1987 San Miguel Beermen season

1987 San Miguel Beermen season
Head coach	Norman Black
Owner(s)	San Miguel Corporation
Open Conference Results
Record	16–8 (.667)
Place	3rd
Playoff finish	N/A
All-Filipino Conference Results
Record	10–9 (.526)
Place	3rd
Playoff finish	N/A
Reinforced Conference Results
Record	17–6 (.739)
Place	1st
Playoff finish	Finals
Stats @ PBA-Online.net
San Miguel Beermen seasons
1986	1988

The 1987 San Miguel Beermen season was the 13th season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). The team was known as Magnolia Ice Cream Makers in the first two conferences.

Off-season transactions

TRANSACTIONS
Abet Guidaben Acquired from Defunct Manila Beer Brewmasters
Ricky Cui Acquired from Defunct Manila Beer Brewmasters

Awards

• Center Alberto Guidaben bagged his second Most Valuable Player (MVP) award.
• Bobby Parks was named Best import of the Reinforced Conference
• Point Guard Hector Calma, was voted SCOOP Most Outstanding player of the finals series

Notable dates

• March 22: The first game of the season, Norman Black returns as Magnolia coach and import as the Ice Cream makers rout Hills Bros (formerly Alaska), 124-88. limited the Coffee kings to just 9 points in the second quarter and led by as much as 40 points in the final period.
• March 29: Magnolia rolled to its third straight win and solo leadership in the Open Conference with a 108-91 romp over Ginebra San Miguel, which absorbed its first loss in two outings.
• April 28: Magnolia weathered a desperate Tanduay rally to win, 109-101, halted the Rhum makers' six-game winning streak and stay in strong contention for an outright semifinals slot.
• June 2: The Ice Cream makers beat Ginebra San Miguel, 112-105, for their first win in three games in the semifinal round, snapping the Ginebras' 8-game winning run.
• June 7: Franz Pumaren drilled in two pressure charity shots with no time left to forged a second extension, as Magnolia escaped with a 134-130 double-overtime win over Ginebra San Miguel to tie the Gins at 2-3.
• October 4: San Miguel Beer, behind Bobby Parks and Samboy Lim, coming back from an ankle injury, posted a 123-113 win over the Billy Ray Bates led-Ginebra at the start of the Reinforced Conference.
• November 10: The Beermen kept its poise in the face of Ginebra's third quarter rally to win pulling away, 129-113, import Bobby Parks banged in 63 points and outscored his counterpart Billy Ray Bates with 54, San Miguel won their first game in the semifinals and their 17th victory in 19 meetings with Ginebra in the season.

Championship

San Miguel Beer went home with the Reinforced Conference title, behind best import Bobby Parks, defeating Hills Bros Coffee Kings, 4-1, in the finals, winning their Third PBA crown, and the first since 1982.

Main article: 1987 PBA Reinforced Conference Finals

Roster

San Miguel Beermen roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. # Name Height Weight DOB (YYYY-MM-DD) From 4.0 !F 4 Reyes, Elmer 73 !6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) – 1958-12-03 San Beda College 1.5 !G 5 Pumaren, Franz 69 !5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) – 1963-02-05 De La Salle 1.5 !G 6 Jarencio, Pido 70 !5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) – 1964-09-05 UST 1.5 !G 7 Almario, Alfie 72 !6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) – 1963-04-12 De La Salle 4.0 !F 9 Lim, Samboy 72 !6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) – 1962-04-01 Letran College 4.0 !F 10 Teng, Alvin 76 !6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) – 1965-03-04 Arellano University 6.0 !C 11 Yturri, Tonichi 77 !6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) – 1963-01-05 De La Salle 4.0 !F 12 Dignadice, Yves 76 !6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) – 1963-12-18 St. La Salle 1.5 !G 14 Calma, Hector 69 !5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) – 1960-03-02 Adamson University 4.0 !F 15 Cui, Ricky 75 !6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) – 1961-11-05 Arellano University 4.0 !F 17 Graves, Jeffrey 75 !6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) – 1965-03-02 Arellano University 6.0 !C 32 Guidaben, Abet 77 !6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) – 1952-09-14 University of San Jose-Recoletos 5.5 !F/C 24 Black, Norman (O) 77 !6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) – 1957-11-12 St.Joseph's (USA) 2.5 !G/F 22 Parks, Bobby (R) 75 !6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) – Memphis State University	Head coach Norman Black Assistant coach(es) Derrick Pumaren Legend (C) Team captain (I) Import (DP) Unsigned draft pick (FA) Free agent (IN) Inactive (S) Suspended (O) - Open Import (R) - Reinforced Import Injured

^{Team Manager: Sonny Valencia}

References

• "Magnolia mauls RP five". Manila Standard. 
• "Riproaring starts by San Miguel, Shell". Manila Standard.