| Year: | 2000 |
| Conference Name: | All-Filipino Cup |
| Duration: | February 20 – June 11, 2000 |
| Tv: | Viva TV (IBC) |
| Best Player: | Kenneth Duremdes |
| Finals Mvp: | Poch Juinio |
| Champion: | Alaska Milkmen |
| Runner-Up: | Purefoods TJ Hotdogs |
| Prevconf Link: | 1999 PBA All-Filipino Cup |
| Prevconf Year: | 1999 |
| Nextconf Link: | 2001 PBA All-Filipino Cup |
| Nextconf Year: | 2001 |
| Prev Conf: | 1999 Governors' |
| Prev Conf Link: | 1999 PBA Governors' Cup |
| Next Conf: | 2000 Commissioner's |
| Next Conf Link: | 2000 PBA Commissioner's Cup |
The 2000 PBA All-Filipino Cup or known as the 2000 Alaxan PBA All-Filipino Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the first conference of the 2000 PBA season. It started on February 20 and ended on June 11, 2000. The tournament is an All-Filipino format, which doesn't require an import or a pure-foreign player for each team.
The following format will be observed for the duration of the conference:
Group A:
Group B:
Mobiline had a better quotient on their games among Shell and Barangay Ginebra hence they were awarded with the #7 seed.[1]
On May 22, PBA commissioner Jun Bernardino forfeited Tanduay's Games 2 and 3 victories in favor of Purefoods for the deportation of Sonny Alvarado. Purefoods now leads the series 2 - 1.The day after Tanduay swept the series 3 - 0, the Bureau of Immigration and Deportation (BID) revoked Sonny Alvarado's Filipino citizenship as it uncovered that the player used fraudulent papers; consequently, the BID ordered Alvarado's deportation. This caused PBA commissioner Jun Bernardino to forfeit two of Tanduay's semifinal wins (Games 2 and 3) since Alvarado played in those games (he didn't play in the first game). The league earlier forfeited Batang Red Bull's wins when 18-year-old Kerby Raymundo was found to have deficient academic credentials. With the forfeitures, the series would have resumed on Game 4 with Purefoods leading the series 2 - 1; however, Tanduay secured a temporary restraining order (TRO) that prevented the league from staging Game 4 of their series.[2] The league suspended the Game 4 on the May 24 playdate, the first time a game has been suspended for a cause other than a typhoon, an earthquake, or a bomb threat.[3]
PBA legal counsel Butch Cleofe warned that Tanduay faced suspension from the league, a hefty fine and even expulsion when it fails to show up on the May 26 playdate. A P500,000 fine faced the franchise plus other penalties the commissioner may impose.[4] Prior to the game, Tanduay was able to secure an extension of the TRO hence Game 4 was suspended for a second time; this has been the first time a PBA game has been suspended via a court order. The league has already lost P600,000 on gate receipts and Viva TV lost about P2 million in TV commercials.[5] The league rejected Tanduay's offer of resetting the series with them leading 1 - 0, with the games that Alvarado played declared as "no contests"; the league insisted that the Rhum Masters play Game 4 with them trailing 1 - 2.[6] On May 30, Tanduay relented and agreed to play Game 4 with them trailing 1 - 2. Bernardino would deal with Tanduay's actions "accordingly with due process". To prevent such events from happening again, the PBA Board has decided that Filipino-Americans would have to secure clearances from the BID and the Department of Justice (DOJ; previously, only a BID clearance was sufficient).[7]
When Game 4 was finally played, the game went into overtime; Purefoods' Boyet Fernandez converted a three-point field goal with 0.2 of a second remaining to seal Purefoods' unlikely Finals qualification against 1990s rival Alaska.[8]
See main article: 2000 PBA All-Filipino Cup finals. Alaska won the title on Game 5 despite trailing by six points late in the fourth quarter; Rodney Santos and Poch Juinio carried the scoring slack when Bong Hawkins and Johnny Abarrientos had bad starts. Abarrientos was able to make it up by hitting a jump-shot to give the Milkmen the lead 85 - 82. Noy Castillo converted both free-throws to cut the lead to one. Alaska missed four free-throws, including two intentional misses by James Wallkvist with 0.5 of a second remaining to clinch their first All-Filipino championship since 1998. Alvin Patrimonio had a series-best 22 points but went scoreless at the final quarter that helped Alaska to catch up.