The 2015 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Governors' Cup, also known as the 2015 PLDT Home TVolution-PBA Governors' Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the third and last conference of the 2014–15 PBA season. The tournament began on May 5, 2015 and ended on July 17, 2015. The tournament allows teams to hire foreign players or imports with a height limit of for the top eight teams of combined results of the Philippine Cup and Commissioner's Cup, while the bottom four teams will be allowed to hire imports with no height limit.PBA SEASON 40 CALENDAR BARED, PBA.ph, September 30, 2014 The teams were allowed to hire an additional Asian import with a height limit of .PBA to feature Asian imports for Governors' Cup conference, Rappler, October 1, 2014
Format The tournament format for this conference is as follows:STRONG ACTION-PACKED SEASON FORMAT GETS GREEN LIGHT, Snow Badua, PBA.ph, October 2, 2014 Single-round robin eliminations; 11 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-7 series) Winners of the semifinals
Elimination round
Team standings
Schedule
Results
Bracket
Quarterfinals
(1) Alaska vs. (8) Barangay Ginebra
(2) San Miguel vs. (7) Meralco
(3) Rain or Shine vs. (6) Barako Bull
(4) GlobalPort vs. (5) Star
Semifinals
(1) Alaska vs. (5) Star
(2) San Miguel vs. (3) Rain or Shine
Finals
Awards
Conference Best Player of the Conference: June Mar Fajardo (San Miguel Beermen) Best Import of the Conference: Romeo Travis (Alaska Aces) Finals MVP: June Mar Fajardo (San Miguel Beermen)
Players of the Week WeekPlayerRef. May 5–10 JC Intal A DIFFERENT, MORE COMMITTED JC, PBA.inquirer.net, May 11, 2015 May 11–17 Dylan Ababou STARTING TO SHOW TRUE WORTH, PBA.inquirer.net, May 20, 2015 May 18–24 Joseph Yeo THE NINJA MAKES IT 3 STRAIGHT FOR BARAKO BULL COGS, PBA.inquirer.net, May 25, 2015 May 25–31 RR Garcia GARCIA WEEK’S BEST, 4 IN A ROW FOR ENERGY, PBA.inquirer.net, June 1, 2015 June 1–7 Jeffrei Chan BACK TO RIPPING THE CORDS, PBA.inquirer.net, June 8, 2015 June 8–14 Terrence Romeo BATANG PIER GUNNER ON FIRE, PBA.inquirer.net, June 15, 2015 June 15–21 Paul Lee NO BACKING DOWN, PBA.inquirer.net, June 22, 2015 June 22–28 Peter June Simon STILL OUR TIME – PJ SIMON, PBA.inquirer.net, June 29, 2015 June 29 – July 5 Vic Manuel SHOW THE STRENGTH FOR MUSCLE MAN, PBA.inquirer.net, July 6, 2015
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 in gold are the imports who stayed with their respective teams for the whole conference. Players with an asterisk indicates the Asian imports. Team Name Debuted Last game Record Alaska Aces Romeo Travis May 5 July 17 12–7 Barako Bull Energy Liam McMorrow May 6 June 27 6–6 Barangay Ginebra San Miguel Orlando Johnson May 8 June 26 5–7 Sanchir Tungalag* May 8 May 31 2–4 Kim Jiwan* June 3 June 26 3–3 Blackwater Elite Marcus Douthit May 5 June 3 1–6 Marcus Cousin June 12 June 23 0–4 GlobalPort Batang Pier Patrick O'Bryant May 5 May 8 2–0 Steven Thomas May 12 May 17 1–1 Jarrid Famous May 22 June 28 4–5 Omar Krayem* May 5 June 28 7–6 Kia Carnival Hamady N'Diaye May 6 June 24 5–6 Chang Tsung-hsien* May 6 June 24 5–6 Meralco Bolts Andre Emmett May 5 June 29 6–7 Seiya Ando* May 13 June 29 5–6 NLEX Road Warriors Kwame Alexander May 6 June 24 3–8 Michael Madanly* May 6 June 24 3–8 Rain or Shine Elasto Painters Wendell McKines May 12 July 8 9–7 San Miguel Beermen Arizona Reid May 6 July 17 16–5 Star Hotshots Marqus Blakely May 9 July 5 9–8 Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters Steffphon Pettigrew May 10 June 19 5–6 Sam Daghles* May 10 June 19 5–6
Import handicapping # Team Philippine Cup Commissioner's Cup Total Import height limit1 Rain or Shine Elasto Painters 1.8 0.4 2.2 6'5"2 Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters 2.4 0.8 3.23 Alaska Aces 1.2 2.4 3.64 San Miguel Beermen 0.6 3.6 4.25 Purefoods Star Hotshots 4.2 1.2 5.46 Meralco Bolts 3.6 2.0 5.67 Barangay Ginebra San Miguel 3.0 3.2 6.28 NLEX Road Warriors 6.0 1.6 7.69 Barako Bull Energy 5.4 2.8 8.2 Unlimited height10 GlobalPort Batang Pier 4.8 4.0 8.811 Kia Sorento/Carnival 6.6 4.4 11.012 Blackwater Elite 7.2 4.8 12.0 Philippine Cup final ranking comprises 60% of the points, while the elimination round ranking in the Commissioner's Cup is 40%. The four teams with most points gets to have an import of unlimited height.
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