Two referees were suspended on Tuesday by the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) for their failure to call a five-second ball-hogging and backcourt violation during the remaining seconds of the GlobalPort versus Ginebra knockout quarterfinals match on Sunday.

Referee Rommel Gruta was suspended for the rest of the Philippine Cup for failing to call a five-second ball-hogging violation on GlobalPort's Stanley Pringle in the waning seconds of the game.

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