September 12, 2025 | 12:00am
LAS VEGAS – A weekend of enjoyable, fellowship and nostalgia ushers in PBA Season 50 on Oct. 4 and 5.
It’s a grand spectacle that intends to assemble the most important variety of PBA personalities as doable – previous and current – because the league celebrates an enormous milestone 5 a long time after opening store in 1975.
League pioneers and the gamers that adopted their footsteps will collect in a glitzy affair on the Meralco Theater on Oct. 4, wanting again and reliving memorable moments. A bit earlier, members of the 12 present ballclubs take their turns mingling with the followers on the Good Araneta Coliseum.
The subsequent day, the league honors the achievers of the previous season within the Leo Awards on the Novotel Lodge, instantly adopted by the Season 50 opening rites on the Large Dome.
PBA chairman Ricky Vargas, because the custom dictates, will declare the season open, then a one-game showcase will get the ball rolling for the season the place TNT is to defend its Governors’ Cup and Commissioner’s Cup crowns and San Miguel Beer its All-Filipino throne.
“It’s a yearlong celebration with a theme ‘Stable Ang Galing, Stable ang Laban.’ However the primary purpose stays to entertain the followers with thrilling video games and make them blissful. We’ll go round and produce the PBA nearer to the followers,” mentioned PBA commissioner Willie Marcial.
Video games in New York, Bahrain and Dubai are amongst matches abroad slated within the three-conference calendar. The Philippine Cup would be the opening fare adopted by the Governors’ Cup (with imports with limitless top) then the Commissioner’s Cup (that includes imports with a 6-foot-6 ceiling).
Format is single spherical robin within the elims with the highest 4 gaining twice-to-beat incentive within the quarterfinals versus the following 4. Each the semifinals and the finals will likely be best-of-seven affairs.
“There will likely be no extra playoff for No. 8 spot. Ties will likely be resolved by quotient tiebreak,” mentioned PBA chairman Ricky Vargas, presiding over the league planning session right here on the MGM Grand.
The league can be trying to organize a separate mini-invitational to presumably accommodate a visitor workforce.
“Meron kasing visitor workforce na gustong lumaro sa Philippine Cup. It was turned down by the board because it’s All-Filipino. Jap begged off whereas an Indonesian workforce eh medyo nabitin dahil sa gulo sa kanila in the meanwhile,” mentioned Marcial.
