Sentenced to pay 750,000 dollars last week for letting slip a meeting against the Bulls, Mark Cuban found stronger than him in terms of “cheating” … This Monday, the South China Morning Post reports that the Chinese Basketball League (CBA) has decided to exclude two teams from the playoffs after two fixed matches, and to ban their leaders for several years, as well as to erase their results for the season. These are Shanghai Sharks and Jiangsu Dragons, opponents in the first round of the playoffs.
In the decisive Game 3, the Dragons, who led 100-96, then swung the end of the match with five loose balls to allow the Sharks to sign a 10-0 to win and qualify for the next round. But the federation also felt that these same Sharks had voluntarily lost Game 2 so that Eric Bledsoe, suspended for four matches, only missed the first match of the quarter-final series against the Shenzhen Leopards.
As a result, Bledsoe will no longer play a single match, like his teammate Michael Beasley, and the Shenzen Leopards have already qualified for the semi-finals. The Sharks, like the Dragons, will each have to pay a fine of 5 million yuan, or about 730,000 dollars. That’s a little less than the Mavericks’ fine…
