game, Don Allado of Barako Bull posted on his Twitter account his frustrations and mentioned that the PBA games are fixed. The Twitter posts were later deleted by Allado within a day and issued an apology to the league and the PBA officials. PBA Commissioner

called Allado to his office to explain his accusations. Allado was later fined Php 500,000; Php 300,000 will go the PBA players educational trust fund and Php 200,000 to a charitable institution of his choice. Allado is also banned for one conference from all PBA related activities. The fine became the largest penalty for a player since

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's fine after a violent altercation with a fan during their game against

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in 2009.PBA: How does Allado's P500k fine stack up against the biggest PBA penalties?
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Player movement

Key transactions:
Trades: * On April 20, 2012 Powerade Tigers and Petron Blaze Boosters completed a five - player deal that would send Celino Cruz and Marcio Lassiter to Petron while Powerade receiving reigning Rookie of the Year

, Rey Guevarra and Lordy Tugade. * On May 1, 2012

has agreed on a trade that would send veteran Dorian Pena to the Petron Blaze Boosters in exchange for Carlo Sharma and Celino Cruz. * On May 5, 2012 Powerade Tigers traded

to the

for backup forward

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and a first round pick in the upcoming draft. * On May 11, 2012 Alaska Aces has agreed to trade center Jay-R Reyes to the

in exchange for power forward Gabby Espinas. The transaction also gave the Aces the right to switch draft picks with Bolts in the upcoming draft. * On May 29, 2012, Air 21 Express traded starting point guard RJ Jazul to the Alaska Aces in exchange for backup guard

and a 2012 second - round pick.

Coaching changes

* On April 16, 2012 coach Joel Banal of the Alaska Aces who was signed to a three-year deal, resigned from the team after losing the quarterfinal series against the

. Luigi Trillo, the son of Alaska team manager

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, assistant coach of Alaska and former head coach of the

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Cebuana Lhuillier Gems, was appointed to replace Banal. Trillo also stated that he will reinstate the triangle offense in Alaska.

Elimination round

Semifinal round

Finals

*Finals MVP: Jeffrei Chan ( Rain or Shine) *Best Player of the Conference:

( Barangay Ginebra) *Best Import of the Conference: Jamelle Cornley ( Rain or Shine)

Individual awards

Leo Awards

*Most Valuable Player:

( Barangay Ginebra) *Rookie of the Year: Paul Lee (Rain or Shine) *First Mythical Team: **

(Barangay Ginebra) ** Gary David (Powerade) **

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(Talk 'N Text) ** Arwind Santos (Petron Blaze) ** James Yap (B-Meg) *Second Mythical Team: ** Jayson Castro (Talk 'N Text) ** Paul Lee (Rain or Shine) ** Sonny Thoss (Alaska) ** Jeffrei Chan (Rain or Shine) **

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(Talk 'N Text) *All-Defensive Team: ** Marc Pingris (B-Meg) **

(Barako Bull) ** Arwind Santos (Petron Blaze) ** Jireh Ibañes (Rain or Shine) ** Ryan Reyes (Talk 'N Text) *Most Improved Player: Jeffrei Chan (Rain or Shine) *Sportsmanship Award: JV Casio (Powerade)

Awards given by the PBA Press Corps

* Scoring Champion: Gary David (

) * Coach of the Year:

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(Rain or Shine) * Mr. Quality Minutes: Larry Fonacier (Talk 'N Text) * Comeback Player of the Year:

( Barangay Ginebra) * Executive of the Year: Raymund Yu and Terry Que (Rain or Shine) * Defensive Player of the Year: Jireh Ibañes (Rain or Shine) *All-Rookie Team ** Paul Lee (Rain or Shine) ** JVee Casio (Powerade) ** Marcio Lassiter (Petron Blaze) ** Dylan Ababou (Barangay Ginebra) ** James Sena (Air21)

Board of governors

Executive committee

Teams

Pre-season events

Player movement

Notable occurrences

Coaching changes

Opening ceremonies

2011–12 Philippine Cup

Notable events

Elimination round

Playoffs

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

2012 Blue vs. Green Dream Game

Rosters

Blue

Green

2012 Commissioner's Cup

Notable events

Player movement

Coaching changes

Elimination round

Playoffs

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

2012 Governors' Cup

Notable events

Player movement

Coaching changes

Elimination round

Semifinal round

Finals

Individual awards

Leo Awards

Awards given by the PBA Press Corps

Cumulative standings

Elimination rounds

Playoffs

References

External links