The 2006 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Philippine Cup or known as the 2006 Gran Matador Brandy Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Philippine Cup is the second conference of the 2005-06 PBA season. The tournament has four rounds, the wildcard playoffs, quarterfinals, semi-finals and the Finals. All nine teams are included in the playoffs. The Purefoods Chunkee Giants defeated Red Bull Barako in six games of the best-of-seven finals series.

Tournament format

Classification round

Team standings

Fifth seed playoff

Wildcard phase

Bracket

Quarterfinals

Games 1 to 4 were held at the Araneta Coliseum. Game 5 of Red Bull vs Ginebra was at the Ynares Center.

Semifinals

Games 1 to 5 were held in the Araneta Coliseum, while Games 6 and 7 were held at the Cuneta Astrodome.

Third place playoff

Finals

Broadcasters

The play-by-play commentators are Mico Halili, Ed Picson and Mon Liboro while the color commentators are Norman Black, Quinito Henson, Siot Tanquingcen, Jong Uichico and Chot Reyes. The courtside reporters are Richard del Rosario, Eric Reyes, Dominic Uy, Jason Webb, Peter Martin, Peaches Aberin and Patricia Bermudez-Hizon. The grand draw of Hope and Winston's Sports Ride promo was also broadcast during the halftime of Game 4 of the finals, as the said event will be the final promotional segment to be sponsored by tobacco companies broadcast during the finals until the Philippine government announced that commercials and sponsorships related to tobacco products on TV and Radio will be banned starting on January 1, 2007.

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