Philippine Basketball Association

Philippine Basketball Association (PBA)
	Official logo of the PBA
Sport	Basketball
Founded	1975
First season	1975
Commissioner	Willie Marcial
Motto	Angat Ang Laban
No. of teams	12
Country	Philippines
Headquarters	Eulogio Rodriguez Jr. Avenue (C-5 road), Eastwood City, Bagumbayan, Quezon City
Continent	FIBA Asia
Most recent; champion(s)	2024 Governors' – TNT Tropang Giga; 2023–24 Commissioner's – San Miguel Beermen; 2024 Philippine – Meralco Bolts
Most titles	San Miguel Beermen; (29 titles)
TV partner(s)	See below
International cup(s)	East Asia Super League
Official website	pba.ph
	2024–25 PBA Commissioner's Cup ; 2024–25 PBA season

The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) is a men's professional basketball league in the Philippines, composed of twelve company-branded franchise teams. Founded in 1975, it is the first professional basketball league in Asia and the second-oldest in the world after the NBA.^[1]^{[note 1]}

The league played its first game at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City on April 9, 1975,^[1] and its regulations are a hybrid of rules from the NBA and FIBA. As of the 2022–23 season, the PBA season consists of three tournaments known as "conferences": the Philippine Cup, the Commissioner's Cup, and the Governors' Cup. The Commissioner's and Governors' Cups allow each team to sign a single foreign player known as an "import". Meanwhile, the Philippine Cup is exclusive for Filipino players and is considered the most prestigious of the three conferences. Although the three conferences have minor variations in format and rules, each consists of a single round-robin elimination round followed by playoffs to determine the champion. The winners of the conference cups do not face each other at the end of the season to determine the season champion; instead, each conference champion team are considered PBA champions. The achievement of a team winning all three conferences in a season is called the Grand Slam.

The San Miguel Beermen are the most successful team with a total of 29 championships, including a Grand Slam in 1989. They have also won the most titles in each of the current conferences: 10 Philippine Cups, 5 Commissioner's Cups, and 5 Governors' Cups. Meanwhile, the defunct Crispa Redmanizers are the only team to have achieved two Grand Slams.

As of 2022–23, the PBA earned ₱200 million in net revenue and had an average television audience of 4 million per game.^[3] The PBA also has an official developmental league, the PBA D-League.

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^ ^a ^b Bartholomew, Rafe. Pacific Rims. New American Library, 2010, p. 13.
^ Stein, Marc (March 23, 2020). "Boris Stankovic, Who Paved Way for N.B.A.'s 'Dream Team,' Dies at 94". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 5, 2023.
^ Henson, Joaquin (May 28, 2023). "PBA sets record in revenues". The Philippine Star. Archived from the original on May 28, 2023. Retrieved May 28, 2023.

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[PacificRims-2] Bartholomew, Rafe. Pacific Rims. New American Library, 2010, p. 13.

[3] Stein, Marc (March 23, 2020). "Boris Stankovic, Who Paved Way for N.B.A.'s 'Dream Team,' Dies at 94". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 5, 2023.

[5] Henson, Joaquin (May 28, 2023). "PBA sets record in revenues". The Philippine Star. Archived from the original on May 28, 2023. Retrieved May 28, 2023.

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