1991 PBA Season - Season Highlights

Season Highlights

• The PBA Rookie draft, was aired on TV lived for the first time in league history.
• March 17: Import Richard Hollis of Purefoods converted on a follow-up shot as the game clock expired, Purefoods won over Shell, 124-123. The game was immediately placed under protest, the following day, a replay was ordered. the PBA, acting on the protest filed by Shell, discovered a malfunction on the game clock and the buzzer at the ULTRA.
• April 9: In a replay of the controversial Shell-Purefoods game, Shell won convincingly, 114-102. This was Joe Cantada's farewell performance. After a decade of covering the PBA games, Smokin' Joe bade goodbye unexpectedly because of health problems. This resulted in a bum stomach that rushed him in Makati Medical Center later that day.
• April 21: An era in Philippine Basketball ended when Virgilio "Baby" Dalupan resigned as head tactician of Purefoods Hotdogs. Dalupan cited his difference with management as the reason for his resignation.
• April 21: Ginebra came back from 19 points down in the fourth quarter, trailing 117-124, a decisive 9-1 salvo in the last 32 seconds enable the Gins to turn back the tide versus Diet Sarsi sizzlers. The game became one of the greatest comebacks in PBA history.
• May 19: Ginebra San Miguel make another history in the PBA record books as the first ever team to come back in a 3-1 series deficit to beat Shell Rimula-X in game 7 of the best-of-7 1st conference championship showdown. Rudy Distrito made a difficult baseline fadeaway shot against Martin & Paras with one second remaining to give Ginebra their third PBA title.
• The PBA took a break on November 24-December 5, before the Third Conference Finals, with the staging of the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games here in Manila, and in support of our Philippine National Basketball team campaigning for the Cage Gold it lost to Malaysia two years ago in Kuala Lumpur and reclaim basketball supremacy in Southeast Asia.