FILE–NorthPort Batang Pier participant John Amores throughout a PBA Governors’ Cup recreation. –MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.internet
MANILA, Philippines—Embattled PBA participant John Amores plans to enchantment his case after the Video games and Amusement Board (GAB) revoked his license following his involvement in a capturing incident in Lumban, Laguna three months in the past.
PBA commissioner Willie Marcial bared the event Monday evening.
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“Dumating sa’min ‘yong e mail sa technical group ko, na-receive ko kahapon (Sunday) at three [in the afternoon]. Nakausap ko si Amores, sabi ko, ‘natanggap ko na anong balak mo?’ Balak niyang um-appeal,” stated Marcial on Monday evening.
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“For us within the PBA, we’ll comply as a result of that’s a authorities matter and we’re beneath the supply of GAB in order that’s what we’ll do.”
The 25-year-old Amores is at the moment serving a one-conference ban with out pay within the PBA. Regardless of his violent repute, Amores was nonetheless chosen within the fifth spherical of final yr’s draft by the Batang Pier.
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Marcial added he doesn’t know when Amores would make his enchantment.
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“We simply don’t know precisely when he’s going to make the enchantment however he will likely be making an enchantment,” Marcial stated.
Again in November 2022, Amores, the previous Jose Rizal College ahead, was banned by the NCAA and expelled by JRU after he ran amok and punched gamers from School of St. Benilde throughout a recreation.
“So far as I do know, and I’ll nonetheless make clear this to our authorized crew, he’ll don’t have any pay. We’re beneath ‘no play, no pay,’ guidelines within the PBA,” Marcial stated.
“If I keep in mind appropriately, he nonetheless has a yr [under his contract].”
