1989 San Miguel Beermen season

The 1989 San Miguel Beer Grandslam Season was the 15th season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).

Draft Picks

• Bobby Jose (First Round)
• Renato Agustin (Second Round)

Championships

• San Miguel Beer became the third team in PBA Annals History to win the Grandslam, duplicating the feat achieved by the famed Crispa Redmanizers, first in 1976 and in 1983.

Also see

• 1989 PBA Open Conference Finals
• 1989 PBA All Filipino Conference Finals
• 1989 PBA Reinforced Conference Finals

Awards

• Hector Calma was the finals MVP in all three Conference-sweep by the beermen.
• Ramon Fernandez lost out in the MVP honors, and settled for the Mythical Five Selection, along with Hector Calma.
• two other beermen, Elmer Reyes and Alvin Teng, made it to the Mythical Second Team.

Key Dates

• March 5: PBA Opener before a jampacked crowd at the ULTRA, San Miguel Beer opened its title-retention campaign with a thrilling 140-136 come-from-behind victory over Formula Shell, spoiled the debut of Prize catch rookie center Benjie Paras, who could only tally 8 points in his first game, the beermen also overcome Bobby Parks' 72 points.
• March 16: San Miguel Beer sweeps the first round of eliminations, defeating Presto Ice Cream, 118-107 to improved their record to 5-0.
• April 9: San Miguel Beer completed a 10-game sweep, kept their unbeaten slate intact at 10-wins, 0-loss, but not after being challenge by Purefoods Hotdogs midway in the final quarter, with the score at 105-102, back-to-back triples by Ricky Cui and Franz Pumaren, a steal and a triple by Michael Phelps capped a 9-0 run to put the game away, the beermen prevailed over the hotdogs, 122-116.
• April 27: Win number 13 against two losses for the beermen, to claim the first finals berth of the Open Conference, with a 101-99 victory over Presto Ice Cream.
• June 18: Opening of the All-Filipino Conference, San Miguel Beer defeated sister team Anejo Rum 65, 126-117.
• July 2: Franz Pumaren scored on a go-ahead layup with 3 ticks left as San Miguel nip Purefoods, 117-116 in the first meeting between two-highly rated teams in the All-Filipino, Pumaren scored the last five points for the beermen, the Hotdogs, who trailed most of the way, grabbed the upperhand twice in the final two minutes, the last at 116-115 on Nelson Asaytono's follow-up shot with 6 seconds to go.
• July 25: the beermen snapped a two-game losing streak, with a 123-115 win over eliminated-Presto Tivolis, and avenged their first round loss to this same team last June 29, San Miguel finished the eliminations at 8-3. a week before on July 18, the beermen lost Samboy Lim due to an injury, following a bad fall late in the final quarter after going up against three Hotdog defenders in a 125-115 defeat to Purefoods.
• July 27: San Miguel halted Purefoods' seven game-winning run and tied their standings at 9-3, with a 112-108 victory on the first day of the semifinals.
• August 6: The "Skywalker" returns, A last-second shot by Samboy Lim on a perfect pass by Bobby Jose gave San Miguel Beer an all-important 121-120 victory over Formula Shell.
• October 15: San Miguel notch its third win in a row after losing their first two games in the Reinforced Conference, beating Presto Tivoli, 139-136, SMB import Keith Smart completed a three-point play with five seconds to go in a bizzare ending placed under protest by the Tivolis, citing the grievous error and judgment call by referee Rudy Hines, who ruled a sideline inbound in favor of the beermen when the ball clearly bounced off the foot of Smart with six seconds remaining and the score tied at 136-all.
• November 21: San Miguel Beer secured a finals seat and a quest for a Grandslam bid alive, be beating Alaska Milk, 122-119 for its 12th win in 18 games, leaving the other seat contested by Purefoods Hotdogs and Anejo Rum 65.

Roster

_{Coach by Norman Black}

• R - Rookie
• I - Import
• * - Return in the 3rd Conference