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Roberts banned for 6 years
– threatened LABA official to ‘Crush’ association while on suspension
The Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) has imposed a six year ban on the Retrieve Raiders’ National power forward Dwayne ‘Brown Sugar’ Roberts after he failed to appear before its Executive Committee on Saturday January 5, 2013, to answer the charges of threatening an official of the LABA and to ‘Crush’ the association in public view.
Dwayne Roberts
In a release yesterday (Thursday) the Association stated it had increased the previous suspension for Roberts from all basketball related activities, after reviewing the recent incidents which involved Roberts, who had previous ‘brushes’ with the association.
In the letter sent to Roberts it informed “the LABA Executive Committee has decided that you now be suspended for six years, dating back to when you were first given a six months suspension and fined Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000) for throwing the ball at Referee Lloyd Ross causing him injury on November 13, 2012 during a sanctioned BOSAI Minerals Group Open Challenge game between your club Retrieve Raiders and the Kashif and Shanghai Kings.”
It continued: “This decision to impose a longer ban, takes into consideration that you have been a repeated offender in openly berating association officials in public. The fact that the most recent action by you, was in the presence of all to see, including another association executive, has placed this association with no other choice than to impose a more severe penalty for your emotional outburst, and to maintain the initial fine of Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000).
The association trusts that you will use the period dating from November 13, 2012 to November 12, 2018 to reflect on your past as a player who has played at the junior and senior National levels.”
Roberts according to one association official, in fact, had shown no remorse for his actions as he dared the governing body to bar him from attending activities sanctioned by it. This was clear the official said when the former junior national player turned up to watch at least two such basketball games while he is on suspension.
In the letter sent to Roberts and copied to the President of the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation and the Secretary of the Retrieve Raiders Basketball Club for which Roberts is a member, it added “you are further advised that you should not attend any activity sanctioned by the LABA, failing which other measures will have to be taken to enforce our aforementioned penalties.”
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