2022–23 PBA Commissioner's Cup finals

2022–23 PBA Commissioner's Cup finals

Team Coach Wins (3) Barangay Ginebra San Miguel Tim Cone 4 (1) Bay Area Dragons Brian Goorjian 3
Dates	December 25, 2022 – January 15, 2023
MVP	Christian Standhardinger (Barangay Ginebra San Miguel)
Television	Local: One Sports TV5 PBA Rush (HD) International: AksyonTV International iWantTFC[note 1]
Announcers	see Broadcast notes
Radio network	Radyo5 (DWFM)
Announcers	see Broadcast notes
Referees
Game 1: Jimmy Mariano, Sherwin Pineda, Albert Nubla, Niño Cortez Game 2: Rommel Gruta, Bing Oliva, Jerry Narandan, Joel Baldago Game 3: Nol Quilinguen, Sherwin Pineda, Mike Flordeliza, Niño Barcenas Game 4: Rommel Gruta, Bing Oliva, Janine Nicandro, Niño Cortez Game 5: Jimmy Mariano, Rommel Gruta, Albert Nubla, Jeff Tantay Game 6: Nol Quilinguen, Mike Flordeliza, Jerry Narandan, Joel Baldago Game 7: Nol Quilinguen, Rommel Gruta, Mike Flordeliza, Jerry Narandan
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The 2022–23 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Commissioner's Cup finals was the best-of-7 championship series of the 2022–23 PBA Commissioner's Cup, and the conclusion of the conference's playoffs. The Barangay Ginebra San Miguel and guest team Bay Area Dragons competed for the 20th Commissioner's Cup championship and the 132nd overall championship contested by the league.^[1]

The Bay Area Dragons are the first guest team since 1980 to appear in the PBA finals, while this is the second time in the past three Commissioner's Cup tournaments that Barangay Ginebra appeared in a Commissioner's Cup finals; they previously won the title in 2018 where they defeated the San Miguel Beermen in six games. Barangay Ginebra defeated Bay Area in seven games to claim their third Commissioner's Cup title in franchise history. Christian Standhardinger was named the finals MVP for this series.

Prior to the game, Barangay Ginebra's Scottie Thompson was awarded his second Best Player of the Conference award, and Barangay Ginebra import and Thompson's teammate Justin Brownlee was awarded the Best Import of the Conference award for the third time.^[2]

A day before the game, Bay Area's second import Myles Powell was reactivated in lieu of Andrew Nicholson who missed both games 4 and 5 due to an injury sustained during game 3.^[3]

The game was initially scheduled on January 13, 2023, but was moved to January 15 due to 'popular demand'.^[4]

On January 12, long-time Barangay Ginebra import Justin Brownlee became a naturalized Filipino citizen.^[5]

The game set the highest attendance ever in a PBA finals game with 54,589.^[6]

Barangay Ginebra San Miguel roster

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Players	Coaches
Pos. # POB Name Height Weight DOB (YYYY–MM–DD) From G/F 0 Gray, Jeremiah (R) 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) 205 lb (93 kg) 1996–08–16 Dominican (CA) G/F 2 Dillinger, Jared 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) 220 lb (100 kg) 1984–01–06 Hawaiʻi F 3 Malonzo, Jamie 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) 210 lb (95 kg) 1996–07–31 De La Salle G 5 Tenorio, LA (C) 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) 151 lb (68 kg) 1984–07–09 Ateneo G 9 Thompson, Scottie 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) 180 lb (82 kg) 1993–07–12 UPHSD G 11 Pringle, Stanley 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) 190 lb (86 kg) 1987–03–05 Penn State G 17 Pinto, John 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) 170 lb (77 kg) 1990–10–15 Arellano G/F 19 Pessumal, Von 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) 185 lb (84 kg) 1993–02–12 Ateneo F 23 Aguilar, Raymond 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) 200 lb (91 kg) 1985–07–27 National-U G/F 24 David, Jayson (R) 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) 191 lb (87 kg) 1996–11–08 Lyceum F/C 25 Aguilar, Japeth 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) 235 lb (107 kg) 1987–01–25 Western Kentucky F 27 Onwubere, Sidney 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) 1993–08–01 Emilio Aguinaldo F 31 Mariano, Aljon 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) 175 lb (79 kg) 1992–08–03 UST F 32 Brownlee, Justin (I) 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) 220 lb (100 kg) 1988–04–23 St. John's F/C 34 Standhardinger, Christian 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) 220 lb (100 kg) 1989–07–04 Hawaiʻi	Head coach Tim Cone Assistant coach(es) Richard del Rosario (1st assistant) Olsen Racela Freddie Abuda Kirk Collier Patrick Partosa Team manager Alfrancis Chua[a] Raymond Rodriguez (assistant) Legend (C) Team captain (CI) Commissioner's Cup Import (GI) Governors' Cup Import (EI) EASL Import (DP) Unsigned draft pick (FA) Free agent (IN) Inactive (S) Suspended (R) Rookie Injured Roster

• ^a Also serves as Barangay Ginebra's board governor.

Bay Area Dragons roster

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Players	Coaches
Pos. # POB Name Height Weight DOB (YYYY–MM–DD) From G 0 Ewing, Scotty 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) 1991–04–10 G 1 Yang, Glen 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) 190 lb (86 kg) 1996–08–30 F 6 Si Kun 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) 1995–02–27 F 8 Zhu Songwei 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) 226 lb (103 kg) 1996–11–09 F 9 Ju Mingxin 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) 205 lb (93 kg) 1993–03–10 F 11 Blankley, Hayden 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) 2000–07–04 G 13 Powell, Myles (I) 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) 195 lb (88 kg) 1997–07–07 G/F 15 Liang, Warren 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) 198 lb (90 kg) 1993–09–19 F 16 Song Jianhua 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) 204 lb (93 kg) 1991–01–20 C 21 Liu Chuanxing 7 ft 5 in (2.26 m) 287 lb (130 kg) 1999–07–30 G/F 22 Lam, Kobey 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) 170 lb (77 kg) 2000–03–02 F 25 Zheng Qilong 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) 1996–04–10 C 31 Zhang Zhiyuan 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) 1999–05–08 F/C 33 Reid, Duncan 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) 220 lb (100 kg) 1989–09–28 F/C 44 Nicholson, Andrew (I) 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) 250 lb (113 kg) 1989–12–08	Head coach Brian Goorjian Assistant coach(es) Pocholo Villanueva Bill Tomlinson Team manager Maya Montecillo Legend (C) Team captain (CI) Commissioner's Cup Import (GI) Governors' Cup Import (EI) EASL Import (DP) Unsigned draft pick (FA) Free agent (IN) Inactive (S) Suspended (R) Rookie Injured

The Commissioner Cup Finals was aired on TV5 & One Sports with simulcast on PBA Rush, SMART Sports on Facebook, SMART GigaPlay App, and Radyo5 92.3 News FM (both in standard and high definition).

The PBA Rush broadcast provided English language coverage of the Finals.

The SMART Sports Facebook broadcast provided English-Filipino language coverage of the Finals.

• Additional Game 7 crew:
  • Trophy presentation: Jutt Sulit
  • Celebration interviewer: Bea Escudero and Belle Gregorio

• PBA official website