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The 2006 PBA Philippine Cup finals were the championship series of the 2005-06 PBA season's 2006 PBA Philippine Cup of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). The series was a best-of-seven affair and was the 91st championship disputed in the league. The teams competing are the first-seeded Purefoods Chunkee Giants and the third-seeded Red Bull Barako in a rematch of the finals of the previous conference.
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| Dates | July 5–21 | |||||||||
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| MVP | Marc Pingris | |||||||||
| Television | ABC | |||||||||
| Radio network | Radyo PBA | |||||||||
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- Purefoods Chunkee Giants
- The top seed qualified for the best-of-seven semifinals outright.
- Came back from a 1–3 series deficit against the Alaska Aces and won the semifinal series, four games to three.
- Red Bull Barako
- Finished third after the elimination round.
- Defeated Barangay Ginebra Kings in the quarterfinal series, 3–2
- Won semifinals against San Miguel Beermen, 4-3
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The following scoring summary is written in a line score format, except that the quarter numbers are replaced by game numbers.
| Team | Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3 | Game 4 | Game 5 | Game 6 | Wins |
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| Purefoods | 101 | 93 | 79 | 99 | 93 | 90 | 4 |
| Red Bull | 97 | 82 | 89 | 81 | 98 | 83 | 2 |
† denotes the number of overtimes
July 5 |
| Purefoods Chunkee Giants 101, Red Bull Barako 97 | ||
| Pts: Kerby Raymundo 30 James Yap 26 | Pts: Lordy Tugade 30 Enrico Villanueva 25 | |
Kerby Raymundo scored a career-high 30 points, while Yee added 12 points, including five crucial free throws, in the last two minutes. Purefoods pummeled Red Bull with a 60.9 percent field-goal shooting in the second quarter, and the Giants, nursing a 23–22 edge at the end of the opening period, zoomed to a 53–34 spread at halftime. The Bulls had a fiery chase in the third quarter. They were ahead 97–94 but went scoreless in the last 1:55 of play. Yee canned in two charities off a foul by Villanueva to tie the count at 97-all, and then Raymundo scored on a 15-foot jumper as the Giants surged ahead, 99-97, with time down to 30.9 seconds.
July 7 |
| Purefoods Chunkee Giants 93, Red Bull Barako 82 | ||
| Scoring by quarter: 24–13, 15–35, 28–14, 26–20 | ||
| Pts: James Yap 23 | Pts: Lordy Tugade 18 | |
The Giants were off to a great start in the first quarter by taking a 12-point lead. Red Bull bounced back behind Lordy Tugade and the rest of the team to take a 48-39 halftime lead. Richard Yee put in another sterling performance by banging all of his 17 points in the second half, while Marc Pingris pumped in a career-high 21 points, most of them in the shaded area, to help the Giants pull away.[1]
July 9 |
| Purefoods Chunkee Giants 79, Red Bull Barako 89 | ||
| Scoring by quarter: 13–16, 16–18, 23–32, 27–23 | ||
| Pts: James Yap 16 | Pts: Lordy Tugade 22 | |
Celino Cruz and Lordy Tugade fired all of Red Bull's seven three-pointers, most of them done in a fashion that riled the Giants while putting up a tough and gritty defense. Enrico Villanueva, Junthy Valenzuela, and Cyrus Baguio also had their sparkling moments that helped the Bulls pull away in the third period.[2]
July 12 |
| Purefoods Chunkee Giants 99, Red Bull Barako 81 | ||
| Scoring by quarter: 32–11, 34–23, 16–29, 17–18 | ||
| Pts: James Yap 23 | Pts: Enrico Villanueva 25 | |
Purefoods started hot from the get-go, with key games from newly crowned MVP James Yap and Most Improved Player Marc Pingris. The Giants led by as many as 34 points, and the Bulls never looked back.[3]
The Bulls came back from 15 points down. After Celino Cruz tied the count at 90-all with a triple and Enrico Villanueva and Larry Fonacier went to work, the Giants suddenly got cold feet. Season MVP James Yap muffed his last seven attempts from three-point range, while Kerby Raymundo missed a couple of point-blank attempts.[4]
| 2006 Philippine Cup Champions |
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Purefoods Chunkee Giants Seventh title |
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