Osaka's Lynn Washington and Kyoto's Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, two of the league's marquee players, served one-game suspensions last Sunday for separate incidents. Talk about a double dose of bad publicity for the bj-league.
Washington took his frustrations out on a pair of chairs and a white board in the Evessa locker room after his team's loss to the Saitama Broncos last Saturday in Kasukabe, Saitama Prefecture.
Abdul-Rauf was penalized for a punching foul against Shiga's Takamichi Fujiwara in Saturday's game.