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2023–24 PBA Commissioner's Cup
Duration	November 5, 2023 – February 14, 2024
TV partner(s)	Local: RPTV A2Z (until Finals Game 5) PBA Rush (HD) International: Pilipinas Live Online: Pilipinas Live
Finals
Champions	San Miguel Beermen
Runners-up	Magnolia Chicken Timplados Hotshots
Awards
Best Player	CJ Perez (San Miguel Beermen)
Best Import	Johnathan Williams (Phoenix Super LPG Fuel Masters)
Finals MVP	CJ Perez (San Miguel Beermen)
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The 2023–24 PBA Commissioner's Cup, also known as the 2023–24 Honda PBA Commissioner's Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the first conference of the 2023–24 PBA season of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). The 21st edition of the Commissioner's Cup started on November 5, 2023, and ended on February 14, 2024. The tournament allowed teams to hire foreign players or imports with a height limit of 6 feet 9 inches (2.06 m).

The opening was originally scheduled on October 15, but was moved three weeks past the original date to give players that participated in the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup and the 2022 Asian Games time to rest.

Guest team and previous Commissioner's Cup runner-up Bay Area Dragons were supposed to compete during the conference, but the team was disbanded by their owners, the East Asia Super League, prior to the start of the conference.

Format

• All participating teams played in a single round-robin elimination, with each team playing 11 games throughout the duration of the conference.
• Teams were ranked by win-loss records with the top eight teams advancing to the playoffs. Any ties were broken using tiebreaker criteria.
  • If there is a tie for 8th place, a one-game playoff is instead used to determine which team gets the final playoff spot.
• The playoff formats were as follows:
  • Quarterfinals (twice-to-beat for top four):
    • Matches: 1st vs. 8th, 2nd vs. 7th, 3rd vs. 6th, 4th vs. 5th
  • Semifinals (best-of-five series):
    • Matches: 1st/8th vs. 4th/5th; 2nd/7th vs. 3rd/6th
  • Finals (best-of-seven series)

Elimination round

Team standings

1. ^ Head-to-head quotient: San Miguel 1.17, Barangay Ginebra 0.99, Phoenix Super LPG 0.98, Meralco 0.89
2. ^ Head-to-head record: NorthPort 1–0 Rain or Shine
3. ^ Head-to-head record: Blackwater 1–0 Converge

Results table

Bracket

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Quarterfinals

All match-ups have the higher-seeded team having the twice-to-beat advantage, where they have to be beaten twice, and their opponents just once, to advance.

(1) Magnolia vs. (8) TNT

(2) San Miguel vs. (7) Rain or Shine

(3) Barangay Ginebra vs. (6) NorthPort

(4) Phoenix Super LPG vs. (5) Meralco

Semifinals

All match-ups are best-of-five playoffs.

(1) Magnolia vs. (4) Phoenix Super LPG

(2) San Miguel vs. (3) Barangay Ginebra

Finals

Imports

The following is the list of imports, which had played for their respective teams at least once, with the returning imports in italics. Highlighted are the imports who stayed with their respective teams for the whole conference.

Team	Name	Debuted	Last game	Record
Barangay Ginebra San Miguel	Tony Bishop	November 17, 2023 (vs. Converge)	January 28, 2024 (vs. San Miguel)	9–6
Blackwater Bossing	Chris Ortiz	November 8, 2023 (vs. Converge)	January 12, 2024 (vs. San Miguel)	1–10
Converge FiberXers	Tom Vodanovich	November 8, 2023 (vs. Blackwater)	December 2, 2023 (vs. Phoenix Super LPG)	0–5
	Jamil Wilson	December 6, 2023 (vs. NorthPort)	January 14, 2024 (vs. Rain or Shine)	1–5
Magnolia Chicken Timplados Hotshots	Tyler Bey	November 5, 2023 (vs. TNT)	February 14, 2024 (vs. San Miguel)	15–7
Meralco Bolts	Suleiman Braimoh	November 8, 2023 (vs. Rain or Shine)	December 3, 2023 (vs. NLEX)	4–1
	Zach Lofton	December 10, 2023 (vs. NorthPort)	December 22, 2023 (vs. Barangay Ginebra)	2–1
	Shonn Miller	January 6, 2024 (vs. Magnolia)	January 21, 2024 (vs. Phoenix Super LPG)	3–2
NLEX Road Warriors	Thomas Robinson	November 10, 2023 (vs. Phoenix Super LPG)	November 22, 2023 (vs. NorthPort)	2–2
	Stokley Chaffee Jr.	December 1, 2023 (vs. Magnolia)	December 22, 2023 (vs. Blackwater)	1–4
	DeAndre Williams-Baldwin	January 10, 2024 (vs. Converge)	January 13, 2024 (vs. Barangay Ginebra)	1–1
NorthPort Batang Pier	Venky Jois	November 10, 2023 (vs. Terrafirma)	January 19, 2024 (vs. Barangay Ginebra)	5–6
	No import	December 8, 2023 (vs. San Miguel)		1–0
Phoenix Super LPG Fuel Masters	Johnathan Williams	November 10, 2023 (vs. NLEX)	January 31, 2024 (vs. Magnolia)	10–7
Rain or Shine Elasto Painters	DaJuan Summers	November 8, 2023 (vs. Meralco)	November 24, 2023 (vs. Barangay Ginebra)	0–4
	Demetrius Treadwell	November 29, 2023 (vs. San Miguel)	January 19, 2024 (vs. San Miguel)	6–2
San Miguel Beermen	Ivan Aska	November 15, 2023 (vs. NLEX)	December 17, 2023 (vs. TNT)	5–3
	Bennie Boatwright	December 25, 2023 (vs. Phoenix Super LPG)	February 14, 2024 (vs. Magnolia)	11–2
Terrafirma Dyip	Thomas De Thaey	November 10, 2023 (vs. NorthPort)	January 12, 2024 (vs. Meralco)	2–8
	No import	November 22, 2023 (vs. TNT)		0–1
TNT Tropang Giga	Quincy Miller	November 5, 2023 (vs. Magnolia)		0–1
	Rondae Hollis-Jefferson	November 11, 2023 (vs. Converge)	December 17, 2023 (vs. San Miguel)	4–3
	No import	December 25, 2023 (vs. Barangay Ginebra)		0–1
	Rahlir Hollis-Jefferson	January 5, 2024 (vs. Rain or Shine)	January 17, 2024 (vs. Magnolia)	1–2
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Awards

Players of the Week

Statistics

Individual statistical leaders

Local players

Import players

Individual game highs

Local players

Import players

Team statistical leaders

References

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