As one of the founding teams of the CBA League, the official name of the Liaoning men's basketball team is Liaoning Flying Leopards, due to the change of sponsors in the history of the team, the Liaoning men's basketball team has successively used Liaoning Hunter, Liaoning Panpan, Liaoning Hengye, Liaoning Bengang as the team name. After entering the CBA League, the Liaoning men's basketball team won 1 championship and 8 overall runners-up.
As a team that has long been active in the league with a strong team posture, the local youth training of the Liaoning men's basketball team has done quite well, and it is not too much to call it a famous player. In terms of the use of foreign aid, in addition to a very few feats, most of the Liaoning men's basketball team is a short-term passer-by who comes and goes in a hurry, and there are also some names that are quite familiar to everyone or have good strength. The three major factors of comprehensive strength, contribution and fame will be counted by the author in this article
The five major foreign aides in the history of the Liaoning men's basketball team for reference. Due to space limitations, if there is a lost pearl or a choice of discussion, you are naturally welcome to leave a message in the comment area to share your opinion.
V. Lance Stephenson
In terms of style, Lance Stephenson is an attacking defender who is good at breaking through, with both strength and speed skills, but his shooting choices and on-court style have been criticized. In the NBA, he played a highlight season performance of 14.2 points, 4.4 rebounds and 2.8 assists. In eight seasons, he averaged 8.6 points, 4.2 rebounds and 2.9 assists per game.
Back in August 2019, the Liaoning men's basketball team signed Stephenson to a one-year, $4 million contract. In the CBA league, such salaries are already historical figures. In terms of fame and strength when he joined, Lance Stephenson is basically the biggest foreign aid in the history of the Liaoning men's basketball team. In the 19/20 season, Lance Stephenson averaged 26.7 points, 7.4 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game, shooting 52.4 percent from the field. Unfortunately, Lance Stephenson failed to help Liaoning win the championship and left in a hurry after playing for one season.
IV. O· J. Mayo
Back in the 2008 draft, Mayo was selected by the Timberwolves in the Scouting position and then started his NBA career with the Grizzlies. During his seven years in the NBA, Mayo averaged 13.8 points, 3.1 rebounds and 2.9 assists per game. Because of poor defense and drug ban time, Mayo's reputation in the NBA is not good, and he left the NBA when he was only a 28-year-old pawn.
Since then, Mayo has been involved in the Puerto Rican League, the SBL League on Treasure Island, the NBL League on the mainland, the ABL League in Southeast Asia, and so on. Although Mayo's fame is great, the journey after leaving the NBA is inevitably a sense of disappointment and tiger falling into the sun. In a way, the CBA journey is a redemption journey for Mayo, a journey to rebirth. In the 19/20 season, Mayo joined the Liaoning team and exploded in the season of 28.2 points, 3.9 assists and 6.5 rebounds. In the 20/21 season, Mayo's playing time was reduced from 37.8 minutes to 28.2 minutes per game, with 19.4 points, 4.8 rebounds and 2.9 assists per game, which was not lost.
III. James Hoggis
The mention of James Hoggis's name may evoke the memories of many veteran Liaoning men's basketball fans watching football when they were young. As an interior player, James Hoggis was one of the first players to come to the CBA to play, with average skills, but his physical fitness and dunk skills were quite outstanding, and the basket attack was ok.
Back in 1996, James Hoggis joined the Liaoning Hunters, averaging 15.6 points, 6.3 rebounds and 1.1 blocks per game. In the game against the Bayi men's basketball team, James played a career masterpiece, with a number of highly ornamental jump shots and flying tomahawk dunks to lead Liaoning to end the three-year unbeaten legend of the Bayi men's basketball team. After playing for Liaoning for one season, James Hoggis moved to Jiangsu and then returned to Liaoning to re-enact passion for the audience. In 1996, 1997 and 1998, James Hoggis won the All-Star Slam Dunk Contest three times. It can be said that James Hoggis is the early representative of popular foreign aid in the CBA, and countless Liao basketball fans have been the darlings of their hearts.
Ii. Brandon Bath
Brandon Bath is a tough, stout interior, with consistent rebounding and scoring performance, and single defense and co-defense are limited by relative height. As the No. 33 show in 2005, Bass spent 11 seasons in the NBA league, playing for a number of NBA teams including the Pelicans, Mavericks, Magic, Celtics, Lakers, Clippers, etc., and averaged 8.7 points and 4.5 rebounds per game in his career, which is enough to show that he is a very hard-working professional player, not an idle person.
Prior to the start of the 17/18 season, Brandon Bass joined Liaoning, averaging 21 points, 9.6 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game. That season, he teamed up with Hudson to help Liaoning win the only championship trophy in team history. The weight of this honor alone is enough to make Bass rank very high in the Liaoning men's basketball team's historical foreign aid sequence. In the 18/19 season, Bass played another season for Liaoning, with 21.0 points, 9.6 rebounds and 1.8 assists.
First, Lester Hudson
In the 2009 draft, Hudson was selected by the Celtics with the 58th pick. Hudson, an older rookie who was 25 years old when he joined the NBA, spent the next three seasons with four teams, averaging 4.7 points, 1.2 assists and 1.4 rebounds per game.
After leaving the NBA for the first time, Hudson came to the CBA to develop and played quite well in different places, including Dongguan. In the 14/15 season, Hudson joined the Liaoning men's basketball team and truly opened his own BCA legendary road.
In the Liaoning men's basketball team, Hudson played for five seasons (2014-2019), averaging 29.0 points, 6.6 rebounds, 4.7 assists and 2.4 steals per game. During this period, Hudson won an MVP & an FMVP, leading the Liaoning men's basketball team to break the fate of no crown can be called the highest moment of his career.