The fourth largest professional league of Chinese basketball outside the CBA, WCBA, and NBL has quietly opened player registration in the CBA offseason, and the 2022 season of the Chinese men's three-person basketball league is about to officially arrive, and in some places that have been forgotten outside the CBA territory, the fire of basketball is rekindling.
The first batch of 24 teams were announced, including the Beijing Forbidden Warriors, Foshan Nanhai Dragon Lions, Qingdao Guoxin Eagles, Shenzhen Century Qihang and other CBA clubs, as well as Duan Jiangpeng, former Beijing Shougang player Duan Jiangpeng of Beijing Zhongtian Qilin, former Guangdong player Gao Shangshang and former Liaoning player Wei Meng of Changzhou Youmai, Former Tongxi player He Jingjia of Jiangsu Yangzijiang and former Fujian player Liu Huanyu, former Zhejiang Pulai former North Control player Li Rui, dalian Xiongshi former Liaoning player Sun Kaiqi and so on.
In provinces without CBA teams, some teams are finally bringing new professional basketball with them.
In the 21-22 season, among the domestic players announced by the CBA, Heilongjiang ranked 6th in the league with 26 active players, such as Guangdong Zhao Rui, Liaoning Cong Mingchen, Beijing Zeng Fanbo, Zhejiang Liu Zeyi, Guangzhou Zheng Zhun, Guangsha twins Zhao Jiaren and Zhao Jiayi brothers are representatives. Among the three northeastern provinces, only Heilongjiang does not have a CBA team, and neither does Henan and Hebei, which have more players than the number of players.
From the Daqing Shenbu men's basketball team to the Daqing oilfield men's basketball team, and then to the later Heilongjiang Fengshen men's basketball team, Heilongjiang once played in the NBL for a long time, but instead failed to advance into the CBA, it did not advance or retreat, and finally even the NBL team was not saved. The predecessor of the Heilongjiang Northern Brave, who was established this time, is actually Harbin Shenglong Industry in last season's Super Third League, Yang Dapeng, Zhao Mingyao, Li Zeqing and other people are all elders, and The former Guangdong general Gao Shang has played in the team before.
This team, called Weilang Sports earlier, was once the national runner-up of the 3X3 Golden League in 2017, and it was Wan Shengwei and Wang Shaojie who were still playing at Peking University in the semi-finals that year. At present, the most famous in the squad should be Yang Dapeng, he was a player of the new century men's basketball youth team, and Luo Hanchen, Sun Zhe and other people are teammates, once selected for the U18 national youth, career has played for Changsha Parkin, Shaanxi Xinda, Lhasa Pure Land and other teams, and Zhao Rui has been a teammate.
Even more legendary than his experience is veteran Wang Zhenyu, an alumnus of Liu Xiaoyu in Changchun 11, who worked as a roommate in Aoshen and Sun Yue, played for Beijing Enterprises since the time of Chongqing Aolong, and played NBL in Hunan Jinjian Rice Industry last season. Among the other players, Li Zeqing is from Cuba's Jilin University, who played for the NBL Beijing Oriental Bucks, veteran Zhao Mingyao played for three baskets for many years, and a former Harbin Institute of Technology player.
Since the dragon, Chongqing has been outside the CBA territory.
In the three baskets, Chongqing Handong appeared with young players, which is one of the youngest teams in the three baskets, the oldest being born in 1997 before the age of 25, and the youngest born in December 2001, not yet 21 years old. In recent years, Handong Sports has continued to heat up Chongqing basketball, and the "Belt and Road" China-Europe Basketball Champions Cup led by Abdul Salam to lead Xinjiang in 2019, as well as many basketball events in Shancheng in recent years, are also dominated by it.
The number one star of Handong is actually Zhang Zongrui, who won the championship with Liaoning in 2018, he was selected for the U17 national youth team with Zhao Yanhao and Hu Jinqiu in the class of 97, joined the NBL's Chongqing team last season, and turned to three-person basketball this year. The youngest Sha Yuxin is a high-ended player from Chushui Experimental Middle School in Xinghua City, Jiangsu Province, who once appeared on a variety show and won the famous scene of "Why let me get out" to let Guo Allen "roll".
The basketball atmosphere in Shancheng has always been good, and the Guangzhou free agents who received the disbandment that year had a hard time building the CBA team of Chongqing Aolong, but finally let it move to Beijing in just one year, which was a big loss for the city. Now that it's been almost a decade, basketball enthusiasm is still there, and perhaps the three-on-three intense style of play is more suitable for the hot and mellow mountain city.
In this batch of three basketball teams, the vast majority of players are registered for 1 year, but there are some exceptions, Chongqing has 3 players registered for 4 years, and the most distinctive is the Wuhan team, all 6 players have a registration period of 5 years. The last time Hubei had a CBA team was more than 20 years ago, hubei players like Gu Quan played for Shenzhen, and the National Games represented Hubei.
After the dissolution of the Meerya men's basketball team in 2000, Hubei's professional basketball journey was very tortuous.
In 2014, Hubei Marco Polo was ambitious and hoped to impact the CBA, but he did not admit that it was a short and brilliant fireworks, many years later, the Wuhan Contemporary Men's Basketball Team was established, and now it is in the NBL, but it is still far from the CBA. In this team in Wuhan, 5 of the 6 were born after 2002, and the only "veteran" Chen Gong was born in 1996.
