The 2009 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Fiesta Conference or known as the 2009 Motolite PBA Fiesta Conference for sponsorship reasons, was the last conference of the 2008-09 PBA season. It started on February 28 and finished on July 17. The tournament was shortened to accommodate the training of the national basketball team for the FIBA Asia Championship 2009 qualifying tournament for the 2010 FIBA World Championship. The last conference had games on Thursdays and Saturdays. The tournament is an import-laden format, which allows an import or a non-Filipino player for each team and with a new height limit of 6-foot-6.

Two teams had new names before the start of the conference: the former Red Bull Barako was now known as the Barako Bull Energy Boosters, and the former Air21 Express were called as the Burger King Titans. However, with the failure of several business deals that would have changed the franchise's upper management, the Titans renamed into the Burger King Whoppers by their seventh game into the conference, retaining their old management headed by the Lina family.

The following format was observed for the duration of the conference:^[1]

• The teams were divided into 2 groups, based on their performance in the 2008–09 PBA Philippine Cup elimination round. Group A are teams that finished the Philippine Cup's elimination round in 1st, 4th, 5th, 8th and 9th positions, while Group B are the 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th and 10th.

• Teams in a group will play against each other once and against teams in the other group twice; 14 games per team; Teams are then seeded by basis on win–loss records. Ties are broken among point differentials of the tied teams, except for ties for #2, #5 and #8. Standings will be determined in one league table; teams do not qualify by basis of groupings.
• Wildcard phase:
  • WC1: #3 vs. #10, with #3 having the twice-to-beat advantage
  • WC2: #4 vs. #9, with #4 having the twice-to-beat advantage
  • WC3: #5 vs. #8 in a knockout game
  • WC4: #6 vs. #7 in a knockout game
• Best-of-three quarterfinals:
  • QF1: WC2 vs. WC3
  • QF2: WC1 vs. WC4
• Best-of-seven semifinals:
  • SF1: QF1 vs. #1
  • SF2: QF2 vs. #2
• Third-place playoff: losers of the semifinals
• Best-of-seven Finals: winners of the semifinals
• This is basically same format used throughout the 2004-05 PBA season, save for WC3 and WC4 were conducted in a best-of-3 series.

The May 17 game between the Barangay Ginebra Kings and the Alaska Aces held at the Albay Astrodome in Legaspi was canceled when the playing court was judged as too slippery, with Ginebra leading 9–2, and 8:04 remaining in the first quarter. The game was stopped twice and the stoppages lasted two hours before the game was canceled. The game was restarted at the Araneta Coliseum on May 22.^[2]

Note: Rain or Shine and Burger King possessed the twice to beat advantage but it was not used as their opponents failed to win to extend the series into a deciding game.

• Fern-C Finals MVP: Jonas Villanueva
• Best Player of the Conference: Jayjay Helterbrand
• Best Import of the Conference: Gabe Freeman

The following is the list of imports, which had played for their respective teams at least once, with the returning imports in italics. Highlighted are the imports who stayed with their respective teams for the whole conference.

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Name	Team	Debuted	Last game	Record
Shawn Daniels	Burger King Titans	February 28	July 1	13–11
Anthony Johnson	Sta. Lucia Realtors	February 28	June 14	9–9
Charles Clark	Rain or Shine Elasto Painters	March 1	March 7	1–1
Scooter McFadgon	Barako Bull Energy Boosters	March 1	March 28	2–5
Tiras Wade	Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters	March 1	May 1	5–4
Brian Hamilton	Purefoods TJ Giants	March 1	March 15	2–2
Galen Young	Alaska Aces	March 4	March 12	0–3
JJ Sullinger	Coca-Cola Tigers	March 4	March 20	1–4
Rod Nealy	Barangay Ginebra Kings	March 4	April 3	2–5
Gabe Freeman	San Miguel Beermen	March 8	July 17	15–6
Jai Lewis	Rain or Shine Elasto Painters (2)	March 12	July 1	13–9
Rosell Ellis	Alaska Aces (2)	March 14	May 27	6–7
Jhamar Thorpe	Purefoods TJ Giants (2)	March 21	April 19	2–2
James Penny	Coca-Cola Tigers (2)	March 26	May 29	5–4
Jeff Varem	barako Bull Energy Boosters (2)	April 17	May 1	0–3
David Noel	Barangay Ginebra Kings (2)	April 20	July 17	14–6
Marquin Chandler	Purefoods TJ Giants (3)	April 29	June 14	5–4
Daryan Selvy	Barako Bull Energy Boosters (3)	May 3	May 15	0–3
Gary Forbes	Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters (2)	May 3	May 6	1–1
Rashad Bell	Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters (3)	May 13	May 29	1–2
Chris Williams	San Miguel Beermen (2)	May 17	May 22	1–1
Jamaal Williams	Barako Bull Energy Boosters (4)	May 27	May 27	0–1
All-Filipino line up	San Miguel Beermen	March 4	--	1–0
All-Filipino line up	Barangay Ginebra Kings	April 17	--	1–0
All-Filipino line up	Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters	May 1	--	0–1

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