Basketball coach courts disaster as his players mutiny over abuse

BEIJING - The coach of China's under-19 basketball team has been bounced after his players reported him to the sport's governing body for alleged physical abuse.

The Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) announced on Monday that Fan Bin had been suspended indefinitely after it received a letter from several players on April 1 calling for their "bad-tempered" coach to be fired.

In the letter, the young players complained that they had suffered from "repeated abuse, insults and even beatings" during training sessions in the three years he was at the helm of the team. Fan took over the job in 2008 after he moved on from coaching the Bayi female team.