List of Philippine Basketball Association conferences explained

This is a list of Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) conferences. Conferences are tournaments within a season, as opposed to the North American usage where a conference is a grouping of teams. If a team wins all of the conferences in a season, it is said that they have won a Grand Slam.

Types of conferences

As of the 2023–24 season, there is a total of 134 conferences/tournaments held by the PBA since 1975. It was further broken down into three categories:

Active tournaments

Inactive tournaments

Special tournaments

Number of conferences

There had always been three conferences in a PBA season. The exceptions are:

List of conferences

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Notes

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