1987 PBA season

The 1987 PBA season was the 13th season of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).

1987 PBA season
Duration	March 22 – December 13, 1987
Number of teams	6
TV partner(s)	Vintage Sports (PTV)
1987 PBA Draft
Top draft pick	Allan Caidic
Picked by	Great Taste Coffee Makers
Season MVP	Abet Guidaben (San Miguel Beermen)
Open Conference champions	Tanduay Rhum Makers
Open Conference runners-up	Great Taste Coffee Makers
All-Filipino Conference champions	Great Taste Coffee Makers
All-Filipino Conference runners-up	Hills Bros. Coffee Kings
Reinforced Conference champions	San Miguel Beermen
Reinforced Conference runners-up	Hills Bros. Coffee Kings

Board of governors

Executive committee

• Mariano A. Yenko, Jr. (Commissioner)
• Rodriguo Salud (Deputy Commissioner)
• Reynaldo Marquez (Chairman, representing Formula Shell)
• Jose Ibazeta (Vice Chairman, representing Magnolia Ice Cream)
• Wilfred Steven Uytengsu (Treasurer, representing Hills Bros. Coffee Kings)

Teams

Team	Company	Governor
Forumula Shell	Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporation	Reynaldo Marquez
Ginebra San Miguel	La Tondeña Incorporada	Carlos Palanca III
Great Taste Coffee Makers	Consolidated Foods Corporation	James Go
Hills Bros. Coffee Kings	G.F. Equity Inc.	Wilfred Steven Uytengsu
Magnolia Ice Cream Makers	San Miguel Corporation	Jose C. Ibazeta
Tanduay Rhum Makers	Elizalde & Company Tanduay Distillers, Inc.	Renato Reyes

Season highlights

• Manila Beer disbanded its franchise at the start of the season, reducing the league's membership to only 6 teams, their players were absorbed by the rest of the PBA ballclubs. ^[1]
• The PBA, in partnership with a newly formed league called International Basketball Association (IBA) of the United States for players 6–4 and below, staged a successful mini-tournament for one week, featuring the top PBA All-Filipino teams and the US (IBA) Selection.
• Tanduay Rhum Makers, which won the Open Conference crown, were eliminated and finish last in the succeeding two conferences, announces that the team is headed for disbandment the following year, leaving only two founding members of the PBA (San Miguel and Great Taste).
• The San Miguel Beermen, behind best import Bobby Parks, won the Reinforced Conference crown and their third PBA title since returning in the third conference of last year. SMB coach Norman Black won his first championship as a mentor and he became the third American to steer his team to a PBA title after Jerry Webber and Ron Jacobs.

Opening ceremonies

The muses for the participating teams are as follows:

Team	Muse
Formula Shell	Pinky Amador
Ginebra San Miguel	Bing Loyzaga
Great Taste Coffee Makers	Tina Abad
Hills Bros. Coffee Kings	Joey Albert
Magnolia Ice Cream	Rachel Ann Wolfe
Philippine Team	Marichit Vergara
Tanduay Rhum Makers	Cassandra Romero

Champions

• Open Conference: Tanduay Rhum Makers
• All-Filipino Conference: Great Taste Coffee Makers
• Reinforced Conference: San Miguel Beermen
• Team with best win–loss percentage: Magnolia/San Miguel Beermen (43–23, .652)
• Best Team of the Year: Great Taste Coffee Makers (3rd & Final)

Open Conference

Main article: 1987 PBA Open Conference

Elimination round

Pos	Team v t e	W	L	PCT	GB	Qualification
1	Great Taste Coffee Makers	10	2	.833	—	Advance to semifinal round
2	Magnolia Ice Cream Makers	9	3	.750[a]	1
3	Tanduay Rhum Makers	9	3	.750[a]	1	Proceed to quarterfinal round
4	Ginebra San Miguel	6	6	.500	4
5	Hills Bros. Coffee Kings	4	8	.333	6
6	Formula Shell Spark Aiders	2	10	.167[b]	8
7	Philippine national team (G)	2	10	.167[b]	8

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
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Notes:

