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.
- The PBA implement for the first time, a series of best-of-three, best-of-five and best-of-seven format to determined a champion in the Reinforced Filipino Conference which was the first tournament.
- Toyota Super Corollas won two championships in the year capped by center Ramon Fernandez winning his first Most Valuable Player Award.
- A PBA North vs South All-Star series was held in Cebu City, the North and South team split their two games, emerging as the All-Star MVP of the two-game series was Toyota's Arnie Tuadles who scored 50 points in their first match.
- San Miguel Beer won the Invitational championship over Crispa, for the franchise' 2nd PBA title.
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