JERICHO Cruz was conspicuously missing from Game Three of the PBA Commissioner’s Cup Finals on Wednesday on the court and even on the bench.
Why, you might ask?
Well, the San Miguel guard sat out the contest because of a one-game suspension that was automatically handed to him by the league.
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Under league rules, a player is sanctioned with an automatic one-game suspension once he accumulated a total of five technical fouls during a conference.
Cruz was called for the technical foul in Game Two after taunting Calvin Abueva at the 1:49-mark of the third quarter of Game Two which the Beermen won, 109-85, to take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven title series.
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Cruz taunted Abueva by sticking out his tongue following a made three, prompting the referees to call a technical foul.
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