1. Semifinal berth playoff: Magnolia 108–98 Tanduay
2. Quarterfinal berth playoff: Shell 120–111 Philippine team

Quarterfinal round

Pos	Team v t e	W	L	PCT	GB	Qualification
3	Tanduay Rhum Makers	10	5	.667	—	Semifinal round
4	Ginebra San Miguel	9	6	.600	1
5	Hills Bros. Coffee Kings	5	10	.333	5
6	Formula Shell Spark Aiders	3	12	.200	7

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Semifinal round

Pos	Team v t e	W	L	PCT	GB	Qualification
1	Great Taste Coffee Makers	4	2	.667[a]	—	Advance to the Finals
2	Tanduay Rhum Makers	4	2	.667[a]	—
3	Magnolia Ice Cream Makers	2	4	.333[b]	2	Proceed to third place playoffs
4	Ginebra San Miguel	2	4	.333[b]	2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Notes:

1. Head-to-head record: Great Taste 1–1 Tanduay, Great Taste +2
2. Head-to-head record: Magnolia 2–0 Ginebra

Third place playoffs

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5	Game 6	Game 7
(3) Magnolia Ice Cream Makers	4–1	(4) Ginebra San Miguel	103–96	91–97	105–76	98–91	106–101	—	—

Finals

Main article: 1987 PBA Open Conference finals

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5	Game 6	Game 7
(1) Great Taste Coffee Makers	1–4	(2) Tanduay Rhum Makers	114–118	134–135 (OT)	120–114	112–113	120–134	—	—

• Best Import of the Conference: David Thirdkill (Tanduay)

All-Filipino Conference

Main article: 1987 PBA All-Filipino Conference

Elimination round

Pos	Team v t e	W	L	PCT	GB	Qualification
1	Hills Bros. Coffee Kings	5	3	.625	—	Semifinal round
2	Great Taste Coffee Makers	5	3	.625	—
3	Magnolia Ice Cream Makers	4	4	.500	1
4	Formula Shell Spark Aiders	4	4	.500	1
5	Ginebra San Miguel	4	4	.500	1
6	Tanduay Rhum Makers	2	6	.250	3

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Semifinal round

Pos	Team v t e	W	L	PCT	GB	Qualification
1	Hills Bros. Coffee Kings	7	1	.875	—	Advance to the Finals
2	Great Taste Coffee Makers	6	2	.750	1
3	Magnolia Ice Cream Makers	3	5	.375	4	Proceed to third place playoffs
4	Ginebra San Miguel	3	5	.375	4
5	Formula Shell Spark Aiders	1	7	.125	6

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Third place playoffs

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5
(3) Magnolia Ice Cream Makers	3–0	(4) Ginebra San Miguel	102–98 (OT)	101–98 (OT)	106–105	—	—

Finals

Main article: 1987 PBA All-Filipino Conference finals

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5
(1) Hills Bros. Coffee Kings	0–3	(2) Great Taste Coffee Makers	94–124	110–114	108–109	—	—

Reinforced Conference

Main article: 1987 PBA Reinforced Conference

Elimination round

Pos	Team v t e	W	L	PCT	GB	Qualification
1	Shell Azocord Super Bugbusters	7	3	.700	—	Semifinal round
2	San Miguel Beermen	6	4	.600	1
3	Hills Bros. Coffee Kings	6	4	.600	1
4	Ginebra San Miguel	5	5	.500	2
5	Great Taste Instant Milk	4	6	.400	3
6	Tanduay Rhum Makers	2	8	.200	5

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Semifinal round

Overall record Pos Team v t e W L PCT GB Qualification 1 San Miguel Beermen 13 5 .722 — Advance to the Finals[a] 2 Hills Bros. Coffee Kings 10 8 .556[b] 3 Guaranteed Finals berth playoff 3 Ginebra San Miguel 10 8 .556[b] 3 Qualify to Finals berth playoff 4 Shell Azocord Super Bugbusters 9 9 .500 4 Proceed to third place playoffs 5 Great Taste Instant Milk 6 12 .333 7 Source: [citation needed] Notes: If a team outside the top two teams wins at least five semifinal round games, then it and the second-placed team will playoff for the last Finals berth; otherwise, the top 2 teams qualify outright. Second seed playoff: Hills Bros. 89–87 Ginebra

