CALVIN Abueva has been fined P100,000 for a mocking gesture on San Miguel coach Jorge Gallent on Sunday during Game Two of the PBA 48th Season Commissioner’s Cup Finals at the MOA Arena.
Abueva was sanctioned under a league rule which states that “any person who offends the dignity of any person on account of a ‘physical disability’ shall be subject to a fine not lower than P100,000.”
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PBA commissioner Willie Marcial said Abueva, in an appearance at the PBA office on Tuesday, bared that he had already apologized to Gallent on the night of the incident, and that Gallent accepted the apology.
The controversial Magnolia forward got in trouble with the league again for mocking Gallent’s physical disability in Game Two which the Beermen won, 109-85.
The second-year San Miguel coach has been left blind in his right eye by a motorcycle accident in 1988, and is using an artificial one.
Abueva’s gesture was done on the bench after he was replaced at the 9:52 mark of the fourth quarter of Game Two. It was caught on camera by the television crew, and seen by the public.
Abueva and Gallent were later slapped with technical fouls for a brief verbal exchange while the Magnolia bruiser was on his way to the bench.
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