1976 PBA Season - Notable Events

Notable Events

  • The Crispa Redmanizers won all three conferences in the year to capped the very first Grand Slam in the PBA.
  • July 11: Crispa beats Toyota, 101-100 in Game 4, to clinch the series and the First Conference title, 3-1.
  • November 12: the Redmanizers repeated over the Toyota Tamaraws in the Second Conference finals, winning Game 4, 103-94 for a 3-1 series victory and their third straight championship.
  • 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 Toyota, the Redmanizers, reinforced by Cyrus Mann and Bill Bunton, defeats the Tamaraws which had Byron "Snake" Jones and Howard Smith as their imports, 110-102 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.

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