No matter where your team is seeded, if you lose, you go home -- that's how the bj-league playoffs go.
John Humphrey won the Scoring Title in the bj-league's first season, averaging 23.2 points per game for the Tokyo Apache.
The 2006 bj-league postseason will tip off on Saturday at Tokyo's Ariake Colosseum. The final will be held the following day there, and the winner will be the inaugural champion of Japan's first professional basketball league.
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