2023–24 PBA 3x3 season

The 2023–24 PBA 3x3 season is the third season of the PBA 3x3, the 3x3 basketball league of the Philippine Basketball Association.

2023–24 PBA 3x3 season
Duration	July 3, 2023 – present
Number of teams	11
TV partner(s)	Local: One Sports TV5 PBA Rush (HD) International: AksyonTV International Online: GigaPlay
1st Conference champions	TNT Triple Giga
1st Conference runners-up	Cavitex Braves
Seasons
← 2022–23

Teams

All 12 franchise teams of the main 5-a-side Philippine Basketball Association are eligible to field a 3x3 team for the 2023–24 PBA 3x3 season,^[1] although the Converge FiberXers, Phoenix Super LPG Fuel Masters, and Rain or Shine Elasto Painters did not field a team.^[2] The Blackwater Bossing Red President changed their name into Blackwater Smooth Razor before the season.^[2] Two guest teams (Pioneer ElastoSeal Katibays and Wilcon Depot 3x3) participated, with Wilcon Depot 3x3 debuting this season, committing to play for at least one conference.^[3] Guest teams J&T Express and Platinum Karaoke, who both appeared during the previous season, took a leave of absence for this season.^[2]

Wilcon Depot 3x3 eventually became defunct after the first conference and was replaced by MCFASolver Tech Centrale starting from the second conference.^[4]

Team	Company	Coach
Barangay Ginebra San Miguel	Ginebra San Miguel, Inc.	Kirk Collier
Blackwater Smooth Razor	Ever Bilena	Junjie Ablan
Cavitex Braves	Metro Pacific Investments Corporation	Kyles Lao
Meralco Bolts 3x3	Manila Electric Company	Patrick Fran
MCFASolver Tech Centrale^[a]	MCFASolver Tech Centrale	Anton Altamirano
NorthPort Batang Pier	Sultan 900 Capital, Inc.	Alfredo Jarencio II
Pioneer ElastoSeal Katibays	Pioneer Epoxy Adhesives Inc.	Lester del Rosario
Purefoods TJ Titans	San Miguel Food and Beverage, Inc.	Tony Boy Espinosa
San Miguel Beermen	San Miguel Brewery, Inc.	Boycie Zamar
Terrafirma 3x3	Terrafirma Realty Development Corporation	Raymond Tiongco
TNT Triple Giga	Smart Communications	Mau Belen
Wilcon Depot 3x3^[a]	Wilcon Depot Inc.	Anton Altamirano

Format

The season's format will be highly similar to that of the previous season. The season will have three tournaments or conferences.^[5] Each conference will have six two-day legs and a grand final. The 11 teams will be divided into four pools, with pool A having three teams while pools B and C having four each. Teams within their pools will play in a single round-robin format. The top two teams of pool A and the top three teams of pools B and C will directly qualify for the quarterfinals. The knockout stage will be a single-elimination tournament and a third place game will also be held. The winner of each leg will receive ₱100,000, the runner-up will receive ₱50,000, while the third placed team will receive ₱30,000.^[6] The seedings and pool compositions for each leg will be based on the results of the preceding leg.

After six legs, the cumulative standings will be calculated and the top four teams will directly qualify for the quarterfinals of the Grand Finals. The fifth to tenth-placed teams will qualify for the preliminary round of the Grand Finals. The bottom teams will not qualify for the Grand Finals.^[7] The Grand Champion will receive ₱750,000, the runner-up will receive ₱250,000, while the third placed team will receive ₱100,000.

Starting this season, the games will be played in various Ayala Malls branches. In the first two years of PBA 3x3, the games were held at different Robinsons Malls branches.^[8]

First conference

Main article: 2023–24 PBA 3x3 season – First conference

The conference started on July 3 and ended on August 13, 2023.

