PBA lightens Santos’ flagrant foul but still slaps P5K fine

Arwind Santos, upon telling his reaction to the Flagrant Foul Penalty 2 to the reporters on Sunday night, thought that the penalty was kinda harsh. (Photo: Arwind Santos/Instagram)

MANILA — Arwind Santos, upon telling his reaction to the Flagrant Foul Penalty 2 to the reporters on Sunday night, thought that the penalty was kinda harsh.

“Ano ba naman yun na, ang tagal ko nang naglalaro, yung gaganunin mo doon sa dibdib habang binibigyan ka ng screen pero binigyan ka ng F2 (What was that, I have been playing for long, what you did in the chest while your’re being screened, but you were given foul ?” said Santos, who was rejected in the process.

After a review of the said call by Commissioner Willie Marcial on Tuesday, Santos may have had a point.

Marcial downgraded the flagrant foul on the San Miguel forward to Penalty 1 as announced by the PBA.

However, Santos was not spared of monetary sanctions as he will pay a fine of PHP5,000.

Fellow Beerman Renaldo Balkman was also slapped with a PHP5,000 fine for his own Flagrant Foul Penalty 1 also during Game 2 of the Commissioner’s Cup Finals against Barangay Ginebra.

Chris Ross, who like Santos was ejected on Sunday night, was fined with PHP2,600 for two technical fouls.

Joe Devance, who got entangled with Ross in the sequence that led to the latter’s second technical foul, got a PHP1,000 fine for his second motion. The same fine was slapped to Kevin Ferrer.