After the 1976 PBA Season’s top performers had been determined with Crispa’sAtoy Co edging Francis Arnaiz of Toyota for the honor, a group of sportswriters, who covered the entire second year of the country’s play-for-pay league, along with chief statistician Fred Luarca, formed a panel of selectors to sit down and decide who the other standouts were.

Bogs Adornado also of Crispa was cinch for the back-to-back MVP despite not seeing action for part of the Second Conference and the whole All-Philippine Championship due to knee injury.