Chinese league bans basketball fan for life, suspends coach.
In this photo taken on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2020, Jiangsu Dragons head coach Memi Becirovic, third from right, reacts to Jiangsu basketball fan Wang Youcheng, second from left, during the Chinese Basketball Association match between Jiangsu Dragons and Liaoning Flying Leopards in Nanjing in eastern China's Jiangsu province.
The Chinese Basketball Association said on social media on Saturday that the fan would be blacklisted from all future CBA games and that coach Memi Becirovic would sit out Sunday's clash with the Nanjing Monkey Kings, following an automatic game suspension on Friday. Earlier, the supporter had directed verbal abuse and insulting gestures at the Flying Leopards and pushed Becirovic's wife twice when she tried to stop him, the CBA said.The league said police had punished the fan, identified only by his surname Wang, but didn't indicate whether he had been fined or detained.
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