The 2008-09 PBA Philippine Cup Finals is the championship best-of-7 series of the 2008-09 PBA Philippine Cup, and the conclusion of the conference's playoffs. The Alaska Aces

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 Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters will play for the 97th championship contested by the league.

This is the first Philippine Cup Finals where no team from the San Miguel Corporation

San Miguel Corporation

Established in 1890 as a brewery, San Miguel Corporation is Southeast Asia's largest publicly listed food, beverage and packaging company with over 17,000 employees in over 100 major facilities throughout the Asia-Pacific....

 took part since 2000, and the second time the Aces and the Tropang Texters met in the finals, the first was from the 2007 PBA Fiesta Conference

2007 PBA Fiesta Conference

-Barangay Ginebra-San Miguel series:-Talk 'N Text-Air21 series:-Red Bull-Talk 'N Text series:-Alaska-San Miguel series:-Third-place playoff:-Finals:Prior to Game 1, Sandwich performed "Laban kung Laban," the TV theme song of the PBA....

 in which the Aces won in seven games.

Qualification

• Alaska Aces
  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...
  
  
  • Finished first in the elimination round with a 12–6 record
  • Defeated the Sta. Lucia Realtors
    Sta. Lucia Realtors
    The Sta. Lucia Realtors was a professional basketball team in the Philippine Basketball Association.The Universal Robina Corporation team is one of the founding members of the PBA. Formerly known as Great Taste and Presto-Tivoli Ice Cream, they have won a total of 6 championships. Sta...
    
    , 4–2 in the semifinals
• Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters
  • Finished second in the elimination round with a 11–7 record
  • Defeated 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...
    
    , 4–2 in the semifinals

Schedule

Rosters

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! colspan="2" style="background-color: black; text-align: center;"|Alaska Aces Finals roster
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! Players !! Coaches
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! Pos. !! # !! POB

Place of birth

The place of birth is the place where a person was born. This place is often used in legal documents, together with name and date of birth, to uniquely identify a person. The place of birth is not necessarily the place where the parents of the new baby live. If the baby is born in a hospital in...

  !! Name !! Ht. !! Wt. !! From
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! colspan="2" style="background-color:#fdd501; text-align: center;"|Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters Finals roster
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! Players !! Coaches
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{| class="sortable" style="background:transparent; margin:0px; width:100%;"
! Pos. !! # !! POB

Place of birth

The place of birth is the place where a person was born. This place is often used in legal documents, together with name and date of birth, to uniquely identify a person. The place of birth is not necessarily the place where the parents of the new baby live. If the baby is born in a hospital in...

  !! Name !! Ht. !! Wt. !! From
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Broadcast notes

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!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...

 !! Courtside reporters

Sideline reporter

A sideline reporter, also known as a field reporter, courtside reporter , clubhouse reporter or dugout reporter , rinkside reporter or inside-the-glass reporter , on-court reporter , hole reporter , or boundary rider , is a member of the...

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|Game 1 || Mico Halili || 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...

 || Dominic Uy & Lia Cruz

Lia Cruz

Lia Cruz is a television host, magazine columnist and sportscaster in the Philippines, now with The Kapatid Network TV5 as a host of travel and tech show Tech Trip and daily morning show Sapul sa Singko.-PBA Career:She is noted for being one of the youngest and most popular female sportscasters in...

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|Game 2 || Ed Picson || Jason Webb

Jason Webb

Jason Webb is a former professional soccer player and a Partner and Co-Founder of Soccer Shots, a national soccer program based in the Harrisburg, Pa. area that introduces children ages 3 – 8 to the game of soccer, as well as character development and fundamental life skills.Webb moved from...

 || Eric Reyes

Eric Reyes

Eric Reyes is a Puerto Rican international soccer player who plays college soccer for Florida International University, as a goalkeeper.-Career:...

 & Reema Chanco
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|Game 3 || Mico Halili || Andy Jao || Patricia Bermudez-Hizon

Patricia Bermudez-Hizon

Patricia Bermudez-Hizon is a sportscaster and television host in the Philippines. She is the first ever female basketball television and radio anchor in the country. She started as a courtside reporter for the PBA in...

 & Peaches Aberin
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|Game 4 || Jude Turcuato|| 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...

 || Magoo Marjon & Chesca Litton
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|Game 5 || Ed Picson || Jason Webb

Jason Webb

Jason Webb is a former professional soccer player and a Partner and Co-Founder of Soccer Shots, a national soccer program based in the Harrisburg, Pa. area that introduces children ages 3 – 8 to the game of soccer, as well as character development and fundamental life skills.Webb moved from...

 || Chiqui Reyes & Reema Chanco
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|Game 6 || Mico Halili || Andy Jao || Dominic Uy & Lia Cruz

Lia Cruz

Lia Cruz is a television host, magazine columnist and sportscaster in the Philippines, now with The Kapatid Network TV5 as a host of travel and tech show Tech Trip and daily morning show Sapul sa Singko.-PBA Career:She is noted for being one of the youngest and most popular female sportscasters in...

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|Game 7 || Jude Turcuato || Norman Black

Norman Black

Norman Augustus Black is an American retired professional basketball player in the CBA, NBA, and PBA who has since settled in the Philippines. He is also a former head coach of the San Miguel Beermen, Mobiline Phone Pals, Pop Cola 800s, and Sta. Lucia Realtors...

 || Dominic Uy & Chesca Litton
|}*Marjon filled in for Picson who mistenkly went to the Araneta Coliseum

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...

 instead of the Cuneta Astrodome

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...

 which was the Game 5 venue.

Music used in the coverage were "We Made It

We Made It (song)

"We Made It" is a promo single by rapper Busta Rhymes' featuring the rock band Linkin Park. The song was to be on Busta Rhymes's eighth studio album Back on My B.S., but was then cancelled off the tracklist because the album was released on a different label as "We Made It" was Busta Rhymes's last...

" by Busta Rhymes

Busta Rhymes

Trevor Tahiem Smith, Jr., better known by his stage name Busta Rhymes ,Smith is an American rapper, producer and actor. Chuck D of Public Enemy gave him the alias Busta Rhymes after NFL wide receiver George "Buster" Rhymes...

 featuring Linkin Park

Linkin Park

Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California. Formed in 1996, the band rose to international fame with their debut album, Hybrid Theory, which was certified Diamond by the RIAA in 2005 and multi-platinum in several other countries...

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External links

• PBA official website