The term "CBA veteran" used to be a mockery of former NBA players who played in the CBA, but this summer, the term "CBA veteran" appeared repeatedly in the news media because a basketball team called "Bay Area Pterodactyls" signed 10 CBA players in one go during the CBA offseason.
The Bay Area Pterodactyl Basketball Team was established at the end of 2021 and is a team under the umbrella of the Hong Kong Basketball Association of China. The previous name was bay area Jinyu Phoenix Team. Since this year's offseason, it has been constantly recruiting, and its channel of reinforcement is to recruit players from CBA league teams. By paying a lot higher than the salary regulations of CBA clubs, the strength of many domestic leagues will be included in the team, including Si Kun, Zheng Qilong, Song Jianhua and other people who have joined successively, and Liu Chuanxing, who played in the NBL league last season, was signed with a high salary of 10 million yuan.
In recent days, Zhu Songwei and Liu Xiaoyu have also broken up to join the Bay Area Pterodactyl. The continuous introduction of a number of domestic league players can not only improve the team's combat effectiveness, but also get a lot of news media traffic. On the contrary, for the CBA league, the continuous loss of strength players has also led to a continuous decline in the attention of the league, and the reduction of the intensity of the game is also a kind of harm to the league itself.
The Bay Area Pterodactyls' East Asian Premier League kicks off in October, and Pterodactyl boss Matt Bayer is also one of the initiators of the East Asian Premier League, with only eight teams from Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan and the Philippines currently competing.
The follow-up development of the Southeast Asian Premier League is not yet visible, but the Bay Area Pterodactyls' move to sign a number of domestic players in a row has received a lot of attention. According to media reports, the Bay Area Pterodactyl provided Zhu Songwei with a contract with an annual salary of 2 million, but if he stayed in the CBA to sign a B contract, his annual salary was only 300,000, so the huge salary gap also made many domestic players choose the Bay Area Pterodactyl.
In the face of this kind of poaching efficiency, the team CBA league is also a problem that has to be reflected, when a team spends energy to cultivate players are poached in vain, which is bound to affect the team's performance in the league. Similarly, for players, this lifetime contract also greatly restricts the player's freedom, so that the player has to choose overseas leagues.
Last year's NBL league won Zhou Qi, and this year's Bay Area Wing Dragons also recruited in domestic leagues. When players and teams can't agree, who can guarantee that there won't be the next Bay Area Pterodactyl next year?
Compared with the CBA strong teams, the bay area pterodactyls' homegrown main lineup is a little weaker, but compared with the downstream teams, it is experienced and has a thick lineup. The Hong Kong Bay Area Pterodactyl Dragons have won 10 CBA veterans this year, namely Hui Long'er, Zhu Songwei, Liu Chuanxing, Nicholson, Song Jianhua, Ju Mingxin, Zheng Qilong, Si Kun, Liu Xiaoyu and Qiao Wenhan.
Obviously, the CBA league is dug into a corner, although the Chinese men's basketball team is good, but the CBA has lost attention to a certain extent, if there are heavyweight star players leave the CBA, it is not difficult to imagine that after the CBA resumes home and away in the future, I don't know how many fans will give up watching the game, or even give up paying attention to the CBA. Then, the direct impact is the revenue of the CBA.
On this point, the CBA management can not fail to see, so in order to avoid more stars like Zhou Qi leaving the CBA, Yao Ming may be more urgent than ever to change the CBA's current "hegemonic terms" that are more inclined to the club - the exclusive signing right is definitely one!
Then, in this way, the marketization and standardization of CBA will also be closer and closer to us.