Legs summary

Pos	Team	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg	4th leg	5th leg	6th leg	Pts	Qualification
1	Cavitex Braves	3rd	3rd	3rd	1st	1st	2nd	490	Qualification to Grand Finals quarterfinal round
2	TNT Triple Giga	6th	9th	1st	2nd	6th	1st	390
3	Barangay Ginebra San Miguel	1st	1st	7th	10th	3rd	5th	378
4	Meralco Bolts 3x3	7th	2nd	6th	3rd	5th	4th	345
5	San Miguel Beermen	2nd	5th	4th	5th	10th	7th	298	Qualification to Grand Finals preliminary round
6	Wilcon Depot 3x3	5th	8th	5th	4th	11th	3rd	281
7	Pioneer ElastoSeal Katibays	8th	6th	2nd	9th	2nd	11th	276
8	Blackwater Smooth Razor	9th	4th	8th	8th	7th	10th	208
9	NorthPort Batang Pier	11th	11th	11th	6th	4th	8th	188
10	Terrafirma 3x3	4th	10th	10th	7th	9th	9th	176
11	Purefoods TJ Titans	10th	7th	9th	11th	8th	6th	174

Source: PBA 3x3 Report

Grand Finals

Preliminary round

Pool A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	PCT	Qualification
1	San Miguel Beermen	2	1	1	38	30	+8	.500	Quarterfinals
2	Blackwater Smooth Razor	2	1	1	33	34	−1	.500
3	NorthPort Batang Pier	2	1	1	27	34	−7	.500

Source: PBA 3x3
Rules for classification: 1) Wins; Win ratio if unequal number of games; 2) Head-to-head record; 3) Average points per game; 4) Higher seed.

Pool B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	PCT	Qualification
1	Wilcon Depot 3x3	2	1	1	37	33	+4	.500	Quarterfinals
2	Pioneer ElastoSeal Katibays	2	1	1	34	31	+3	.500
3	Terrafirma 3x3	2	1	1	28	35	−7	.500

Source: PBA 3x3
Rules for classification: 1) Wins; Win ratio if unequal number of games; 2) Head-to-head record; 3) Average points per game; 4) Higher seed.

Knockout stage

Bracket

Seed refers to the position of the team after six legs. Letter and number inside parentheses denotes the pool letter and pool position of the team, respectively, after the preliminary round of the Grand Finals.

	Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Finals
	1	Cavitex Braves	21
	7 (B2)	Pioneer ElastoSeal Katibays	12
						1	Cavitex Braves	17
						4	Meralco Bolts 3x3	16
	5 (A1)	San Miguel Beermen	14
	4	Meralco Bolts 3x3	16
											1	Cavitex Braves	18
											2	TNT Triple Giga	21
	3	Barangay Ginebra San Miguel	18
	6 (B1)	Wilcon Depot 3x3	14
						3	Barangay Ginebra San Miguel	16			Third place
						2	TNT Triple Giga	21
	8 (A2)	Blackwater Smooth Razor	17								4	Meralco Bolts 3x3	18
	2	TNT Triple Giga	21								3	Barangay Ginebra San Miguel	14

Second conference

Main article: 2023–24 PBA 3x3 season – Second conference

The conference started on October 16, 2023.

Legs summary

Pos	Team	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg	4th leg	5th leg	6th leg	Pts
1	TNT Triple Giga	1st	1st					200
2	Cavitex Braves	2nd	7th					120
3	Meralco Bolts 3x3	3rd	5th					120
4	MCFASolver Tech Centrale	4th	6th					105
5	Blackwater Smooth Razor	7th	4th					100
6	Terrafirma 3x3	10th	2nd					98
7	Pioneer ElastoSeal Katibays	11th	3rd					86
8	Barangay Ginebra San Miguel	5th	9th					70
9	San Miguel Beermen	8th	8th					70
10	Purefoods TJ Titans	6th	10th					63
11	NorthPort Batang Pier	9th	11th					36

Source: PBA 3x3 Report

Notes

1. Wilcon Depot 3x3 became defunct after the first conference. MCFASolver Tech Centrale replaced the team starting from the second conference.

References

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