The 2014 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Governors' Cup, also known as the 2014 PLDT Home TelPad-PBA Governors' Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the third and last conference of the 2013–14 PBA season. The conference began on May 18 and ended on July 9, 2014.
The tournament is an import-laden format, which requires an import or a pure-foreign player for each team, The recruited imports must be not taller than 6 feet and 5 inches for every team.
Games in the tournament are televised by TV5 and AksyonTV; games are also being simulcast in high definition through a special channel exclusive to Cignal Digital TV subscribers.
Format The tournament format for this conference is as follows:SPRINT GOVERNORS’ CUP OPENS SUNDAY , Snow Badua, PBA.ph, May 16, 2014 Single-round robin eliminations; 9 games per team; Teams are then seeded by basis on win–loss records. Top eight teams will advance to the quarterfinals. Ties are broken among head-to-head records of the tied teams. 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-5 series) Winners of the semifinals
Due to the need to finish the season and the tournament by June in order for the Gilas Pilipinas team to train for the upcoming FIBA Asia Cup in July, the FIBA World Cup in August and the Asian Games in September, the league had six playing dates per week and the quotient system was implemented for tiebreakers, instead of playoff games for the #4 and #8 seeds.
Elimination round Team standings
Schedule
Results
Bracket
Quarterfinals (1) Talk 'N Text vs. (8) Barako Bull
(2) Rain or Shine vs. (7) Air21
(3) Alaska vs. (6) Barangay Ginebra
(4) San Mig Super Coffee vs. (5) San Miguel
Semifinals (1) Talk 'N Text vs. (4) San Mig Super Coffee
(2) Rain or Shine vs. (3) Alaska
Finals
Awards
Conference Best Player of the Conference: Ranidel de Ocampo (Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters) Best Import of the Conference: Arizona Reid (Rain or Shine Elasto Painters) Finals MVP: James Yap (San Mig Super Coffee Mixers)
Players of the Week WeekPlayerRef. May 19–25Asi Taulava IMMOVABLE ROCK , PBA.inquirer.net, May 26, 2014 May 26–June 1Peter June Simon WIPING OUT FATIGUE , PBA.inquirer.net, June 2, 2014. June 2–8Jeffrei Chan ON FIRE , PBA.inquirer.net, June 10, 2014. June 16–22Joe Devance JUST DOING HIS PART , PBA.inquirer.net, June 23, 2014. June 23–29Paul Lee TIME TO SHINE , PBA.inquirer.net, July 1, 2014.
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 are the imports who stayed with their respective teams for the whole conference. Team Name Debuted Last game Record Air21 Express Dominique Sutton May 20 (vs. Rain or Shine) June 18 (vs. Rain or Shine) 5–5 Alaska Aces Henry Walker May 18 (vs. San Miguel) June 28 (vs. Rain or Shine) 8–7 Barako Bull Energy Eric Wise May 18 (vs. Meralco) June 3 (vs. Barangay Ginebra) 1–5 Allen Durham June 8 (vs. GlobalPort) June 17 (vs. Talk 'N Text) 2–2 Barangay Ginebra San Miguel Zaccheus Mason May 20 (vs. GlobalPort) June 18 (vs. Alaska) 5–5 GlobalPort Batang Pier LeRoy Hickerson May 20 (vs. Barangay Ginebra) May 25 (vs. Rain or Shine) 1–2 Dior Lowhorn May 30 (vs. San Mig Super Coffee) June 14 (vs. Meralco) 0–6 Meralco Bolts Terrence Williams May 18 (vs. Barako Bull) May 24 (vs. Barangay Ginebra) 0–3 Mario West May 27 (vs. San Mig Super Coffee) June 14 (vs. GlobalPort) 3–3 Rain or Shine Elasto Painters Arizona Reid May 20 (vs. Air21) July 9 (vs. San Mig Super Coffee) 12–8 San Mig Super Coffee Mixers Marqus Blakely May 21 (vs. Barako Bull) July 9 (vs. Rain or Shine) 12–8 San Miguel Beermen Reggie Williams May 18 (vs. Alaska) June 17 (vs. San Mig Super Coffee) 5–5 Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters Othyus Jeffers May 21 (vs. Meralco) 1–0 No Import May 26 (vs. Alaska) 0–1 Rodney Carney May 28 (vs. Rain or Shine) June 2 (vs. Air21) 3–0 Paul Harris June 6 (vs. GlobalPort) June 27 (vs. San Mig Super Coffee) 6–4
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