In the Amazon rainforest, the vibration of a butterfly's wings may cause a tornado. This chaotic metaphor is the "butterfly effect." All the gifts given by fate have been secretly marked with a price. A nationally concerned CBA game and "anti-counterfeiting", all the seeds have long been planted, cultivated, and grown many years ago, and finally bear fruitful consequences.
was fined 5 million, head coach Li Chunjiang was banned for five years, and this season's results were canceled! Since Shanghai Jiushi entered the Shanghai men's basketball team, everyone in the CBA world knows that they have money and are known as the "new tycoons" of the league since the Xinjiang men's basketball team.
Since throwing money madly for three years, Shanghai Jiushi is to win the championship as soon as possible, but so far, these real money has been spent, and some noises have indeed been heard, but the loudest is the heaviest fine in CBA history.
How rich is Shanghai Jiushi?
On the afternoon of May 28, 2019, Jiushi Group and Shanghai Men's Basketball officially announced that Shanghai Jiushi Sports Industry Development Group Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Jiushi Group, officially completed the acquisition of 100% of the shares of the former Shanghai Oriental Basketball Club. The Shanghai men's basketball team has officially entered the "Jiushi era".
Shanghai Jiushi Group, formerly known as Shanghai Jiushi Company, is the first government investment and financing company in China. By the end of 2017, Jiushi Group had a registered capital of 60 billion yuan, total consolidated assets of 461 billion yuan, an asset-liability ratio of 39%, 10 directly affiliated enterprises, and more than 70,000 employees.
The core industries of Jiushi Group are mainly distributed in four major sectors: sports industry, urban transportation, real estate and capital management. Taking the sports industry as an example, at the end of 2007, Jiushi Group established an international event management company, and two years later, Jiushi began to hold the ATP1000 Masters, the highest level of international men's professional tennis, and a seat in the platinum box of the event was as high as 50,000 yuan. In 2014, Jiushi successfully introduced the Global Equestrian Championships, which became the world's top equestrian competition held in mainland China for the first time since the founding of New China, creating economic benefits of up to 480 million! At the end of 2015, the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government decided to transfer five enterprises directly under the Municipal Sports Bureau, including East Asia Group, to Jiushi Group, which shows that Jiushi has a strong state-owned enterprise attribute.
At present, the sports industry segment of Jiushi Group is mainly responsible for the organization, management and promotion of major international events such as the F1 China Grand Prix, ATP1000 Tennis Masters, Global Equestrian Championship, FIA World Endurance Championship, World Snooker Shanghai Masters, ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup, IAAF Diamond League Shanghai Station, etc., and is responsible for the development and operation of Shanghai International Circuit, Shanghai Stadium, Shanghai Stadium and other large stadium facilities. Against the backdrop of a large number of international events, basketball is only one sector of the sports industry.
Just a few days before Suhu was severely fined, Jiushi Investment Management Co., Ltd. officially held 100% of the shares of Shanghai Shenhua Football Club! The registration of the club's industrial and commercial change has been completed, marking that the 30-year-old Shenhua Football Club has officially entered a new era of long-term events. It is reported that Jiushi has just taken over Shenhua and has already invested 500 million.
In such an environment of Chinese football, it can also insist on a large investment, Shanghai Jiushi is really not bad money, as we all know, football investment is huge, basketball is completely incomparable.
Crazy investment is about winning championships
Officially joined the Shanghai men's basketball team, Jiushi began to turn clouds in the player market, they did not retain Fredette and Scola, who had slipped in form, but introduced two veteran Rockets Nonnelly and Motai Yunas, while maintaining outside firepower, the inside strength was also enhanced. In terms of internal assistance, the Shanghai men's basketball team changed even more, Li Gen, Ju Mingxin, Zhang Chunjun and Deng Qun flew to shoot, and also picked Baodao player Wu Yongsheng in the draft, aiming for the championship.
In particular, Li Gen's contract almost caused Shanghai Jiushi to take the whistleblower to court. A reporter reported that the total annual salary of the three-year contract signed by Li Gen and the Shanghai men's basketball team exceeded 50 million, with a salary of 12 million yuan per year, 13.8 million yuan in the second year, and as high as 28 million yuan in the third year!
What is the concept of this salary? If it's really what this number says, it's really sky-high. Even if Li Gen is a player outside the system and has a certain degree of freedom, don't forget that after Li Gen left Beijing, his performance in Xinjiang was not good, such a player, given such a contract, Jiushi's financial resources are really proud.
