| Year: | 1984 |
| Conference Name: | Invitational championship |
| Duration: | November 18 – December 18, 1984 |
| Tv: | Vintage Sports (MBS) |
| Best Import: | Jeff Collins |
| Champion: | Great Taste Coffee Makers |
| Runner-Up: | Crispa Redmanizers |
| Prevconf Link: | 1982 PBA Invitational championship |
| Prevconf Year: | 1982 |
| Nextconf Link: | 2003 PBA Invitational championship |
| Nextconf Year: | 2003 |
| Prev Conf: | 1984 Second All-Filipino |
| Prev Conf Link: | 1984 PBA Second All-Filipino Conference |
| Next Conf: | 1985 Open |
| Next Conf Link: | 1985 PBA Open Conference |
The 1984 PBA Invitational championship was the third conference of the 1984 PBA season. It started on November 18 and ended on December 18, 1984. Imports return to action after two All-Filipino conferences.
The following format will be observed for the duration of the tournament:
These are win–loss records from the two All-Filipino conferences' elimination rounds this season:
| Year: | 1984 |
| Conference: | Invitational championship |
| Champion Games: | 3 |
| Runnerup Games: | 2 |
| Date: | December 9 to December 18, 1984 |
| Television: | Vintage (GTV) |
| Prev Conf: | 1984 Second All-Filipino |
The 1984 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Invitational championship finals was the best-of-5 basketball championship series of the 1984 PBA Invitational. Great Taste Coffee Makers and Crispa Redmanizers played for the 28th championship contested by the league.
Great Taste Coffee Makers won their finals series against Crispa via 3–2 series.
The following scoring summary is written in a line score format, except that the quarter numbers are replaced by game numbers.
| align=left width=28% | Team | width=6% | Game 1 | width=6% | Game 2 | width=6% | Game 3 | width=6% | Game 4 | width=6% | Game 5 | width=6% | Wins |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Taste | 138 | 117 | 103 | 117 | 127 | 3 | |||||||
| Crispa | 115 | 118 | 116 | 105 | 106 | 2 | |||||||
The Coffee Makers were ahead by only seven, 89-82, going into the final period, Ricardo Brown hit nine points in an 11-2 blast as their lead ballooned to 14 points, 100-86. Import Jeff Collins took over the scoring chores and came up with an eight-point run for Great Taste to decide the issue, 114-92.The Redmanizers took a 75-71 lead in the third quarter, after trailing the Coffee Makers throughout the game. In the fourth period, after a three-point play by Freddie Hubalde to tie the count at 90-all, a 9-2 run by Great Taste, resulted to a seven-point spread with nine minutes left in the ballgame. Going into the last two minutes of play, Jeff Collins' reverse dunk gave the Coffee Makers a five-point lead but Freddie Hubalde's two unanswered baskets bring the Great Taste' lead to only one with 1:05 to go. Ricardo Brown scored two-for-two from the stripe after being hacked by Carlton Willis, 117-114 for Great Taste. Willis then scored on a short drive with 35 seconds left, the Coffee Makers became a little too lax and Ricardo Brown snapped off a jumper that was too strong it bounced off the ring right into the hands of Abet Guidaben, a lead pass to Arturo Cristobal, who spotted Freddie Hubalde waiting in the frontcourt and scored with 4.4 seconds on the clock. Great Taste calls two timeouts and in the inbound play, Jeff Collins broke free and went for a three-pointer that was short, the Redmanizers evened up the series at one game each.From a 51-49 halftime edge in favor of Crispa, the Coffee Makers started the third period on an 8-0 run for a 57-51 lead as the Redmanizers were held scoreless in the first 1:36 of the second half. Philip Cezar scored on a lay-up that set off Crispa's own 11-2 blast that pushed them ahead, 62-59. With 1:26 left in the third quarter, Crispa got their first double-digit lead at 79-69. The Redmanizers went up by 14 points in the fourth quarter, 90-76, but Great Taste rallied to within 94-98 with still 5:28 remaining. A three-point play by Abet Guidaben off Alejo Alolor's fourth foul seal the Coffee Makers' fate and Philip Cezar followed that up with a lay-up on a four on one fastbreak, 103-94 for Crispa.The Coffee Makers took a 47-36 advantage in the second quarter but the Redmanizers came back and even lead at halftime, 57-54. In the fourth quarter from a precarious 103-97 six-point edge for Great Taste, Jeff Collins did the scoring for the Coffee Makers in a three-minute span to settle the issue, 112-99.Jeff Collins sparked three devastating spurts that opened a commanding 56-40 lead for the Coffee Makers late in the second quarter, a finishing 15-6 third quarter run by Great Taste put the game's outcome beyond doubt. Abet Guidaben of Crispa fouled out with 1:58 left in the third quarter to hasten the Redmanizers' downfall. Great Taste raced to a 28-point margin, 108-80 with 4:54 left in the final period.[2]