The NBA isn't the only basketball league that has a problem with tanking

The Dragons were accused of throwing the decisive game of their three-game series against the Sharks by committing five consecutive turnovers while leading late, allowing the Sharks to go on a 10-0 run and win, 108-104. The CBA also alleged that the Sharks stopped trying in the second half of the second game, allegedly due to Eric Bledsoe's suspension.

Bledsoe got a four-game ban for fighting, so he wasn't present for the alleged chicanery, even if it was intended to get him on the court. The supposed idea was that Shanghai would lose, in order to get Bledsoe back for the second game in the next series.

Bledsoe denied any involvement and urged people to "stop acting weird."

Bledsoe was one of the Sharks' stars, but Beasley is only a Shanghai Shark on paper. He signed with the Sharks, where he spent the 2014-15 season, last fall, but never played due to injury. Beasley also explained that he wasn't involved in the scandal, and doesn't appear to have been in China for some time. 

The penalties were harsh. Shanghai and Jiangsu were kicked out of the playoffs and in an NCAA-esque move, had their seasons erased. Both clubs were fined five million yuan ($727,135 in U.S. dollars) and their head coaches and general managers were banned from basketball for three-to-five years.

This may mean that Beasley's CBA career is over for good. He won consecutive All-Star Game MVPs in 2014-15 and 2015-16, scoring 59 points off the bench in his first All-Star Game, and 63 points in his second. Beasley was also the league's foreign MVP in 2015-16.

The Chinese Basketball Association scandal comes a week after the NBA fined the Dallas Mavericks a similar amount ($750K) for benching key players in hopes of losing. Slowly but surely, the CBA is catching up with the NBA.