Two Chinese basketball teams, the Shanghai Sharks and Jiangsu Dragons, have both been fined 5 million yuan (US$727,135) each for alleged match-fixing.
Additionally, team officials will be banned for years, the clubs are kicked out of the competition and their results from this season will be erased.
Former Kentucky star Eric Bledsoe is a key player for the Sharks. Bledsoe was serving a four-game suspension, which played a part in the match-fixing allegations:
The Dragons were leading 100-96 with less than two minutes to go in the deciding Game 3 in the opening round of the CBA play-offs in Shanghai last Friday.
But the visitors then committed five consecutive turnovers, leading to a 10-0 run from Sharks, who eventually won 108-104 to clinch the series 2-1 and reach the quarter-finals.
The Sharks, meanwhile, had been accused of “giving up” early in the second half of Game 2 so as to ensure key player and former NBA star Eric Bledsoe, who was serving a four-game suspension, would only miss the first match of the quarter-finals series against the Shenzhen Leopards, after sitting out all three games against the Dragons.
