So a Chinese club, Beijing Ducks signed a player named Orien Greene, who played in the NBA for a few games earlier this year. Beijing spent $45k on his NBA D-league team for his release. Now that he's finally in China, the CBA told the club he can't play. Why? Because FIBA says so, and CBA is affiliated with FIBA.
A Google search reveals that he tampered with a urine test (used another player's urine) in the Netherlands and FIBA banned him for two years. But the ban should have been lifted March 12, 2011 which has already passed. So what's going on?
According to FIBA, because he played in the NBA/NBA D-league in the past 2 years he violated the FIBA ban. So the 2-year ban has been prolonged indefinitely at the discretion of FIBA. But this seems ridiculous because if FIBA has no control over NBA then why does it recognize NBA as a legitimate league? If NBA is not legit then Greene did not violate anything, right?
Anyway, Beijing looks like the dumbest team in the world for spending that much money getting nothing in return.
A Google search reveals that he tampered with a urine test (used another player's urine) in the Netherlands and FIBA banned him for two years. But the ban should have been lifted March 12, 2011 which has already passed. So what's going on?
According to FIBA, because he played in the NBA/NBA D-league in the past 2 years he violated the FIBA ban. So the 2-year ban has been prolonged indefinitely at the discretion of FIBA. But this seems ridiculous because if FIBA has no control over NBA then why does it recognize NBA as a legitimate league? If NBA is not legit then Greene did not violate anything, right?
Anyway, Beijing looks like the dumbest team in the world for spending that much money getting nothing in return.
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