It's understandable that the Sendai 89ers, whose home region was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, won't continue play this season. But the Tokyo Apache and Saitama Broncos, Sendai's Eastern Conference rivals in the bj-league, appear to have not thought things through or come up with an acceptable Plan B to salvage their season if it's possible to do so.

There are various reactions to the individual decisions by Saitama, which has been one of the league's worst run teams since Day One and by all accounts is operated by a notoriously cheap front office, and Tokyo to pull the plug on their 2010-11 seasons. This decision was officially announced by the league during a Thursday news conference.

Scarcity of electricity at venues has been cited as one factor. The uncertainty about the immediate dangers of nuclear radiation is another. (But wouldn't this have been the proper thing to do: Choose to have a wait-and-see-approach about an epic environmental disaster instead of deciding in the immediate aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear plant's crisis that it was impossible or inappropriate to continue the season?)