The "fan" should be banned- not the player. About time the so-called "fans" learned that if they run their mouth they had better be ready to back their words up. I am surprised that this type of incident has not happened before. If this :fan" had of mouthed off in the hotel lobby, I am sure the result would have been the same, and ,just as justified in my opinion.

The best part is the team name- Burger King Whoppers!

Am I the only amazed at the relative calmness of the spectators watching the incident. No standing up. No moving. Is this par for the course over there?

lol.. if you find Burger King Whoppers funny.. there's another team here in the PBA called Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants... try not to laugh..

lol.. if you find Burger King Whoppers funny.. there's another team here in the PBA called Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants... try not to laugh..

lol.. if you find Burger King Whoppers funny.. theres another team here in the PBA called Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants... try not to laugh..

I knwo its not right but it is somewhat comical that fans think they are safe and talk all that sh%t and then when someone does react they sh%t their pants.

I agree with Hitman and Dios N, but to an extent. The players have to have some level of self containment. Unless you or anyone else is being physically threatened you have to just ignore them and move on. Fans will yell and taunt, it's what they do, you can't avoid it. But beating the living daylight out of them won't do anything for you, it will just make it worse. Fans swear at players more than you'd think during games, but they know that by losing self-control: You will be suspended for a long time. You will be booed and yelled at even more. And you just might get beaten up yourself too, if all the fans turn on you. But Hitman and Dios are right. People who are making any kind of disturbance should be physically removed from the stadium, and maybe even suspended from coming back forever.

#2 I don't know much about the PBA having grown up here in the USA (I'm a Filpino by race, but very American by culture). But I guess this is one of the first times this happened. My dad, who was born and raised in the Philippines, told me of incidents between fans in the stands--how it was not unusual for drunken fans in the cheap, nosebleed seats to get into fights with one another or even to start throwing stuff onto the court--but never between a player and a fan.
#3 Those team names are funny, I agree! I knew that all PBA teams are named after companies and brands there, but I had never heard of the Burger King Whoppers until now!

Luckily he was just a small Asian dude and not some big black guy, like in the NBA.
I think I'd rather get jumped by the starting five for any team in that league instead of just Ron Artest.

Well, he kind of deserved being bad mouthed, he tried to end the other player's career by trying to go under. I would have threatened to destroy everything he loves if he does that to Kobe. I would straight up shout "I will murder your family!" if he does that to Kobe. I will make his life miserable if he does that to Kobe. Oh and atleast Ron was thrown a cup on before he went swinging. That's softly gay losing it just because of some f-word thrown in there.

GOOD WORK.. Now that fan will never ever go back and watch that crappy league again... The NBA now has lost another fan.. So that makes their fan base down from 546 to 545 people.. I mean look at the seats man..

@ Walter E.
look at the seats?? uhh.. so empty? it's a 2pm game and 1st of 3 games during that day... PBA games at Araneta Coliseum is usually filled up at the last games specially when the top teams face each other... it's actually BIGGER than other NBA arenas, you know.. It's even louder when rival colleges play each other for college games... 21K seats, you know...

Wow, that was a dirty foul for sure. And those punches were pretty intense for a basketball player. Gotta have control. That's not the fan's fault.

His inner-Ron Artest LOL

Sikat na naman yung pinoy!!! hahaha
mabuhay kayo... saludo kami sa inyo

I'm a FILIPINO and I was watching the game on tv when it happened. First off to bobcatsD the seats in the said arena are not cheap nose bleed seats. A lot of foreign artist performed in that arena from the likes of akon, lady gaga and we can go on etc. You said your a filipino but you probably have not seen the place yet so don't judge it. Comments like these make the our coutry look and sound bad. Going back to the palyer the commsioner issued this statement "PBA commissioner Renauld "Sonny" Barrios said, “As we pointed out to you, even granting that said fan was foul-mouthed and verbally abusive as confirmed by reports to us, there is a ‘line’ that a PBA player cannot and should not cross: to physically harm a fan." The player deserved it why? They were playing against a young national team and that guy crossed another player under eventually the player fell back first, another player JV CASIO was driving for a layup and that guy hit him in the face which clearly shows that it was not the ball he was after. Wynne Arbolde is known for his dirty plays. If you look at the picture he looks small and he plays the guard position but actually he is very big and bulky. He deserves it because there is still a thin line that players should not cross. Dude I can assure you that those seats are not cheap. You better stand up and represent homie. For the fan who got punched he knew what was coming and he was partly wrong. Actually both of them was wrong. As for arboleda he is also filthy rich man why? He married the daughter of Mr. Bert Lina the guy who purchased the franchise for FEDEX in the philippines.

I'm a FILIPINO and I was watching the game on tv when it happened. First off to bobcatsD the seats in the said arena are not cheap nose bleed seats. A lot of foreign artist performed in that arena from the likes of akon, lady gaga and we can go on etc. You said your a filipino but you probably have not seen the place yet so don't judge it. Comments like these make the our coutry look and sound bad. Going back to the palyer the commsioner issued this statement "PBA commissioner Renauld "Sonny" Barrios said, “As we pointed out to you, even granting that said fan was foul-mouthed and verbally abusive as confirmed by reports to us, there is a ‘line’ that a PBA player cannot and should not cross: to physically harm a fan." The player deserved it why? They were playing against a young national team and that guy crossed another player under eventually the player fell back first, another player JV CASIO was driving for a layup and that guy hit him in the face which clearly shows that it was not the ball he was after. Wynne Arbolde is known for his dirty plays. If you look at the picture he looks small and he plays the guard position but actually he is very big and bulky. He deserves it because there is still a thin line that players should not cross. Dude I can assure you that those seats are not cheap. You better stand up and represent homie. For the fan who got punched he knew what was coming and he was partly wrong. Actually both of them was wrong. As for arboleda he is also filthy rich man why? He married the daughter of Mr. Bert Lina the guy who purchased the franchise for FEDEX in the philippines.

