LABA hands down suspensions and fines to players

Jan 04, 2013 Sports

Roberts banned for six months, fined $15,000 for throwing ball at referee

The Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) belatedly handed out gifts after the Christmas holidays, but never-the-less has ended the season in a giving mood.
The sharing mood got started when the LABA suspended national centre/ forward Dwayne ‘Brown Sugar’ Roberts for six months, and also a one year bond to keep the peace, after he would have served that penalty.

Dwayne Roberts

Roberts, who has represented Guyana at both the junior and senior levels, was slapped with this suspension by the LABA’s Technical Commission for throwing the basketball at Referee Lloyd Ross with such force that Mr. Ross was hit in the head and suffered an injury while officiating in the 2012 BOSAI Minerals Group Open Challenge basketball competition game between Retrieve Raiders and the Kashif and Shanghai Kings at the Mackenzie Sports Club hard court in November last year.
The suspension is from the day of the incident on 13th November, 2012 and to conclude on 13th May, 2013.
Roberts is also fined Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000) and in addition, he is suspended from attending all basketball related activities sanctioned by this Association.
And national forward Dwayne ‘Brown Sugar’ Roberts will now appear in front of the LABA Executive Committee tomorrow (Saturday) morning at 10:00hrs to answer the charges made out against him where he is reported to have threatened an official of the LABA and ‘crush’ the LABA, at the semifinals of the Malta Supreme basketball championship which will be concluded today with the final.
It was decided that the Retrieve Raiders and Block 22 Flames basketball clubs will be fined Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000) for not attending the march past of the clubs at the Malta Supreme basketball championship opening.
Two players have been given five game suspensions for fighting during the preliminary round matches in the Malta Supreme basketball tournament between Amelia’s Ward Jets and Half Mile Bulls. The players are Lawrence DaCosta of Jets and Sean Easton of Half Mile Bulls and they are also fined $10,000 for that fracas.
And Victory Valley Royals power forward Alwyn ‘Shaq’ Wilson has been slapped with a $10,000 fine and three match suspension for punching national centre Shane Webster of the Jets during their club game in the preliminary round of the championship.