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PBA Inaugural Cup
Start of Games	April 9, 2013
End of Games	June 6, 2013 (Expected)
Number of Games	TBD
Broadcast Partners	PBA on Rizon
Finals
Champions	TBD
Second Place	TBD
Third Place	Petronas Cules
Fourth Place	Malaysia Al-Mirsat
Awards
Season MVP	TBD
Finals MVP	TBD
Best Import	TBD
Defensive Player	TBD
Sixth Man	Marvin Pagente

The Philippine Basketball Association Inaugural Cup is the only conference of the premier season of the association. The tournament began on April 9, 2013 (Day 1967) and expected to finish on or before June 6, 2013 (Day 2025). The tournament is an import-laden format, where teams picked an import or a pure-foreign player for each team and with no height limit. From the semifinal round onwards, the tournament is sponsored by the Bamboo Group of Companies.

Format

The tournament format for this conference is as follows:

• Double round-robin eliminations, with each of the 8 teams playing 14 games. Each team plays the other teams twice.
• Top four teams will advance to the semifinals. The teams will be ranked by win percentage. Ties will be broken by point difference, then by the scores in the games between the tied teams. If the tie persists, tie-breaker game/s will be played.
• Semifinals (best-of-3 series*):
  • SF1: #1 vs #4
  • SF2: #2 vs #3
• Finals (best-of-5 series):
  • SF1 vs SF2 winners

Note: * if a team sweeps (i.e. wins all its games), they will get a twice-to-beat advantage.

Elimination round

Team standings

 a - clinched first place,  o - clinched play-off berth,  x - eliminated

Results

      Win
      Win via OT
      Loss
      Loss via OT

• Number of asterisks (*) denotes the number of overtime periods.

Bracket

Semifinals

Malaysia Al-Mirsat-Red Horse Energy Kings Series

Red Guards-Petronas Cules Series

Third-Place Playoff

Finals

All-Stars

Main article: First PBA All-Stars

Three Point Shootout

The board picked from the players the 12 best three-point shooters. They contended in a three-point shootout event on May 24 in the Eugene Bautista Memorial Stadium. Drev Harder of the Petronas Cules emerged as the winner of the event after scoring 19 in the final round against Von Bonoan of the Red Horse Energy Kings who only scored 15.

All-Stars Game

The public voted from Day 1997 to Day 2011 their favorite players in each position and favorite managers and board members. After tallying the votes, the top two managers then picked two players each from the top four players in each position. These were the teams that played during the all-stars game on May 24 with the managers serving as head coach.

Imports

The following is the list of imports, which had played for their respective teams at least once. Highlighted are the imports who stayed with their respective teams for the whole conference.

Conference records

Records marked with an asterisk (*) were accomplished with one or more overtime periods.

Team

Individual

Awards

Individual Awards

• Most Valuable Player of the Season: TBA

• Best Import of the Conference: TBA

• Defensive Player of the Year: TBA

Statistical Awards

• Scoring Champion Award: Nino Canaleta (Jollibee Stingers)

• Rebounds Leader Award: Jay Washington (Petronas Cules)

• Assists Leader Award: Jayvee Casio (Petronas Cules)

Team Awards

• First Mythical Team
  • TBA
• Second Mythical Team
  • TBA
• All-Defensive Team
  • TBA

Special Awards

• Coach of the Year: TBA

• Sixth Man Award: Marvin Pagente (Red Horse Energy Kings)

• Sportsmanship Award: Von Bonoan (Red Horse Energy Kings)

All Star Awards

• All-Star Most Valuable Player: James Yap (Green Bamboos) and Timothy Laranang (Pink Unicorns)

Players of the Week