Fans who care about the CBA know that the Jilin team is the poorest team in the league, so poor that it can only afford to hire a foreign aid, and there are not many local players who can "play" on the team.
Many fans can't help but wonder, why is the Jilin team so poor? Is there no corporate sponsorship?
The Jilin team is sponsored by enterprises, or why is it called "Jilin Jiutai Rural Commercial Bank" team, Jiutai Rural Commercial Bank is its title sponsor. But the financial strength of the club is not determined by sponsors, but mainly by investors. The investors of all CBA clubs are either large state-owned enterprises or powerful private enterprises. Who are the investors of Jilin Siberian Tiger Club? is Sun Jun, a basketball star known as the Tiger King. Sun Jun owns 95% of the Siberian Tigers Club and serves as the team's general manager as chairman. The basketball star became the owner of the club, and only Sun Jun, chairman of the Jilin Club, was the chairman of the Jilin Club in the whole CBA.
Sun Jun is a star player of the golden generation of the Chinese men's basketball team, once served as the national captain, and led the Chinese men's basketball team to the eighth place in the 1994 World Championships and the 1996 Olympic Games. He won the scoring king in four seasons in the CBA League, was elected as the regular season MVP three times, scored 70 points in a single game, and has the reputation of "Tiger King", and has a very high status in Chinese basketball.
In 2003, Sun Jun began his transformation, where he held the positions of player, manager and general manager of the club. In 2004, the Jilin team's superior group went bankrupt and the club was auctioned off, but the club that was left with only an empty shell and still owed salaries to the players was left unattended. In the end, Sun Jun raised his own funds, advanced his salary, and signed foreign aid, thus saving the Jilin team. And the tiger king Sun Jun has also become a businessman and a big boss from a basketball star.
Sun Jun is a geek when playing, and he is also a wizard in business. At present, his involvement in the field is not limited to basketball, his companies include property companies, investment companies, flower companies, seedling planting companies and many other formats.
Although Sun Jun can make money, he is a small fool compared to the financial owners of other clubs in the CBA. Moreover, most of the current CBA clubs are buying and selling money.
However, the business prospects of CBA clubs are very good, especially for clubs with a solid foundation like Jilin Club. If Sun Jun is willing to sell the club now, he will definitely not worry about having no buyers, and he can even make a big profit.
Sun Jun has no strength, why not sell the Jilin Northeast Tiger Club? If the current Jilin team buys another foreign aid and adds some local players, it may become a championship team.
Why would Sun Jun rather live in poverty and pay for subsidies than sell the club? Isn't Sun Jun's persistence and perseverance a little selfish?
No!
From another Gong Xiaobin, who also has the title of king, he understands Sun Jun's persistence and perseverance.
Gong Xiaobin is also a star player of the golden generation, and Sun Jun is a teammate of the national team at the same time, he is explosive in handsomeness, and his ball skills are also explosive, known as the "King of Xiaoyao", and Sun Jun is also a typical representative of "one person, one city and one team". If Sun Jun is the totem of the Jilin team, then Gong Xiaobin is definitely the symbol of the Shandong team. Gong Xiaobin played for Shandong when he was a player, and after retiring from football, he became the head coach and general manager of Shandong team, and once brought Shandong to the CBA finals. Gong Xiaobin's life's struggle, life's feelings, and life's hard work are all in the Shandong men's basketball team, but now Gong Xiaobin, for the Shandong men's basketball team, is more helpless.
The original investor of the Shandong men's basketball team was Shandong Gold Group, but this company did not attach importance to the investment of the Shandong men's basketball team, and there was a problem of wage arrears. It just so happened that Sun Liang, the boss of Shandong High-Speed Group, was an avid basketball fan and bought the Shandong men's basketball team from the Gold Group in 2014. Shandong Expressway has deep pockets, coupled with the fact that the old is always an avid fan, naturally invested a lot in the Shandong men's basketball team. But although this boss is half a bucket of water for basketball, he likes to manage basketball very much, every time he goes to the home game, he personally points at the scene, and more importantly, he directly contacts with some of the main players of the team, resulting in contradictions between Gong Xiaobin and these main players, and finally Gong Xiaobin was kicked out of the team.
Just 4 years later, Sun Liang, the boss of Shandong Expressway, retired, and Shandong Expressway sold the Shandong men's basketball team to Shandong private enterprise Xiwang Group. Xiwang Group invited Xiaoyaowang back as the head coach and general manager, Ji Minshang as the chairman, and the Shandong men's basketball team was quickly on the right track again. However, the strength of the Xiwang Group is limited, coupled with the impact of the epidemic, the team has a problem of arrears of wages. In just 3 years, Xiwang Group sold Shandong back to Shandong Expressway. This time, Shandong Expressway hired Xu Changsuo as the head coach of the team and Gong Luming as the general manager. Because the team's results were not satisfactory, Xu Changsuo left class after only one season, and this season invited Wang Han, the head coach of the Jilin team. Although the current Shandong team is strong, its results are still not ideal. So the fans in Shandong thought of Xiaoyao Wang Gong Xiaobin again. But Gong Xiaobin recently showed deep helplessness in an interview with the media.
The Shandong men's basketball team in the past ten years can only be described by the word "toss". In fact, the Shandong men's basketball team and Gong Xiaobin are just a hangover photo of the CBA. The development of basketball requires not only capital, but also feelings.
Sun Jun's persistence and perseverance are the deep feelings for the basketball cause, which is the most needed sentiment for China's basketball industry and even Chinese sports. Sun Jun's persistence is worthy of recognition, and Sun Jun is also worthy of admiration.