{"id":423074,"date":"2023-04-17T17:57:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T17:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=423074"},"modified":"2023-04-17T17:57:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T17:57:31","slug":"chinese-basketball-association-suspends-shanghai-sharks-jiangsu-dragons-for-match-fixing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/chinese-basketball-association-suspends-shanghai-sharks-jiangsu-dragons-for-match-fixing\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Basketball Association Suspends Shanghai Sharks &#038; Jiangsu Dragons For Match Fixing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jiangsu Dragons and Shanghai Sharks received the toughest penalty in league history from the Chinese Basketball Association on Monday as a result of the two clubs&#8217; unsportsmanlike behaviour.<\/p>\n<h2>Chinese Basketball Association Suspends Shanghai Sharks &amp; Jiangsu Dragons For Match Fixing<\/h2>\n<p>Following a contentious best-of-three playoff series between the two teams last week, the CBA announced on Monday that both clubs have been banned from the current 2022\u201323 CBA season, would each be fined 5 million yuan ($727,000), and their league standings have been cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>Li Chunjiang, the head coach of the Sharks and a former mentor of the 11-time league champion Guangdong Southern Tigers, and Li Nan, the head coach of Jiangsu and a former coach of the Chinese national basketball team, will each be prohibited from registering as a coach for five and three years, respectively, starting on Monday, the association announced.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Eric Bledsoe\u2019s Shanghai Sharks and the Jiangsu Dragons have been disqualified from the playoffs in China and fined 5M yuan for alleged match-fixing during the playoffs<\/p>\n<p>Bledsoe was serving a suspension during the games in question<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SCMPNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SCMPNews<\/a> Mike Chan) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/D6HigrsjSK\">pic.twitter.com\/D6HigrsjSK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1647995691837390849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The general managers of Jiangsu and Shanghai, Shi Linjie and Jiang Yusheng, will be barred from working in any basketball-related positions for five and three years, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The severe punishment was handed following a league inquiry of the playoff series, which revealed that both sides had been &#8220;intentionally engaging in throw games.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In the CBA playoffs play-in tournament, Shanghai Sharks defeated Jiangsu Dragons 108:104 to win a playoffs berth (aggregate 2\uff1a1). Shanghai mounted a comeback to go from trailing by 4 pts within few secs. It appears Jiangsu threw the game &#8211; CBA is investigating it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h358tcfZXz\">pic.twitter.com\/h358tcfZXz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; China Sports Vision 2050 (@CSV2050) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CSV2050\/status\/1646924456399609856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Shanghai unexpectedly rested the majority of its starters and foreign players in the pivotal Game 2, losing to Jiangsu 97-90 on April 11 before the contentious Game 3, which has sparked raging anger from fans and criticism from the media for what appear to be match-fixing plays during the game&#8217;s final stretch.<\/p>\n<p>With 96 seconds left in the fourth quarter with a 100-96 lead, Jiangsu players committed five consecutive turnovers, allowing the Sharks to score 10 straight baskets without taking a timeout to modify their defensive strategy. While observing the odd performances of Jiangsu players, head coach Li and general manager Shi both appeared imposed on the bench.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Chinese Basketball Association on Monday announced that the Shanghai Sharks and the Jiangsu Dragons are disqualified from the playoffs for &quot;fixing&quot; games. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yhBe1VptMU\">https:\/\/t.co\/yhBe1VptMU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Complex Sports (@ComplexSports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ComplexSports\/status\/1648012182951436306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>President of the Chinese Basketball Association and NBA Hall of Famer Yao Ming described the news as &#8220;quite saddening&#8221; during a news conference on Monday. Before being selected first overall by the Houston Rockets in 2002, Ming spent seven seasons with the Sharks.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Shanghai Sharks and the Jiangsu Dragons in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) have both been thrown out of the ongoing playoffs for match-fixing. More details below \ud83d\udc47 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FbTMLs7nEb\">pic.twitter.com\/FbTMLs7nEb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mark Dreyer (@DreyerChina) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DreyerChina\/status\/1647851889403531270?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We conducted a very prudent investigation to help us make the decision based on precise matters,&#8221; Ming said, per ChinaDaily.com. &#8220;We believe that everybody feels quite distressed about this.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For sports games, the most important thing is reputation, rather than ability. Credit is what everybody, every team, the league, and the association is based on. 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Chinese Basketball Association Suspends Shanghai Sharks &amp; Jiangsu Dragons For Match Fixing Following a contentious best-of-three playoff series between the two teams last week, the CBA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":423075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7180,7182,7183,7181],"class_list":["post-423074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-shanghai-sharks-jiangsu-dragons","tag-shanghai-sharks-jiangsu-dragons-match-fixing","tag-shanghai-sharks-jiangsu-dragons-news","tag-shanghai-sharks-jiangsu-dragons-suspended"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}