On August 18, Beijing time, this week the CBA officially announced the player registration information of the Guangzhou Dragon and Lions, the team's main internal line Guo Kai, his contract shows that it has been changed to a D contract, which means that Guo Kai has officially completed the new signing and got a maximum salary contract.
The official announcement given by the CBA shows that Guo Kai is currently holding a class D maximum salary contract for a period of three years, the status is to complete the renewal, and he is also the owner of the only maximum salary contract for the current Guangzhou team. Born in 1992, Guo Kai is 29 years old, 2 meters tall, and can play as a big forward and center forward. He represented Peking University in CUBA in 2012, led Peking University to win the first CUBA championship in team history in 2014, and then entered the first round of the CBA in the 2016 draft, joining the Guangzhou team as a champion. In this way, Guo Kai became the first person in the history of the CBA to receive a top salary of 6 million yuan, and his salary for the next three years is worth at least 18 million yuan.
Entering the league, Guo Kai's progress is quite fast, in the 2016-17 season, he played 18 games for Guangzhou, averaging 11 minutes per game, only contributing 2 points and 2 rebounds, only playing 6 games in the 2017-18 season, averaging 5 points and 2 rebounds in 9 minutes per game, playing 46 games in the 2018-19 season can contribute 6 points and 4 rebounds per game to 21 minutes, and the 2019-2020 season ushered in a transformation. Averaging 12 points, 7 rebounds and 2 assists in 31 minutes in 18 games. After Guo Shiqiang came to Guangzhou to coach last season, he further developed Guo Kai's projection, Guo Kai played 30 games, averaging 11 points, 8 rebounds and 2 assists in 30 minutes per game, which is a very important scoring point for Guangzhou team. After he was injured in the second half, the performance of the Guangzhou team also took a sharp turn for the worse, which was greatly affected.
In fact, to be fair, if it is impossible to get a maximum salary of 6 million yuan in a strong team with the ability that Guo Kai is showing now, on the one hand, it is 11 points per game, which is not absolutely outstanding, on the other hand, his age is not small, and he is about to enter the year of standing, relatively speaking, there is not much room for growth. And in the past 5 years of his career, he has already had a relatively large injury, so Guo Kai was able to win this contract worth a total of 18 million yuan, absolutely thanks to Guo Shiqiang.
In fact, behind this renewal, it also reflects that Guo Shiqiang is indeed given more power in the team. Guo Kai is a player he values very much, he is working hard to transform Guo Kai, and the other two young players Zhu Mingzhen and Li Yanzhe have also been renewed, which fully shows that this team is transforming according to Guo Shiqiang's will, last season's North Control coached by Marbury to reach the playoffs, the new season they have a more ambitious goal.