As the most local team in the former CBA, the Xinjiang men's basketball team, which was heavily funded by the club, won the CBA championship in the 2016-17 season. However, due to the club's continuous reduction of investment in the past 2 years, this season's Xinjiang team has been reduced to a fish belly team.
In fact, the Xinjiang team has begun to decline since 2020. This season, in order to reduce the team's salary expenditure, the Xinjiang men's basketball team sent away all the heroes of xirejiang, Kelan Baike and Yu Changdong when they won the championship. The remaining two local stars, Zhou Qi and Abdul Shalamu, it is difficult to bring the team back to its former heights.
Xi Relijiang, who joined the Nanjing Tongxi team, got the top salary contract. As the oldest player in the team, Xi Relijiang also played the role of team leader. Xi Relijiang is not only able to provide a steady stream of firepower output for the team on the outside, but also his excellent defensive ability has also played an extremely important role in the defensive end of the Tongxi team.
Although Xi Relijiang's state is very stable and his performance in the league is also very prominent, the overall strength of the Tongxi team is too poor, and their results have always been at the bottom of the league.
This season, the performance of the Tongxi team is even worse than that of the new CBA team Ningbo Fubang. After 27 rounds of the league, they won only one game and became the vice president of the league completely.
For the arrogant Xi Relijiang, it is completely unacceptable for the Tongxi team to perform so badly in the league. Instead of messing around in the unenterprising Tongxi team, it is better to return to the Xinjiang team and play with his brothers again.
As we all know, today's Xinjiang men's basketball team is not only because of the loss of Zhou Qi, but also a huge vacuum in the team's internal line. In terms of the outside line, there are also no small problems.
Plagued by years of injuries, veteran Zeng Lingxu has lost his courage. Arslan, the son of coach Adi Jiang, does not have a high cap of ability, and it is difficult to bring enough help to the team. Yu Dehao, who was in the year of the fight, was defensively strong and weak, and could not play much role in the offensive end of the Xinjiang team.
Therefore, at this time, the Xinjiang team needs an experienced and effective defender player, and Xi Relijiang is a very suitable candidate. Although xi relijiang still has a 1.5-year contract with tongxi team, it is not impossible to return to Xinjiang.
This season, in order to strengthen the team's interior line, the Xinjiang men's basketball team only used one first and second round draft picks in 2022 to trade their big foreign aid Mortree from the same Xi team. Now, they can completely trade back to The West Relijiang from the Tongxi team at a very small price.
It is also worth mentioning that last season, Mertree and Xi Relijiang worked very well together with the Xi team, and the two were the two players who scored the most points in the team.
If Xi Relijiang can return to Xinjiang, his combination of interior and exterior lines with Abdul Shalamu and Mortree will undoubtedly greatly improve the strength of the Xinjiang team at both offensive and defensive ends. In particular, Xi Re's accurate 3-point shot can effectively improve the Xinjiang team's outside scoring ability.
In the first stage of the league, the performance of the Xinjiang team was quite difficult. After entering the second stage of the league, the Xinjiang team finally regained its form. Recently, they have won 4 consecutive league games, beating league leaders Liaoning, allowing the players in the team to regain a lot of confidence.
At present, the league ranking of Xinjiang has risen to 13th. If they continue to maintain their current good form in the third stage of the league, they are still very promising to make the playoffs. Therefore, the re-trade back to the West Relijiang river is particularly important for the Xinjiang team.
However, at present, the biggest obstacle to Xire's return to Xinjiang is his top salary contract, if he is willing to make some sacrifices for the team, Xire is still very hopeful to return to the Xinjiang men's basketball team in the second window.