games five, six and seven of the 2017 Governors' Cup finals between Barangay Ginebra San Miguel and the Meralco Bolts were all held at the Philippine Arena.

He handed an indefinite ban on SPIN.ph beat reporter Snow Badua after the latter wrote an article and posted Twitter tweets accusing Barangay Ginebra San Miguel team governor and close friend Alfrancis Chua for having an extramarital affair with model Abby Poblador.

Your incessant attacks on Twitter on Mr. Alfrancis Chua, team governor of Ginebra San Miguel, has caused distress, embarrassment and disharmony with his family”.

[16] Such comments he gave to Dubai-based Gulf News angered Mahindra team consultant Joe Lipa, who defended Pacquiao and accused Narvasa's remarks as degrading and uncalled for.

[18] On December 5, 2015, Ginebra team governor Alfrancis Chua was caught vaping inside the arena on national television, which prompted the Department of Health and other anti-smoking advocates to talk to Commissioner Narvasa regarding his unhealthy and unethical actions.

[20] On December 29, 2015, he handed down bans on both referees Edward Aquino and Rommel Gruta for the rest of the PBA Philippine Cup conference, even when the two officials admitted lapse on officiating - a non-call on a supposed five-second violation and a stepping infraction on GlobalPort guard Stanley Pringle in the final play of an 84–83 overtime win over Ginebra two days before.

[25] The penalty was downgraded into a season ban and P150,000 after Johnson voluntarily appeared on February 17 before Commissioner Narvasa and personally apologized for the infraction during the TNT-Meralco game.

In defense of approving the controversial Kia-San Miguel trade, Narvasa cited that TNT KaTropa also tried to make a deal with Kia's first round pick.

[34] TNT management then released a statement hours after the 2017 draft concluded, blasting Narvasa for being biased and questioned his credibility as the league's commissioner.

[35][36] On November 2, 2017, seven members of the PBA Board of Governors passed a resolution stating that they will no longer support or endorse the renewal of Narvasa's tenure as commissioner due to "loss of confidence".

Representatives from Alaska, Blackwater, Meralco, NLEX, Rain or Shine, Phoenix and TNT attended a special board meeting on November 2 that passed this resolution.

[41] In response, the seven teams that met on November 2, issued a statement the following day to clarify that they did not move to remove Narvasa as the commissioner, but they only stated that they would not support a renewal of his tenure, which expired at the end of the 2016–17 season.

The statement also said that Narvasa is clearly aware that his term renewal is on a yearly basis as indicated to the Meeting Minutes of the Board and upon assuming the COO (commissioner) post in 2015.

After his time as the Commissioner of the PBA, Narvasa returned to his executive duties as the president and CEO of AYN Resource Management Group.

In August 2018, he was appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte as part of the board of directors of United Coconut Planters Bank (UCPB).