Championship series of the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League's 2023 season
2023 MPBL Finals
Team
Coach
Wins
Pampanga Giant Lanterns
Dennis Pineda
3
Bacoor City Strikers
Alex Angeles
0
Dates
November 25 – December 2, 2023
MVP
Justine Baltazar
Northern finals
Pampanga def. San Juan, 2–0
Southern finals
Bacoor City def. Batangas City, 2–0
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The 2023 MPBL Finals was the championship series of the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League's (MPBL) 2023 season and the conclusion of the season's playoffs. In the best-of-five playoff, the North Division champion Pampanga Giant Lanterns faced the South Division champion Bacoor City Strikers, with both teams having not won an MPBL title nor appeared in the MPBL Finals before, this series would determine which team becomes the league's fifth different champions.[1] The series began on November 25, 2023 and ended on December 2, 2023.
In three games, the Pampanga Giant Lanterns completed the first Finals sweep in MPBL history, giving them their first MPBL championship and second league championship overall. Justine Baltazar was named Finals MVP of the series, becoming not only the first player in league history to be a recipient of both season MVP and Finals MVP, but also the first to win both awards in the same season.[2]
This was the first time since the league's national expansion in the 2018–19 season in which the Finals featured two Luzon-based teams. This was also the second consecutive Finals in which neither team is based in Metro Manila.
For sponsorship reasons, this series is officially known as the 2023 Nexus88 MPBL Finals presented by Xtreme.
^"Bacoor Strikers finish off Batangas, earn shot at Pampanga in MPBL Finals". Spin.ph. Retrieved November 18, 2023.
^"Pampanga sweeps Bacoor to win MPBL title on the road". Philippine Star. December 2, 2023. Retrieved December 2, 2023.
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