1999 PBA All-Filipino Cup

The 1999 PBA All-Filipino Cup or known as the 1999 McDonalds-PBA All-Filipino Cup for sponsorship reasons, is the Philippine Basketball Association All-Filipino Conference of the 1999 PBA season. The Formula Shell Zoom Masters defeated the Tanduay Rhum Masters 4–2 in the finals series to win their first PBA All-Filipino Crown and repeated as back-to-back champions. The Barangay Ginebra Kings made an improbable run up to third place with a huge upset against the #1 seed Mobiline Phone Pals in the quarterfinals.

Elimination round

Playoff berth

Bracket

Quarterfinals

With a 7–0 start, Mobiline had a losing run to finish the elimination round to put them out of contention from an outright semifinals berth. Being the #1 seed, they faced the ragtag Barangay Ginebra Kings.

The Kings managed to keep in step with the Phone Pals throughout the game; with Mobiline leading by one point in the closing seconds, Bal David converted a jump-shot as time expired that caused jubilation at the mostly pro-Ginebra crowd. Asi Taulava broke down and slumped to the bench right after David's game-clinching jumper and booked a flight to the United States the day after the game.^[1]

Semifinals

Tanduay–Alaska series

Shell–Barangay Ginebra series

Barangay Ginebra would come up short in their playoffs run as the Zoom Masters swept them in their semifinals series, 3–0. Game 2 had a free-for all bench-clearing brawl that saw punches being thrown; Shell player Jay Mendoza instigated the fight when he elbowed Ginebra's Wilmer Ong. A total of P235,000 worth of fines were issued by PBA commissioner Jun Bernardino, the second-greatest amount since the 1991 Finals played ironically, by Shell and Ginebra where Ginebra walked out to hand Shell the championship trophy.^[2]

Third-place playoff

Finals

References