1982 PBA season

1982 PBA season
1982 PBA season
Duration	March 7 – December 14, 1982
Number of teams	8
TV partner(s)	Vintage Sports (City2)
Conferences
Reinforced Filipino Conference champions	Toyota Super Corollas
Runners-up	San Miguel Beermen
Invitational Conference champions	San Miguel Beermen
Runners-up	Crispa Redmanizers
Open Conference champions	Toyota Super Corollas
Runners-up	Gilbey's Gin
Awards
Season MVP	Ramon Fernandez ; (Toyota Super Corollas)
Seasons
	< 1981 1983 >

Last updated December 21, 2022

The 1982 PBA season was the eighth season of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).

Board of governors

Executive committee

Leopoldo I. Prieto (Commissioner)
Domingo Y. Itchon (President, representing YCO-Tanduay)

Teams

Team	Company	Governor
Crispa Redmanizers	P. Floro and Sons	Virgilio A. Dalupan
Galerie Dominique Artists	Galerie Dominique	Anna Dominique Coseteng
Gilbey's Gin Tonics	La Tondeña Incorporada	Carlos Palanca III
Great Taste Coffee Makers	Consolidated Foods Corporation	Porfirio G. Zablan
San Miguel Beermen	San Miguel Corporation	Tomas L. Manotoc
Toyota Super Corollas	Delta Motor Corporation	Ricardo C. Silverio, Jr.
YCO-Tanduay	Elizalde & Company Tanduay Distillers, Inc.	Johnny Jose
U/Tex Wranglers	Universal Textile Mills	Walter Euyang

Season highlights

The start of the year saw the league's membership reduced from 10 teams to just 8, following the disbandment of CDCP and Tefilin franchises.
Vintage Enterprises Inc. took over the league's television coverage beginning this season.
The PBA implement for the first time a playoff post-eliminations format with a series of best-of-three quarterfinals, best-of-five semifinals and best-of-seven finals to determine the champion in the Reinforced Filipino Conference.
Toyota Super Corollas won two championships in the year, capped by center Ramon Fernandez winning his first Most Valuable Player Award.
San Miguel Beer won the Invitational championship over Crispa Redmanizers for the franchise' 2nd PBA title.
Baby Dalupan resigned as Crispa head coach after the Redmanizers got eliminated in the third conference. This season became the second time the multi-titled ballclub did not win any championship. ^[1]
Leo Prieto and Domingo Itchon stepped down as the league commissioner and board president respectively at the end of the season.

All-Star series

A PBA North vs South All-Star series were held in Cebu City and Manila. The North and South team split their two-game series. Emerging as the All-Star MVP was Toyota's Arnie Tuadles, who scored 50 points in the first match.

Opening ceremonies

The muses for the participating teams are as follows:

Team	Muse
Crispa Redmanizers	Sharon Cuneta, Jackie Lou Blanco and Joyce Ann Burton
Gilbey's Gin	Jane Destree and Beth de Mesa
Great Taste Discoverers	Sharon Eddiston
Mariwasa-Honda TMXers	Tina Maristela
San Miguel Beermen	Maya Mahtani
Toyota Super Corollas	Vivian Veloso
U/Tex Wranglers	Rio Locsin
YCO-Tanduay	Maridol Cagdac/Alta Tan/Rosanna Zamora/Nitz Bernardez

Champions

Reinforced Filipino Conference: Toyota Super Corollas
Invitational Conference: San Miguel Beermen
Open Conference: Toyota Super Corollas
Team with best win–loss percentage: San Miguel Beermen (40-26, .606)
Best Team of the Year: Toyota Super Corollas (4th & Final)

Reinforced Filipino Conference

Elimination round

Pos	Team v t e	W	L	PCT	GB	Qualification
1	San Miguel Beermen	13	5	.722	—	Advance to semifinals
2	Crispa Redmanizers	12	6	.667	1	Advance to semifinals
3	Gilbey's Gin	11	7	.611	2	Proceed to quarterfinals
4	Toyota Super Corollas	10	8	.556	3
5	YCO-Tanduay	9	9	.500	4
6	U-Tex Wranglers	8	10	.444	5
7	Mariwasa-Honda TMXers	7	11	.389	6
8	Great Taste Coffee Makers	2	16	.111	11

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Playoffs

Quarterfinals (Best-of-3)			Semifinals (Best-of-5)			Finals (Best-of-7)

