On June 22, Beijing time, the hyped up pterodactyl team reinforcements finally fell to the dust, and the Hong Kong Bay Area Pterodactyl Club announced some player lists. On the fiery and festive promotional poster, there are a total of 10 players, of which 5 players are from the CBA League, the most well-known is Liu Chuanxing, who is also arranged in the C position of the poster, holding a basketball in his hand.
The player who first came out to join the Pterodactyls was Liu Chuanxing, and the reason for the rapid attention was mainly the large contract of tens of millions. Last season, Liu Chuanxing left Qingdao and played in the NBL League for 1 season, but he did not get too many opportunities to play, and after the contract ended, Liu Chuanxing, who should have returned to the CBA team, was cut off by the Bay Area Wing Dragons.
When Liu Chuanxing was in Qingdao, he had become the starting center, averaging 21 minutes per game, with a quasi-double-double of 9.7 points and 8.3 rebounds, and was also selected for the Chinese men's basketball national team. Although there is still a big gap compared to centers such as Wang Zhelin and Shen Zijie, he still has a certain strength with obvious height advantages.
Among the other 4 players, Qiao Wenhan and Si Kun played for Shandong last season, the strength and team status of these two are different, Qiao Wenhan is able to play the starting line, in the Shandong team's season, played 35 games, 4 starts, can get 5.8 points data.
Si Kun's situation is much worse, he only played 1 game last season, and he is already in a situation where he can't play the ball. After the Shandong team changed the head coach, it was also making lineup adjustments, and the 2 people whose contracts expired were not renewed, leaving the Shandong team and leaving the CBA was also a good thing.
Zheng Qilong is from Jiangsu team, the son of Chinese men's basketball star Zheng Wu, who passed the draft in 2020 and was selected by Jiangsu team with the 5th pick, just playing 2 seasons of CBA. Last season, Zheng Qilong played 35 games, started 8 games, averaged 16 minutes of playing time per game, and had 3.9 points and 2.4 rebounds. The rookie contract expired, jiangsu team did not renew Zheng Qilong, and there are many young players in the team's youth training.
Song Jianhua is the only one on the CBA free agent list, has not played the CBA for two years, after being purged by the Tongxi team, played a season in the domestic NBL league, played for the Shaanxi men's basketball team, and averaged 13.6 points per game.
Among these 5 players, in addition to Liu Chuanxing, the other 4 have in common that they have difficulty getting a contract in the CBA, are on the verge of not being able to play, or have begun to play in low-level leagues. Now to be able to join the Pterodactyls, not only can there be ball play, but most importantly, there are big contracts to take.
Referring to Liu Chuanxing's 2-year contract of tens of millions, the annual salary of several other players is definitely higher than in the CBA, and high salary is the main means for the Pterodactyls to attract reinforcements. In the past few seasons, the CBA has been reforming, the efficiency is not good, most teams are in a state of loss, the team's salary cap, player contract amount has also been set up, the maximum salary from 8 million, down to 6 million. It turned out that the tens of millions of contracts like Yi Jianlian, Zhou Qi, and Li Gen had become history.
Yao Ming's series of reforms want to make the CBA more commercial, but from the current effect, the salary limit regulations have largely protected the interests of the club, and the interests of players cannot be guaranteed. Zhou Qi, who can't play now, is a good example, if other low-level leagues also follow the example of the Pterodactyls and dig people with high salaries, then there will be fewer and fewer good players in the CBA.