2024–25 PBA Commissioner's Cup


The 2024–25 PBA Commissioner's Cup, also known as the 2024–25 Honda PBA Commissioner's Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the second conference of the 2024–25 PBA season of the Philippine Basketball Association. The 22nd edition of the Commissioner's Cup started on November 27, 2024, and ended on March 28, 2025. The tournament allowed teams to hire foreign players or imports with unlimited height limit.
It was initially reported that the champions of this conference would represent the Philippines at the 2025 Basketball Champions League Asia, before it was instead awarded to the Meralco Bolts as champions of the 2024 PBA Philippine Cup. The PBA previously skipped the 2024 edition of the Asian continental club tournament.

Format

  • All participating teams played in a single round-robin elimination, with each team playing 12 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:
  • *QF1: #1 vs #8
  • *QF2: #2 vs #7
  • *QF3: #3 vs #6
  • *QF4: #4 vs #5
  • Semifinals :
  • *SF1: QF1 winner vs. QF4 winner
  • *SF2: QF2 winner vs. QF3 winner
  • Finals
  • *F1: SF1 winner vs SF2 winner

Quarterfinals

(1) NorthPort vs. (8) Magnolia

NorthPort has the twice-to-beat advantage; they have to be beaten twice, while their opponents just once, to advance.

(2) TNT vs. (7) Eastern

TNT has the twice-to-beat advantage; they have to be beaten twice, while their opponents just once, to advance.

(3) Converge vs. (6) Rain or Shine

This is a best-of-three playoff.

(4) Barangay Ginebra vs. (5) Meralco

This is a best-of-three playoff.

Semifinals

The semifinals is a best-of-seven playoff.

Finals

This is a best-of-seven playoff.

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.
Guest team Eastern is also subjected to the same rules with the PBA making it choose between Cameron Clark or Chris McLaughlin as its designated import player, although it also has other players born outside Hong Kong in its PBA roster.