1976 PBA season

{{Infobox PBA season league

| title = 1976 PBA season

| year = 1976

| logo =

| duration = March 21 – December 21, 1976

| no_of_teams = 9

| attendance =

| TV = BBC

| draft =

| top_pick =

| picked_by =

| MVP = Bogs Adornado
{{small|(Crispa Redmanizers)}}

| top_scorer =

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| conf1 = First Conference

| conf1_link = 1976 PBA First Conference

| conf1_champ = Crispa Redmanizers

| conf1_runner-up = Toyota Silver Tamaraws

| conf2 = Second Conference

| conf2_link = 1976 PBA Second Conference

| conf2_champ = Crispa Redmanizers

| conf2_runner-up = Toyota Silver Tamaraws

| conf3 = All-Philippine Championship

| conf3_link = 1976 PBA All-Philippine Championship

| conf3_champ = Crispa Redmanizers

| conf3_runner-up = Toyota Silver Tamaraws

| prevseason_link = 1975 PBA season

| prevseason_year = 1975

| nextseason_link = 1977 PBA season

| nextseason_year = 1977

}}

The 1976 PBA season was the second season of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).

Season highlights

The Crispa Redmanizers won all three conferences in the year to cap the first Grand Slam in the PBA. {{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tGwVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gwsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4998%2C3049265|title=Looking back:The PBA's history|publisher=Manila Standard}}
On December 21, Crispa achieved the first PBA Grandslam by winning the All-Philippine championship with a 110–92 win over Toyota Tamaraws in the deciding Game five of the finals. The Redmanizers, reinforced by Cyrus Mann and Bill Bunton, were down 0–2 in the series but won the last three games against their arch rivals, which had Byron "Snake" Jones and Howard Smith as their imports.
William "Bogs" Adornado wins his second Most Valuable Player Award. He also became the first player to reach the 2,000 point plateau when he scored 24 points in Crispa's title-clinching 101–100 win over Toyota in Game four of the First Conference finals on July 11.
The first-ever triple-overtime game took place on August 17, Noritake outlasts Tanduay, 153–151, on a jumper by Hubert Filipinas to decide the league's longest match.
Harry Rogers of 7-Up scored 75 points in their 157–134 win over Fiberlite on October 26, becoming the first PBA player/import to reach the 75-point output in a single game. {{cite news|url=http://crispatoyota.blogspot.com/1976/10/game-31-crispa-123-toyota-97-oct-26-1976.html|title=7-Up's Rogers fires 75|publisher=crispatoyota.blogspot.com}}

Opening ceremonies

The muses for the participating teams are as follows:

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! style= width="45%"| Team

! style= width="55%"| Muse

Crispa Redmanizers

| Valerie Floro

Noritake Porcelain Makers

| Josephine Oppus

N-Rich Coffee Creamers

| Vangie Sante

Quasar TV Makers

| Carmen Ronda

Royal Tru-Orange

| Tonette Pineda

7-Up Uncolas

| Alma Moreno

Tanduay Distillery

| Jane Murphy

Toyota Tamaraws

| Marianne de la Riva

U/Tex Wranglers

| Mitos Viola

Champions

First Conference: Crispa Redmanizers
Second Conference: Crispa Redmanizers
All-Philippine Championship: Crispa Redmanizers
Team with best win–loss percentage: Crispa Redmanizers (47–15, .758)
Best Team of the Year: Crispa Redmanizers (1st)

Individual awards

Most Valuable Player: Bogs Adornado (Crispa)
Rookie of the Year: Gil Cortez (Toyota)
Mythical Five:
Francis Arnaiz (Toyota)
Atoy Co (Crispa)
Ramon Fernandez (Toyota)
Bogs Adornado (Crispa)
Philip Cezar (Crispa)

Cumulative standings

Team	GP	W	L	PCT
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align=left\|Crispa Redmanizers / Denims	62	47	15	.758
align=left\|Toyota Silver Tamaraws	61	46	15	.754
align=left\|U/Tex Wranglers	50	27	23	.540
align=left\| Noritake Porcelain Makers / Festivals	50	27	23	.540
align=left\|Royal Tru-Orange	46	22	24	.478
align=left\| Quasar/Fiberlite	41	13	28	.378
align=left\|Tanduay Distillery	32	11	21	.344
align=left\| Seven-Up Uncolas	32	7	25	.219
align=left\|N-Rich Coffee Creamers	32	3	29	.094

Notes

The first and second conference of the season were officially named as All-Filipino Conference and Open Conference respectively. The first All-Filipino Conference was reclassified as an import-laced tournament since the league gave teams the option to hire foreign players or "imports". Both tournaments were renamed as First and Second Conference based on the records under the "Winners circle over the years" section of the official PBA Annual, Hardcourt, since its 2001 edition.

References

PBA