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The race to the PBA Finals’ Most Valuable Player plum reflected how hotly contested the KFC Philippine Cup best-of-seven finals series is as no less than four Alaska players and three Talk n Text stalwarts are racing for the award.

A report posted on PBA.ph said that it is a wide-open Mighty Bond Finals MVP race among Alaskas’ Joe Devance, Sonny Thoss, LA Tenorio and Willie Miller and Talk ‘N Text’s Macmac Cardona, Jimmy Alapag and Harvey Carey.

The tight race for the Finals MVP award looms, following the hotly-contested Best Player of the Conference awarding to Miller.

Despite performing slightly below his standards in the championship series, Miller remained in contention for the MVP award for being Alaska's biggest savior in Games Two and Five.

Miller is averaging 14.6 points, 6.3 assists and 4.2 rebounds through the first six games of the Aces’ best-of-seven showdown with the Tropang Texters.

Joe Devance leads Alaska in scoring, Thoss in rebounding and Tenorio in assists.

Through Games One to Six, Devance averaged 15.5 points, 6.0 rebounds and 2.2 assists, Thoss registered 14.8 points, 8.0 rebounds and 1.3 assists while Tenorio marked averages of 11 points, 4.8 rebounds and seven assists.

Cardona, Alapag and Carey were the leaders for the Texters.

Carey was the only player averaging in double-double in the series with norms of 12.2 points and 11.2 rebounds a game.

Cardona is sharing 19.5 points, 4.3 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 1.5 steals per outing while Alapag contributes 17.8 points, 4.1 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 1.2 steals a game.