2009–10 PBA season

2009-10 PBA season
Duration October 11, 2009 - August 18, 2010
Number of teams 10
TV partner/s Solar TV
Basketball TV
DZRJ 810 (Local)
TFC(International)
Annual Draft
Top draft pick Japeth Aguilar
Picked by Burger King Whoppers
Conferences
Philippine Cup champions Purefoods TJ Giants
  runners-up Alaska Aces
Fiesta Conference champions Alaska Aces
  runners-up San Miguel Beermen
Awards
Season MVP James Yap (Derby Ace)
Top Scorer Gary David (Coca-Cola)
Seasons
← 2008-09

2010-11 →

The 2009–10 PBA Season was the 35th season of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). The season formally opened on October 11, 2009 and ended on August 18, 2010. The league started the season with the Philippine Cup, or the traditional All-Filipino Conference, while finishing the season with the import-laiden Fiesta Conference.

The 2009 PBA Draft was held on August 2, 2009 at the Market! Market!, and Japeth Aguilar was selected first overall by the Air21 Express. The Puerto Princesa City Government hosted the 2010 PBA All-Star Weekend at the Puerto Princesa Coliseum in Palawan on April 25, 2010.

Contents

Pre-season events

For trades done on draft day, see 2009 PBA Draft.

Player movement

Key transactions:
Trades:

Signing:

Resigning:

Rule changes

The PBA board approved the rule changes for implementation starting in the pre-season games:[7][8]

Notable occurrences

2009-10 Philippine Cup

The season began on October 11 with the Purefoods TJ Giants defeating the Burger King Whoppers, 90-83.

Notable events

Elimination round

Team standings

Qualified for semifinals
Qualified for quarterfinals
Qualified for wildcards
Eliminated
# Team W L PCT GB PD
1 Alaska Aces 13 5 .722 -- +17
2 San Miguel Beermen 13 5 .722 -- −17
3 Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants 12 6 .647 1 0; +85
4 Barangay Ginebra Kings 12 6 .667 1 0; +75
5 Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters 11 7 .611 2
6 Sta. Lucia Realtors 10 8 .556 3
7 Coca-Cola Tigers 6 12 .333 7 +10
8 Burger King Whoppers 6 12 .333 7 −10
9 Rain or Shine Elasto Painters 4 14 .222 9
10 Barako Bull Energy Boosters 3 15 .167 10
Smart Gilas 3 6 .333 5.5

†Games involving Smart Gilas are not included in the team standings.

Tiebreakers:

Playoffs

Wildcard phase
Knockout games
Quarterfinals
Best of 5 series
Semifinals
Best of 7 series
Philippine Cup Finals
Best of 7 series
                                             
    3  Purefoods 3  
    9  Rain or Shine 2  
6  Sta. Lucia 86       3  Purefoods 4  
9  Rain or Shine 90       2  San Miguel 2  
  9  Rain or Shine 99       3  Purefoods 4
  7  Coca-Cola 84       1  Alaska 0
7  Coca-Cola 118     1  Alaska 4
8  Burger King 112       4  Brgy. Ginebra 0      Third-place playoff
  4  Brgy. Ginebra 3     2  San Miguel 95
  5  Talk 'N Text 2     4  Brgy. Ginebra 88

Finals results

Mid-season break events

Player movement

Key transactions:
Trades:

Team re-brandings

Notable occurrences

2010 Fiesta Conference

Notable events

Elimination round

  y  – clinched outright semifinals,   x  – clinched outright quarterfinals,   w  – clinched wild card,   e  – eliminated

2010 PBA Fiesta Conference
# Team W L PCT GB PD
1 y-Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters 15 3 .833 --
2 y-San Miguel Beermen 13 5 .722 2
3 x-Derby Ace Llamados 13 5 .722 2
4 x-Alaska Aces 11 7 .611 4
5 x-Barangay Ginebra Kings 9 9 .500 6
6 w-Rain or Shine Elasto Painters 9 9 .500 6
7 w-Coca-Cola Tigers 8 10 .444 7
8 w-Sta. Lucia Realtors 5 13 .278 10
9 w-Air21 Express 4 14 .222 11
10 Barako Energy Coffee Masters 3 15 .167 10

NA* = teams tied for 2nd and 3rd, 5th and 6th, and 8th and 9th would have to play an extra game regardless of the results of their classification round games. For all other ties, they are broken via point differential from the games among the tied teams. If they are still tied, point differential from all games will be considered.

Playoffs

Wildcard phase
Knockout games
Quarterfinals
Best of 5 series
Semifinals
Best of 7 series
Fiesta Cup Finals
Best of 7 series
                                             
    3  Derby Ace 3  
    6  Rain or Shine 2  
6  Rain or Shine 92       3  Derby Ace 2  
9  Air21 89       2  San Miguel 4  
  6  Rain or Shine 98       2  San Miguel 2
  7  Coca-Cola 93       4  Alaska 4
7  Coca-Cola 100     1  Talk 'N Text 3
8  Sta. Lucia 84       4  Alaska 4      Third-place playoff
  4  Alaska 3     3  Derby Ace 95
  5  Brgy. Ginebra 2     1  Talk 'N Text 113

Finals results

2010 PBA All-Star Weekend

The 2010 PBA All-Star Weekend was held from April 22 to 25 at the Puerto Princesa Coliseum, Puerto Princesa, Palawan.[20] The winners were:

Rookie-Sophomore Blitz Game

April 23 Rookies 86, Sophomores 106    Puerto Princesa Coliseum, Puerto Princesa, Palawan Solar TV / Basketball TV
Scoring by quarter: 17-20, 31-20, 10-30, 29-36
Pts: Buenafe 25, Lanete 17, Cruz 14, Devance 14, Bono 10, Aljamal 8, Kramer 7, Eman 6. Pts: Menor 19, Cruz 18, Urbiztondo 17, Ross 11, Marias 9, Timberlake 7, Arellano 6, Burtscher 0.
Jared Dillinger named the game's most valuable player.

