It's a big weekend for the bj-league.
Two of the league's top teams — the Osaka Evessa, the two-time defending champions, and the Tokyo Apache — square off for a pair of games on Saturday and Sunday at Ariake Colosseum.
With identical 9-3 records, including one win apiece in their previous two-game showdown in Kansai in mid-November, the teams are set for a marquee matchup in their final games of 2007.