The '' ' only wild card champion ' '' are the 7th-seeded Barangay Ginebra Kings in the 2004 PBA Fiesta Conference after 7 years of championship drought they made an epic run all the way to the throne , in which the top 2 teams were given semifinal byes while the bottom eight went through a knock-out wild card tournament . Since the addition of the quarterfinal bye , no wild card has entered the Finals , although the Air21 Express won the third-place trophy at the 2005-06 PBA Fiesta Conference
2004 PBA Fiesta Conference
2004 PBA Fiesta Conference
Wild card (sports)