His team had lost sixth straight games and its leading scorer, John Humphrey, who also happens to be the bj-league's top point-getter, was not in the starting lineup for Sunday's game against the Niigata Albirex BB.
That's enough to give any player the blues, but Kohei Aoki of the Tokyo Apache handled the situation impressively.
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