I'm a FILIPINO and I was watching the game on tv when it happened. First off to bobcatsD the seats in the said arena are not cheap nose bleed seats. A lot of foreign artist performed in that arena from the likes of akon, lady gaga and we can go on etc. You said your a filipino but you probably have not seen the place yet so don't judge it. Comments like these make the our coutry look and sound bad. Going back to the palyer the commsioner issued this statement "PBA commissioner Renauld "Sonny" Barrios said, “As we pointed out to you, even granting that said fan was foul-mouthed and verbally abusive as confirmed by reports to us, there is a ‘line’ that a PBA player cannot and should not cross: to physically harm a fan." The player deserved it why? They were playing against a young national team and that guy crossed another player under eventually the player fell back first, another player JV CASIO was driving for a layup and that guy hit him in the face which clearly shows that it was not the ball he was after. Wynne Arbolde is known for his dirty plays. If you look at the picture he looks small and he plays the guard position but actually he is very big and bulky. He deserves it because there is still a thin line that players should not cross. Dude I can assure you that those seats are not cheap. You better stand up and represent homie. For the fan who got punched he knew what was coming and he was partly wrong. Actually both of them was wrong. As for arboleda he is also filthy rich man why? He married the daughter of Mr. Bert Lina the guy who purchased the franchise for FEDEX in the philippines.

hey bling, don't be so defensive. bobcatsD never maligned the Filipinos. He was just recounting the experiences of his dad. I'm a Filipino, proud to be one, and from QC in fact. I hate it when Filipinos are bashed, but I'm sorry, I have to tell you off because you're too sensitive. BobcatsD never insulted us, and I was born during those times of fist fighting in the stands along the bleachers, so he's saying it like it is. We are a basketball culture, and the fans are as passionate as the next guy. Also, he never said the seats of the fan who got beat up by Arboleda was seated in cheap seats (Alain Katigbak by the way is my batch in Ateneo, so I'm as Filipino as you are). So yeah bling, though we are of the same blood, and I'm as patriotic as hell, your comments against bobcatsD is founded on thin air. Please read and understand what you comment on before you go ahead and bad mouth someone. Guys like you make the Filipino people look like complete idiots. I hope I don't get to talk to you personally, or I just might punch you in the mouth. Misplaced patriotism is not a virtue. (You ever hear of Ugly Americans? You're the Filipino equivalent).

#19-21 Get a hold of yourself, man. I make the place look bad because I've never been to Araneta? I've been to the Philippines and could probably live there more than most American-born Filipinos (I happen to speak the native tongue fluently). And I'm not a "homie" because I refuse to be associated with such terms that Filipinos like you use because you think you're black.
The "cheap" seats I was referring to were back in the old days, man. Read my comment thoroughly. I know they're probably no longer cheap seats nowadays, but back in the 1960s and 1970s, my dad was able to watch games live at Araneta once in a blue moon and only because of those cheap seats. Again, that was back 30-40 years ago. Read my post thoroughly before you start making judgments about others.
And if anything, YOU--not I--make our country look bad with your average-at-best command of the English language, trying to sound intellectual and telling me to "stand up and represent homie." I don't need to go about being Filipino your ghettofied way, my friend. I'm happy being an American-born one who isn't so delusional like #18 who clearly thinks Filipinos rule the world.
Man, for once I actually had nice things to say about Filipinos, recounting fond memories of stories my dad told. Now, you had to ruin it by your judgmental comments. Get off the marijuana, BLING 420, and realize that we Filipinos don't own or rule the world. You stand up and represent, "homie".

OK, so in fairness to you BLING 420, I didn't mention that my dad recounted his days of watching PBA in the 1970s (I did tell Skeets though via Twitter). But still, any of you Philippine-born Filipinos or Philippine-Pride Filipinos who want to take shots at me, go ahead. It's people like you who build walls around your Little Manila cliques and exclude normal people like me anyway.
Again I say, I had one or two nice things to say about the Philippines, only to be misunderstood as "one of those" Filipino-Americans who's totally out of touch with his Filipino heritage. I'm probably more in touch with our heritage than a majority of Philippine-born kids who move to the USA and totally abandon their Filipino heritage in favor of western black ghetto culture.
Think before you comment. Education is priceless. The more you know.

#22 rabo = First-Class Filipino!
Thank you, sir. Isn't funny that, as you said, we are a "basketball culture" and stuff like this should unite us by way of common ground? And yet, there are those like BLING 420 who continually contribute to the substantiated observation that Filipinos, by and large, are a people with a "crab mentality."
Again, thank you. And my final opinion on the Arboleda situation? I don't blame him for wanting to beat the crap out of the fan, but the suspension is just fair. And that fan had better be suspended like John Green (Pistons idiot who started the Malice @ the Palace), or else there is no justice in this world. OK, not really, but it would be nice to hear that that guy can never see another game at Araneta.

tsk2... pilipino talaga. =))))))))))))))