Each of the five seasons had a different champion: the Pampanga Dragons, Manila Metrostars, San Juan Knights, Batangas Blades, and Negros Slashers.

The MBA folded in 2002 due to high costs of maintaining the league and ABS-CBN withdrawing its funding.

The MBA played its first game on March 7, 1998 at the Don Narciso Ramos Sports Complex in Lingayen, Pangasinan.

The MBA had a format similar to that of North America's National Basketball Association (NBA).

After the league adapted a semi-commercial format, in which teams are sponsored by companies, several methods were used to in determining the champion.

[7] The MBA on ABS-CBN premiered on March 7, 1998, when the league inaugurated its first season,[8] and ended on December 19, 2001.