			1	San Miguel	3
3	Gilbey's	0	6	U-Tex	1
6	U-Tex	2				1	San Miguel	3
						4	Toyota	4
			2	Crispa	2
4	Toyota	2	4	Toyota	3
5	YCO-Tanduay	0

Finals

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5	Game 6	Game 7
(1) San Miguel Beermen	3–4	(4) Toyota Super Corollas	120–110	119–117	87–90	96–98	96–88	99–110	95–101

Best Import of the Conference: Norman Black (Magnolia)

Invitational Championship

Elimination round

Pos	Team v t e	W	L	PCT	GB	Qualification
1	San Miguel Beermen	3	1	.750	—	Advance to the Finals
2	Crispa Redmanizers	3	1	.750	—	Advance to the Finals
3	Nicholas Stoodley (South Korea national team) (G)	2	2	.500	1	Proceed to third place playoff
4	Toyota Super Corollas	2	2	.500	1	Proceed to third place playoff
5	U-Tex Wranglers	0	4	.000	3

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(G) Guest

Third place playoffs

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
(3) South Korea	2–0	(4) Toyota Super Corollas	115–107	142–107	—

Finals

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
(1) San Miguel Beermen	2–1	(2) Crispa Redmanizers	102–96	104–110	103–102

Open Conference

Elimination round

Pos	Team v t e	W	L	PCT	GB	Qualification
1	N-Rich Coffee Creamers	13	5	.722	—	Advance to semifinals
2	Gilbey's Gin	13	5	.722	—	Advance to semifinals
3	YCO-Tanduay	11	7	.611	2	Proceed to quarterfinals
4	San Miguel Beermen	10	8	.556	3
5	Toyota Super Corollas	8	10	.444	5
6	U-Tex Wranglers	8	10	.444	5
7	Crispa Redmanizers	6	12	.333	7
8	Galerie Dominique Artists	3	15	.167	10

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Quarterfinal round

Pos	Team v t e	W	L	PCT	GB	Qualification
3	Toyota Super Corollas	2	1	.667	—	Advance to semifinals
4	San Miguel Beermen	2	1	.667	—	Advance to semifinals
5	YCO-Tanduay	1	2	.333	1
6	U-Tex Wranglers	1	2	.333	1

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

Semifinal round

Pos	Team v t e	W	L	PCT	GB	Qualification
1	Gilbey's Gin	4	2	.667	—	Advance to the Finals
2	Toyota Super Corollas	3	3	.500^{[lower-alpha 1]}	1	Advance to the Finals
3	N-Rich Coffee Creamers	3	3	.500^{[lower-alpha 1]}	1	Proceed to third place playoff
4	San Miguel Beermen	2	4	.333	2	Proceed to third place playoff

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Notes:

1 2 Second-seed playoff: Toyota 114–87 N-Rich

Finals

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
(1) Gilbey's Gin	0–3	(2) Toyota Super Corollas	100–108	107–121	109–122

Best Import of the Conference: Donnie Ray Koonce (Toyota)

Awards

Most Valuable Player: Ramon Fernandez (Toyota)
Rookie of the Year: Marte Saldaña (San Miguel)
Best Import-Reinforced Conference: Norman Black (San Miguel)
Best Import-Open Conference: Donnie Ray Koonce (Toyota)
Mythical Five:
- Francis Arnaiz (Toyota)
- Atoy Co (Crispa)
- Ramon Fernandez (Toyota)
- Bogs Adornado (U/Tex)
- Abe King (Toyota)

Cumulative standings

Team	GP	W	L	PCT
San Miguel Beermen	66	40	26	.606
Gilbey's Gin	47	28	19	.596
Toyota Super Corollas	69	38	31	.551
Crispa Redmanizers	54	28	26	.518
YCO-Tanduay	41	21	20	.512
Great Taste/N-Rich Coffee Creamers	46	19	27	.413
U/Tex Wranglers	55	22	33	.400
Mariwasa-Honda/Galerie Dominique Artists	36	10	26	.278

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[1] "Looking back: The PBA's history". Manila Standard.

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1982 PBA season

Contents

Board of governors

Executive committee

Teams

Season highlights

All-Star series

Opening ceremonies

Champions

Reinforced Filipino Conference

Elimination round

Playoffs

Finals

Invitational Championship

Elimination round

Third place playoffs

Finals

Open Conference

Elimination round

Quarterfinal round

Semifinal round

Finals

Awards

Cumulative standings

Related Research Articles

References