In the past, the goal of Chinese players chasing their dreams has always been to enter the NBA, otherwise they will basically stay in the country to play, but since 2021, there have been new changes, Zhou Qi, Liu Chuanxing and their old clubs have not been able to reach an agreement on the issue of contract renewal, and then chose to go to the Australian NBL, in addition to the league level is not low, the income is also more objective. Fast forward to 2022, the CBA player loss is the momentum of the intensification, the sudden emergence of the East Asian Premier League began a wide range of poaching.
On August 1, the East Asian Premier League's Bay Area Wing Dragons announced a 13-man roster, of which 7 players had played in the CBA, including Liu Chuanxing, Qiao Wenhan, Song Jianhua, Si Kun, Zheng Qilong, Zhu Songwei, Nicholson, and Zhang Zhiyuan was a player trained by Zhejiang Chouzhou Bank, but did not enter the first team.
Some of these people belong to CBA fringe figures, such as Song Jianhua, who was originally the captain of Tongxi, but did not get a contract extension during Huo Nan's purge in 2020, after which he played in the NBL league. Song Jianhua is 31 years old this year, is a small forward with a height of 199cm, and his competitive state was originally good, and he has not yet retired from the army.
Qiao Wenhan and Si Kun played in the Shandong men's basketball team last season, of which Qiao Wenhan has a good ability to hold the ball and singles, averaging 5.8 points, 1.6 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game this season, and the efficiency of each substitute appearance is good. But after all, it is a bench player, and the age is not small, Qiao Wenhan and Si Kun first consider or make money to support their families, the Bay Area Pterodactyl can pay a high price of course will not refuse.
It is a pity that there are 3 young players who left the CBA this time, they are in the career upswing period, they should have stayed in the country to improve themselves, but now they are still tempted by money. Born in 1999, Liu Chuanxing is 222cm tall, although the movement speed is slow, but he still performed very well in the CBA, and last year he also entered Du Feng's national team.
Liu Chuanxing disagreed on the renewal of his contract with Qingdao, mainly because he hated that the salary was not high enough, but after joining the Australian league last year, he did not play as dominant as Zhou Qi, so that it seemed that there was water in his value. Many people predict that Liu Chuanxing will still return to the CBA and be forced to accept the contract of qingdao team, but now his attitude is more resolute, since there are better opportunities to make money outside, it must be seized, not to mention that Qingdao team itself is not a championship-level team, and there is no loss of honor.
Also as potential newcomers are Zhu Songwei and Zheng Qilong, two college players who have shown good physical talent after entering the CBA, their running and jumping ability is very good, and they have the opportunity to become the core of teams such as Sichuan and Jiangsu, but they still leave without hesitation.
The East Asian Premier League is a new thing, and many fans have doubts about its level, but the Bay Area Pterodactyls have been generous in terms of reinforcements, which also reflects that some weak teams in the CBA are indeed not very sufficient in terms of capital investment, and young players would rather overdraft the future than first consider making money.
In recent years, Yao Ming has been promoting the reform of Chinese basketball, especially the CBA League is more perfect in the system, but the new version of the player contract implemented in 2020 has a lot of controversy, safeguarding the interests of the team, but some players will suffer losses, from Zhou Qi's departure from Australia, to now a large number of people to join the East Asian Super League is a signal, August 1 Guo Allen publicly expressed his hope to leave the Liaoning men's basketball team, the players began to actively express their attitude, the league needs to have a better design, in order to enter a benign operation.