1976 PBA season
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The 1976 PBA Season was the second season of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).
Notable events
- The Crispa Redmanizers won all three conferences in the year to capped the very first Grand Slam in the PBA.
- On December 21, Crispa achieves the first PBA Grandslam by winning the All-Philippine championship, down 0-2 in the series, won their last three games against arch rival Toyota, the Redmanizers, reinforced by Cyrus Mann and Bill Bunton, defeats the Tamaraws which had Byron "Snake" Jones and Howard Smith as their imports, 110-92 in the deciding Game 5 of the finals.
- William "Bogs" Adornado of Crispa, wins his second Most Valuable Player Award.
- Some highlights of the year was the first-ever triple-overtime game won by Noritake, 153-151 over Tanduay on August 17 and Harry Rogers of 7-Up scoring 75 points in their 157-134 win over Fiberlite on October 26, to become the first PBA player/import to reach the 75-point output in a single game.
Champions
- Team with best win-loss percentage: Crispa (47-15, .758)
Individual awards
Cumulative standings
References
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- 1976 PBA All-Filipino Conference (Finals)
- 1976 PBA Open Conference (Finals)
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- 1976 PBA All-Philippine Championship (Finals)
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- Crispa Redmanizers
- N-Rich Coffee
- Noritake Porcelainmakers
- Quasar TV makers
- Royal Tru-Orange
- Seven-Up Uncolas
- Tanduay Distillery
- Toyota Tamaraws
- U-Tex Wranglers
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- 1975
- All-Filipino Conference
- 1977
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- 1975
- Open Conference
- 1977
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- 1977
- All-Philippine Championship
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* Transitional conference |
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