PBA Commissioner 's Cup is a tournament of the Philippine Basketball Association . Along with the PBA Governors ' Cup , the tournament ( also named as " conference " ) is one of the two competitions in a PBA season that allows teams to hire a single foreign player , also known as an " import " . The tournament was first held in 1993 as the PBA season 's second competition . The tournament was discontinued when the Invitational Championship was reintroduced in 2003 . From 2004 to 2010 , the league decreased their tournaments per season from three to two competitions ; one All-Filipino tournament , named as the Philippine Cup and one with imports , named as the Fiesta Conference The tournament was re-instated in 2011 as the second competition of the PBA season after the league re-adopted the three conference format
Invitational Championship
2003 PBA Invitational Championship
PBA Commissioner's Cup