Semifinal round record Pos Team v t e W L Qualification 1 San Miguel Beermen 7 1 2 Ginebra San Miguel 5 3 Qualify to Finals berth playoff[a] 3 Hills Bros. Coffee Kings 4 4 4 Shell Azocord Super Bugbusters 2 6 5 Great Taste Instant Milk 2 6 Source: [citation needed] Notes: San Miguel advanced to the Finals outright as #1 seeded team; Finals berth playoff: Hills Bros. 89–87 Ginebra

Third place playoffs

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5	Game 6	Game 7
(3) Ginebra San Miguel	4–0	(4) Shell Azocord Super Bugbusters	134–127	127–123	166–132	153–109	—	—	—

Finals

Main article: 1987 PBA Reinforced Conference finals

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5	Game 6	Game 7
(1) San Miguel Beermen	4–1	(2) Hills Bros. Coffee Kings	97–110	123–100	114–92	113–105	96–86	—	—

• Best Import of the Conference: Bobby Parks (San Miguel)

Awards

• Most Valuable Player: Abet Guidaben (San Miguel)
• Rookie of the Year: Allan Caidic (Great Taste)
• Most Improved Player: Elpidio Villamin (Hills Bros.)
• Best Import-Open Conference: David Thirdkill (Tanduay)
• Best Import-Reinforced Conference: Bobby Parks (San Miguel)
• Mythical Five:
  • Philip Cezar (Great Taste)
  • Hector Calma (San Miguel)
  • Abet Guidaben (San Miguel)
  • Elpidio Villamin (Hills Bros.)
  • Allan Caidic (Great Taste)
• Mythical Second Team:
  • Ricardo Brown (Great Taste)
  • Arnie Tuadles (Great Taste)
  • Ramon Fernandez (Tanduay)
  • Bernardo Carpio (Great Taste)
  • Ricky Relosa (Hills Bros.)
• All-Defensive Team:
  • Chito Loyzaga (Ginebra)
  • Philip Cezar (Great Taste)
  • Elpidio Villamin (Hills Bros.)
  • Ricky Relosa (Hills Bros.)
  • Biboy Ravanes (Shell)

Cumulative standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PCT	Best finish
1	Magnplia Ice Cream Makers/San Miguel Beermen	66	43	23	.652	Champions
2	Great Taste Coffee Makers/Instant Milk	60	35	25	.583
3	Ginebra San Miguel	68	33	35	.485	Third place
4	Tanduay Rhum Makers	45	22	23	.489	Champions
5	Hills Bros. Coffee Kings	58	29	29	.500	Finalist
6	Formula Shell Spark Aiders/Shell Azocord Super Bugbusters	54	18	36	.333	Semifinalist
7	Philippine national team (G)	13	2	11	.154	Elimination round

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
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Elimination round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PCT
1	Great Taste Coffee Makers/Instant Milk	30	19	11	.633
2	Magnplia Ice Cream Makers/San Miguel Beermen	30	19	11	.633
3	Ginebra San Miguel	30	15	15	.500
4	Hills Bros. Coffee Kings	30	15	15	.500
5	Formula Shell Spark Aiders/Shell Azocord Super Bugbusters	30	13	17	.433
6	Tanduay Rhum Makers	30	13	17	.433
7	Philippine national team (G)	12	2	10	.167

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(G) Guests

Playoffs

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L
1	Magnplia Ice Cream Makers/San Miguel Beermen	36	24	12
2	Ginebra San Miguel	38	18	20
3	Great Taste Coffee Makers/Instant Milk	30	16	14
4	Hills Bros. Coffee Kings	28	14	14
5	Tanduay Rhum Makers	15	9	6
6	Formula Shell Spark Aiders/Shell Azocord Super Bugbusters	24	5	19
7	Philippine national team (G)	1	0	1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(G) Guests