The Philippine Basketball Association slapped sanctions on Meralco Bolts’ Allein Maliksi after an endgame scuffle involving him and Converge FiberXers’ Barkley Eboña of their match Friday within the 2023 PBA Governors’ Cup.
Maliksi can be suspended of their subsequent recreation as a result of incident and was fined P75,000.
Eboña, alternatively, was fined P5,000 and obtained a warning from the league.
The sanctions have been handed after the 2 gamers met with Deputy Commissioner Eric Castro on the PBA workplace.
Maliksi was seen holding Eboña by the neck after the latter clotheslined the Meralco veteran.
In a press release, Meralco stated Maliksi didn’t apply stress on Eboña’s neck and held himself again from extra motion.
However, Converge stated in a press release that medico-legal findings revealed Eboña had “soft tissue injury secondary to mauling.” The FiberXers additionally denounced what it referred to as an “assault” on one in every of its gamers.
Maliksi and the Bolts have each issued apologies for what transpired within the stated scuffle.
Maliksi will serve his suspension in the course of the Bolts’ recreation towards Phoenix Fuelmasters on Sunday.
—Justin Kenneth Carandang/JMB, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
