The Alaska Aces and the Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters played for the 96th championship contested by the league.
This was the first Philippine Cup finals where no team from the San Miguel Corporation took part since 2000, and the second time the Aces and the Tropang Texters met in the finals, the first was from the 2007 PBA Fiesta Conference in which the Aces won in seven games.
Conference best player Willie Miller knocked in a big triple to make up for two crucial errors down the stretch.
TNT had a chance to salvage the game but Renren Ritualo misfired his own three-point try then Harvey Carey missed a tip-in in the last eight seconds.
[1] *Magoo Marjon Alternate for Ed Picson who mistakenly went to the Araneta Coliseum instead of the Cuneta Astrodome which was the Game 5 venue.