In mid-December last year, the Australian NBL League Phoenix officially announced that Zhou Qi returned to China due to family reasons.
So suddenly, everyone was caught off guard, and they all speculated whether something really happened to Zhou Qi's family?
Later, it was found that this worry was superfluous, and turned his head and posted a video of surfing in Sanya, Hainan, on his personal social media, so that he should not live too happily in his small life.
This time should still be in Sanya, Zhou Qi's Weibo IP is still located in Hainan, and recently some netizens posted a video of him playing wild ball, anyway, how cool it is.
So what's the problem? What does Zhou Qi want to do? The season is underway, but there are holidays everywhere.
Of course, if the online statement is correct, it makes sense to end the cooperation with the Phoenix early and come back to deal with the relevant formalities.
If you do resume your free agency, you don't need to wait until next season to return to the CBA, as long as you sign with your favorite team during the trade window in the middle and late part of this month (17th to 18th), you can return in Phase 3 of this season.
This is definitely a signing that can directly change the pattern of the league, and the team to be signed is most likely the defending champion Liaoning team, what a finale!
All of the above are rumors, and there is no clear conclusive theory, and the ancestors can distinguish for themselves.
However, 3-time All-Star guard Liu Xiaoyu has confirmed to sign with the Beikong team, and everyone has appeared under their own basket, and can even listen to the coach's tactical arrangement, as long as the official trading window can reach a franchise agreement as soon as possible.
After leaving the Beijing team last offseason, this buddy was going to play in the Bay Area Wing Dragon, but unexpectedly due to the delay in completing the formalities, and just received an olive branch thrown by the Beijing Holdings team, so he finally decided to return to the CBA.
Speaking of Zhou Qi, recently he chatted with fans and confirmed that he will play in the sixth window of the World Preliminary Tournament held at our home stadium in Hong Kong this year, and will complete the first cooperation with the new coach of the national team, Mr. Qiao, and the first game since 2023, and it is expected that he will soon be officially announced to join the next Chinese men's basketball training squad.
The first opponent was Kazakhstan, and in the last World Preliminary Tournament, Zhou Qi scored 19 points and 11 boards, leading the Chinese men's basketball team to a 68-56 victory.
The opponent was the Iranian team, which was familiar but has now become unfamiliar with the rupture of the Achilles tendon of Haddadi.
If Ah Dian remembers correctly, the last time Zhou Qi played Haddadi in FIBA was at the Jakarta Asian Games in '18, when he was an NBA player, and contributed 15 points, 11 rebounds and 4 blocks to help the Chinese men's basketball team win the championship.
Time passes, and things are different from people.
Not surprisingly, the final of the Asian Games in Jakarta was the last FIBA meeting between Zhou Qi and Haddadi, and they have not even met since then, although the latter has not yet decided to retire.
But in February, the Chinese men's basketball team can also use this to test the Iranian team in the post-Haddadi era, how will the style of play change? Get ready for a long showdown ahead.
Because I got the ticket for next year's men's basketball World Cup early, the next World Preliminary Round of the Chinese men's basketball team is mainly based on training troops and inspecting players, and also let Zhou Qi play mainly to maintain the state of the game, after all, if you don't play for a long time, it will rust, and see if Qiao Shuai's system fits him?
No matter who will be the coach of the Chinese men's basketball team, Zhou Qi will be the absolute core, and the team must be built around him, there is no doubt about this!