The 1998

1998 PBA season

The 1998 PBA season was the 24th season of the Philippine Basketball Association .-Season Highlights:*The PBA is in their toughest challenge for the year, with the formation of a new league called Metropolitan Basketball Association, backed by the giant network ABS-CBN, is perceived to be a threat...

 PBA All Filipino Cup Finals is the best-of-7 basketball championship series of the 1998 PBA All-Filipino Cup

1998 PBA All-Filipino Cup

The 1998 Philippine Basketball Association Centennial All-Filipino Cup, is the first conference of the 1998 PBA season. It started on February 1st and ended on May 8, 1998.-Team standings:-Team standings:...

, and the conclusion of the conference's playoffs. The Alaska Milkmen

Alaska Aces (PBA)

The Alaska Aces is a professional basketball team in the Philippine Basketball Association since 1986 under the ownership of the Alaska Milk Corporation and the owner of 13 PBA championships with the 2010 PBA Fiesta Conference as their latest...

 and the San Miguel Beermen

San Miguel Beermen

The Petron Blaze Boosters is a professional basketball team in the Philippine Basketball Association. The team has been a member of the league since its inception in 1975 and hold the most PBA titles with 19.The team is owned by the Petron Corporation, a subsidiary of the Philippines' largest food...

 played for the All Filipino championship as the country celebrates its centennial year.

Series scoring summary

Team	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5	Game 6	Game 7	Wins
Alaska Milk	69	80	89	90	73	99	72	4
San Miguel Beer	76	64	84	97	78OT	61	63	3
Venue	Cuneta Cuneta Astrodome Cuneta Astrodome is an indoor sporting arena located in Pasay, Philippines. It is better known as the home of the Philippine Basketball Association from 1993, when it left the PhilSports Arena, then known as the ULTRA, until 1998...	Araneta Araneta Coliseum The Smart Araneta Coliseum, known as The Big Dome is an indoor multi-purpose sports arena located in the Cubao area of Quezon City, Philippines...	Provincial	Araneta Araneta Coliseum The Smart Araneta Coliseum, known as The Big Dome is an indoor multi-purpose sports arena located in the Cubao area of Quezon City, Philippines...	Cuneta Cuneta Astrodome Cuneta Astrodome is an indoor sporting arena located in Pasay, Philippines. It is better known as the home of the Philippine Basketball Association from 1993, when it left the PhilSports Arena, then known as the ULTRA, until 1998...	Araneta Araneta Coliseum The Smart Araneta Coliseum, known as The Big Dome is an indoor multi-purpose sports arena located in the Cubao area of Quezon City, Philippines...	Araneta Araneta Coliseum The Smart Araneta Coliseum, known as The Big Dome is an indoor multi-purpose sports arena located in the Cubao area of Quezon City, Philippines...

Game 1

Game 2

Game 3

A near-fight took place in the finals road game, when beerman Art Dela Cruz threw a punch on Alaska center Poch Juinio.

Game 4

Alaska controlled the game most of the way, the beermen rallied in the final minute, a triple by Mike Mustre gave San Miguel a 92-88 edge, San Miguel forward Nelson Asaytono scored 40 points.

Game 5

Regulation ended at 66-all, beerman Nelson Asaytono scored 41 points and was a one-man, do-it-all for San Miguel

Game 6

Most lopsided win in finals history

Game 7

From a 32-31 halftime edge by Alaska, the beermen led for the last time at 41-39, from a 43-all standoff, an 9-0 run by the Milkmen gave them a 52-43 lead going into the final quarter, Alaska was protecting a 10-point lead at 64-54, when a 7-0 blast by San Miguel, anchored on a three-point play by Nelson Asaytono and a jumper by rookie Danny Ildefonso close the gap to 64-61 entering the final two minutes, two crucial errors by Asaytono, losing the ball twice, and a clutch basket by Alaska's Johnny Abarrientos sealed the outcome at 70-63 with only few seconds left.

1998 PBA All-Filipino Cup Champions
Alaska Milkmen Eight title

Broadcast notes

Game	Play-by-play	Analyst Color commentator A color commentator is a sports commentator who assists the play-by-play announcer, often by filling in any time when play is not in progress. The color analyst and main commentator will often exchange comments freely throughout the broadcast, when the play-by-play announcer is not describing the...
Game 1	Noli Eala Noli Eala Jose Emmanuel M. Eala, better known as Noli Eala, was the sixth commissioner of the Philippine Basketball Association from 2003 to 2007. Before he became the commissioner of the league, he was a play-by-play commentator of Viva-Vintage Sports, which broadcasts the PBA Games, from the early 1990s...	Andy Jao
Game 2	Ed Picson	Quinito Henson Quinito Henson Quinito Henson is a Filipino sports analyst and television color commentator. His newspaper column, Sporting Chance, has appeared in the Philippine Star since the 1980s...
Game 3	Chino Trinidad	Yeng Guiao Yeng Guiao Joseller "Yeng" Guiao is a Filipino professional basketball head coach for the Rain or Shine Elasto Painters in the Philippine Basketball Association, and was also the head coach of the Philippine National Basketball Team. Guiao won four PBA titles since starting his head coaching job for Swift in...
Game 4	Noli Eala Noli Eala Jose Emmanuel M. Eala, better known as Noli Eala, was the sixth commissioner of the Philippine Basketball Association from 2003 to 2007. Before he became the commissioner of the league, he was a play-by-play commentator of Viva-Vintage Sports, which broadcasts the PBA Games, from the early 1990s...	Andy Jao
Game 5	Ed Picson	Quinito Henson Quinito Henson Quinito Henson is a Filipino sports analyst and television color commentator. His newspaper column, Sporting Chance, has appeared in the Philippine Star since the 1980s...
Game 6	Noli Eala Noli Eala Jose Emmanuel M. Eala, better known as Noli Eala, was the sixth commissioner of the Philippine Basketball Association from 2003 to 2007. Before he became the commissioner of the league, he was a play-by-play commentator of Viva-Vintage Sports, which broadcasts the PBA Games, from the early 1990s...	Andy Jao and Noy Castillo Noy Castillo Noy Castillo is a retired Filipino-American professional basketball player who played for the Shell Velocity and Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants in the Philippine Basketball Association.-Shell Velocity:...
Game 7	Ed Picson	Quinito Henson Quinito Henson Quinito Henson is a Filipino sports analyst and television color commentator. His newspaper column, Sporting Chance, has appeared in the Philippine Star since the 1980s...  and Vince Hizon

External links

• PBA official website