The name Chen Gong may not be known to many CBA fans, but it should definitely be remembered in the history of Chinese three-person basketball, and at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, Chen Gong, who was only 22 years old at the time, was the team that raised the gold medal with Dongguan Mayong. Before entering Jakarta, he had won a bronze medal in the National Games three-on-three the previous year, and then signed a contract with Wuhan Contemporary to prepare for the professional entry.
However, Chen Gong finally found a more suitable battlefield for himself, last season's Super Third League, Chen Yongli was one of the champions of Shanghai Shangshi Longchuang, and now he returns to Wuhan and will carry the banner of Hubei three-person basketball with a veteran posture of hundreds of battles. Standing next to him are the young players who won the first basketball gold for Hubei, last year's National Games U19 three-person basketball men's group, young players Hu Xiaolong and Lu Pengcheng made great contributions, and Cao Wenjun and Zhang Haozhe were also players cultivated by Hubei itself.
This will also be another milestone in the history of Hubei basketball, there have been several failed attempts to return to the CBA, Hubei is still trying to create a systematic basketball ecology, ready for the final stage to stand on a broader stage. Although the CBA market is far from being comparable to the NBA, it is indeed the peak of Chinese basketball, and even if the NBL is also known as a professional league, its volume and exposure are obviously not the same.
The difference between the NBL and the CBA is perhaps the most obvious in Guangxi and Anhui provinces.
In the past few years, the several clubs that have carved up the NBL championship are Shaanxi Xinda, Guangxi Weizhuang and Anhui Wenyi, although they are all racing in the NBL, but in the minds of most Chinese fans, it may not be as big as the traffic effect brought about by Zhou Qi's hard work in the Australian NBL this season. This time the three-person basketball league, Guangxi Career, Anhui Yuntu Shen musk, Anhui Lizhi basket ranked among them.
Lizhi Basket represented Anhui in the U19 group competition of the three-person men's basketball team at the National Games last year, sun Jingyao, Zhang Shiqi and Liu Zixiang were in the team at that time, but unfortunately, the young people finally failed to break into the top eight and did not qualify for the final circle. This team is probably the most familiar to fans of Dai Qiaodan, born in 2001, not only his name is domineering, in the 2020 U19 National Youth Basketball League, he played for Anhui Wenyi, and once scored 31 points in a single game to beat the Jilin Siberian Tigers.
Dai Qiaodan also played against the North Control Youth Team after that, competing with Liao Sanning, both of whom scored 32 points, but unfortunately Wen Yi lost by 5 points. The oldest of the team is Tao Yongmeng, who was born in 1994 from Cuba's Hefei Normal College, and interestingly, when the company was founded, he was one of the investors, which may be a good story of trying to link love with career.
The name of Anhui Yuntu Shen musk is very strange, but in fact, they are not newcomers in the three-person basketball world, this team is the past few years of Daoyi Sports (sometimes called Daoyi Investment), Ding Xuchen, Zhao Siyu and others have led the team to win the 2021 3X3 Golden League Beijing Championship.
This time, after changing the name to Yuntu Shen musk, the team joined Ma Xuepeng of Tsinghua University. Ma Xuepeng from Urumqi previously helped Tsinghua successfully defend its title in CUBA, and last year, together with Tsinghua teammate Zou Yang and others, he represented Beijing in the three-person men's basketball adult group of the National Games, reached the final round, and finally won the 5th place. Last season, Ma Xuepeng played in the Super Third League for Guangxi Lufeng.
Guangxi Lufeng has disappeared this season and has been replaced by a Guangxi career.
He has been in Macau before his career and participated in the Super Third League last season, including Lu Jiaxing (CUBA Harbin Institute of Technology), Sun Weixin (Hebei University of Engineering), Yang Ziyu (Jilin University), Liu Jinbang (formerly Macau Black Bear) and others. The two new players are also from CUBA, Gao Yufeng studied at Guangdong University of Technology and played well, Xiang Tenghua played for Ningbo University, and blocked Peking University with Zhang Ning and others.
There were two Macau teams in the Super League last year, but this year unfortunately they are not seen. Guangxi Weizhuang is the hegemon of the NBL, and Guangxi has also produced players such as Zhu Fangyu, Liao Sanning, Xu Zhonghao, etc., but it seems that it has never been close to playing in the CBA. As the province with the hottest basketball atmosphere, it is still a little regrettable.
To ask for it is not to be confused, to have it but to lose it is to be painful. Yunnan once had the Red River men's basketball team, but in just a few years it disappeared due to various circumstances, if it were not for the "Yunnan Glider" Yi Jinhong won the CBA dunk contest championship in the past two years, many people seem to have forgotten that there are still people playing basketball in Yunnan.
Yunnan my also called Yunnan Pilot Elephant, it is not easy to appear on the professional league of Chinese basketball, Yunnan is very cherished, Pilot Elephant introduced Li Zhi, Liu Yiming, Zhao Xuelun, Xu Zhichao, Xi'an Sports Institute Captain Zhou Jiahao, Yunnan University scoring Wang Yihan, early registration of social media, but also publicly said that it will prepare to establish a complete youth echelon as soon as possible.
Last season, the Super Triple League performed brilliantly as a transition season for the three-man men's basketball professional league, with 21 teams moving from Baoding, Hebei to Macau, and finally Guangdong Chimelong, which was composed of the gold medal team of the Jakarta Asian Games, which made great contributions to the Chinese three-person men's basketball team, won the championship. The arrival of the three-person professional league will mend the missing space between China's professional league and amateur basketball, and the future is always worth looking forward to.
Shenzhou is vast, the CBA is still trying to radiate to more places, in the corner beyond the center of the territory, there are many people who always believe and chase the light of basketball.