Cairns import Michael Carrera has escaped NBL suspension after the club successfully had his charge downgraded.
The Taipans' Venezuelan international was facing two games on the sidelines after he was charged with "unreasonable contact with the face" in his NBL debut against Perth.
But the club's Wednesday submission saw the charge downgraded from intentional to careless, allowing Carrera to avoid suspension and accept a fine with an early guilty plea.
The forward was one of nine NBL players hit with a total of 13 charges across two fiery Sunday games.
The tribunal will sit on Thursday as Brisbane pair Adam Gibson and Tom Jervis contest their sanctions from the fracas in the match against Illawarra.
Cairns' Jarrad Weeks and Nnanna Egwu, as well as Perth's Jean-Pierre Tokoto and Illawarra's Rotnei Clarke and Delvon Johnson all pled guilty to their charges and will cop fines.
An early guilty plea also saw Hawks import Demitrius Conger escape a one-match suspension and face a fine for making unreasonable contact with the face.
The Carrera result was an important one for Cairns, who fed off his energy in his return from injury to end Perth's unbeaten season in a 21-point victory.
The initial charges were widely ridiculed by players and fans on social media on Monday night, with Bullets coach Andrej Lemanis keen to seek clarity from the league given it is promoted as one of the most physical in the world.
"It's an interesting situation, the NBL is doing what they consider to be right," Lemanis said.
"But we're in a league that they keep calling 'hard ball' and they want us to be aggressive and play an aggressive style of basketball and when players go running in I'm not sure what's supposed to happen.
"We just want some clarity on what we're supposed to do if that happens."
Jervis drew the ire of officials after his involvement in a scuffle with several Hawks players following a heavy collision between Illawarra's Mitch Norton and Gibson.
"I felt like what I did was a reaction to something that was done to me," Jervis said.
"If any human got punched in the face for just standing there obviously they're going to have a bit of reaction to it."
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