[1] After a year of stoppage of play, the league got an approval from the IATF-EID and resumed the playoffs on March 10, 2021, inside a bubble hosted by Subic.
The Tigers eventually won the championship after beating the Knights in four games, avenging their last season's finals loss in 2019.
Seeding was based on winning percentage, with tiebreaker rules applied should multiple teams have the same record.
During the first two rounds, two games within the same division were played in a gameday, with homecourt advantage alternating between the higher-seeded teams of each series.
Financial troubles amid the COVID-19 pandemic caused key players of the Makati side to not play for the team in the crucial do-or-die game.
[7] The league decided that should another member of the Basilan delegation test positive, the game would be defaulted and Davao Occidental would win the series and the division title.
The series was a rematch of the last season's finals between both teams, with San Juan winning last year's championship in five games.
The Tigers avenged their last season's finals loss against the Knights, defeating them in four games to win the title.
During the midst of the suspension, ABS-CBN's franchise expired, thus all post-suspension games were aired on A2Z, formed via a blocktime agreement with ZOE Broadcasting Network.