Jacobs: I'm liable to PBA, not BCAP

Ginebra consultant Ron Jacobs, admitting he lost his cool and went out of control at one point during the Ginebra-Red Bull match Sunday, said yesterday he's ready to face sanction from the Philippine Basketball Association but not from the Basketball Coaches Association of the Philippines.

Jacobs was reacting to remarks of BCAP president Chito Narvasa that the controversial American coach would face stiff sanction if reports were true that he misbehaved in the Ginebra-Red Bull tiff opening the PBA Silver Season last Sunday.

"Chito (Narvasa) was right that I misbehaved. But I think the BCAP has nothing to do with it because it's a PBA matter. If I should be sanctioned, it should come from the PBA," he said.

And now that he's working in the PBA as team consultant and no longer head coach, Jacobs stressed, "I'm not taking away someone else's job."

"I understood their (Filipino coaches') feeling. They must have felt I was taking away a job from a Filipino coach in the PBA. But as a consultant, I don't think I'm taking away someone else's job," he said.

Jacobs also said he has no knowledge of an agreement reportedly made between the Ginebra management and the BCAP allowing him to sit on the Ginebra bench as team consultant.

Ginebra team manager Jun Cabalan admitted they had a meeting with the BCAP in the off-season with the La Tondeña franchise advising the local coaches that Jacobs was to act as consultant of the Gin Kings.

The PBA Commissioner's Office, meanwhile, sees nothing wrong with Jacobs working at Ginebra as long as he has a license from the Games and Amusement Board (GAB).