All-Star Game

April 27
6:30 p.m.
North All-Stars 133, South All-Stars 130    Puerto Princesa Coliseum, Puerto Princesa, Palawan Solar TV / Basketball TV
Scoring by quarter: 38-39, 38-30, 28-32, 29-29
Pts: Mark Cardona 20 Pts: Kelly Williams 17
Gabe Norwood named the All-Star Game MVP.

Individual awards

Awards given by the PBA Press Corps

Cumulative standings

Champion
Second place
Third place
Semifinalist
Quarterfinalist
Wildcard qualifier
Elimination round
Team GP W L PCT Best finish
Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters 49 32 17 .653 Third place
San Miguel Beermen 56 36 20 .643 Runners-up
Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants/Derby Ace Llamados 64 41 23 .641 Champions
Alaska Aces 62 39 23 .629 Champions
Barangay Ginebra Kings 52 27 25 .519 Semifinalist
Rain or Shine Elasto Painters 51 21 30 .412 Quarterfinalist
Coca-Cola Tigers 40 16 24 .400 2nd wildcard round
Sta. Lucia Realtors 38 15 23 .395 1st wildcard round
Air21 Express/Burger King Whoppers 38 10 28 .263 1st wildcard round
Barako Energy Coffee Masters/Barako Bull Energy Boosters 36 7 29 .194 Elimination round

Elimination/classification rounds

Team W L PCT
San Miguel Beermen 26 10 .722
Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters 26 10 .722
Derby Ace Llamados/Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants 25 11 .694
Alaska Aces 24 12 .667
Barangay Ginebra Kings 21 15 .583
Sta. Lucia Realtors 15 21 .417
Coca-Cola Tigers 14 22 .389
Rain or Shine Elasto Painters 13 23 .361
Air21 Express/Burger King Whoppers 10 26 .278
Barako Energy Coffee Masters/Barako Bull Energy Boosters 7 29 .194

Playoffs

Team W L PCT
Alaska Aces (PBA) 15 11 .577
Derby Ace Llamados/Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants 16 12 .571
Rain or Shine Elasto Painters 8 7 .533
San Miguel Beermen 10 10 .500
Coca-Cola Tigers 2 2 .500
Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters 6 7 .462
Barangay Ginebra Kings 6 10 .375
Sta. Lucia Realtors 0 2 .000
Air21 Express/Burger King Whoppers 0 2 .000
Barako Energy Coffee Masters/Barako Bull Energy Boosters 0 0 NA

References

  1. ^ Arwind to SMB!, Zean Macamay and Gerry Ramos, Journal Online
  2. ^ Pingris back to Giants as PBA teams continue off-season buildup, GMANews.tv
  3. ^ Trades continue: Villanueva, Alvarez to Kings; Artadi, Reavis to Giants, GMANews.tv
  4. ^ Realtors part ways with 'Denok', Noli Cortez, Malaya Online Edition
  5. ^ Realtors remain competitive, Rey Joble, Manila Standard Today
  6. ^ Fil-Am Hrabak offered frontline job by Painters, Manila Bulletin
  7. ^ "Exec: New rules to make PBA games more exciting". GMANEWS.TV. http://www.gmanews.tv/story/172618/exec-new-rules-to-make-pba-games-more-exciting. Retrieved September 20, 2009. 
  8. ^ PBA modifies some rules for Season 35, Malaya Online Edition.
  9. ^ 4 PBA greats, Jun B head Hall of Fame honorees, The Philippine Star.
  10. ^ Aguilar back with RP Gilas, to play against Whopper Friday, GMANews.tv
  11. ^ PBA suspends Arboleda for rest of the season, GMANews.tv
  12. ^ PBA renders Smart Gilas games no bearing, GMANews.tv
  13. ^ "Talk ‘N Text walks out of q’final game vs Ginebra". 2010-02-05. http://www.gmanews.tv/story/183245/talk-n-text-walks-out-of-qfinal-game-vs-ginebra. Retrieved 2010-02-05. 
  14. ^ Talk ‘N Text fined over P1M for walkout vs Ginebra, GMANews.tv
  15. ^ Air21 gets De Ocampo, Ritualo in 5-player deal, GMANews.tv
  16. ^ a b Air21 ships Yancy to Ginebra for Alvarez, Kramer, GMANews.tv
  17. ^ Name dropping: Burger King is Air21 again, GMANews.tv
  18. ^ PBA sets hefty P10M fine for future walkouts, GMANews.tv
  19. ^ Arboleda returns, Guiao takes a leave for slumping Express, GMANews.tv
  20. ^ ALL-STAR POLL AT VENUES, ONLINE, PBA.ph

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