However, the Shanghai men's basketball team later refuted the news on the official social platform, "Today (July 3, 2019) at about 2:30 p.m., an article titled '3 years 53.8 million!' CBA's blog post about the birth of the largest contract this summer' attracted widespread attention from public opinion and was forwarded one after another. Especially in the basketball self-media circle, basketball community, some websites, some authoritative media forwarding, the majority of netizens are hotly discussed. The Shanghai men's basketball team wrote, "The content mentioned in it about the contract amount of Li Gen is seriously untrue, this information does not ask our club for any details at all, it is completely fabrication and speculation, and this irresponsible false dissemination has brought serious negative impact and damage to the reputation of our club and the CBA league." This action also violates the relevant legal provisions. ”
The Shanghai men's basketball team also stressed that the team's recruitment work was implemented under the framework of the CBA league's regulations, and reported to the relevant departments of the CBA in accordance with the regulations, calling on relevant media and journalists to maintain self-discipline, and the club firmly reserved the right to pursue their legal responsibility.
Even if the rumors are refuted and the tone is tough, the outside world still talks about the contract given to Li Gen by Shanghai Jiushi, believing that there is no wind and no waves, and if it wants to poach Li Gen at the national hand, Shanghai must have paid a lot of price.
Once the results were poor, the Shanghai men's basketball team began to change foreign aid, and spared no effort, in the 2019-20 season in addition to Motelyunas and Nonnelly, they also used two foreign aides, Cunningham and McCollum, the following season these foreign aid Shanghai was gone, the introduction of Dunmont and the recall of Fredette, last season the foreign aid was replaced by Vonley and Franklin, this season after Beasley failed to replace it with Bledsoe, while retaining O'Briant and Trimble.
In terms of domestic aid, Shanghai used cash and sent former CBA champion Xiu Junxuan and others to trade Wang Zhelin, rumors that this cash reached 80 million, although the Shanghai media refuted the rumors, but it is definitely not a small amount. And last offseason Zhao Rui fell into the rumors of leaving the team, it is reported that Zhao Rui's intentional home is Shanghai, as for Zhou Qi and Shanghai's "scandal" has not been broken, especially during this season after the basketball association punished Xinjiang to make Zhou Qi briefly free, many media people bluntly said that Zhou Qi is about to join the Shanghai men's basketball team.
In terms of coaches, Shanghai's coach changes have been frequent in the past few years, from Li Qiuping to Manos, to Rockets assistant coach Spasha, and Li Chunjiang, if you count Liu Wei, who took over briefly, they have changed a total of 5 head coaches, and the desire for a championship is obvious.
The reality of dismal results is even more anxious
The club's leadership did not keep a low profile, and when inspecting the team, he bluntly said that it was to compete for the league championship. This is not only the will of the club, but also a direct reflection of a higher level of thinking, as a state-owned enterprise, long times have deep pockets, but if there is no crown for many years, it will inevitably cause external discussion.
Somewhat ironically, at the 2019-20 pre-season departure ceremony, Shanghai first began to raise the slogan with its own emblem element "Shark", and that year was the domineering "Shark returns to the peak, create glory again". As you can see, this slogan is very imposing, and at the same time the goal is very large, because "re-casting glory" obviously means regaining the championship. As a result, the Shanghai men's basketball team won 16-30 in the regular season and only finished 16th, and was slapped in the face.
In the 2020-21 season, this time the Shanghai men's basketball team has a better memory, even if there are fierce generals such as Kelan Baike and Liu Zheng joining, their slogan is "gathering sharks to pursue dreams, strive for the top", even so, the Shanghai men's basketball team only won the 14th place, and once again said goodbye to the playoffs.
After entering the main two consecutive seasons, the Shanghai men's basketball team has not been able to make the playoffs, this is still in the case of the playoff quota increased from the original 8 to 12, such results are not only the fans and media are not satisfied, the relevant leaders who attach importance to basketball are even more dissatisfied, not only feel faceless, sometimes even angry, some insiders revealed that the leaders are sometimes talking about the results of the Shanghai men's basketball team.
The leader was not satisfied, the perennial investment was not proportional to the results, so that Jiushi was very anxious, even if he missed the playoffs in a row, he continued to invest heavily, hiring Li Chunjiang as the head coach of the team, and Li Qiuping also advised Li Chunjiang, and the two famous coaches injected tough blood into Shanghai.
Last season, the Shanghai men's basketball team put forward a more low-key slogan, "shark to the future", Li Chunjiang also said that the team's goal is to reach the playoffs first, and finally Shanghai reached the final four. Li Tianrong, Dai Hao and other young generals also have relatively excellent performances, which is in line with the slogan put forward.
Speaking of young players such as Li Tianrong, the echelon of the Shanghai men's basketball team has recruited a large number of young talents, Zhang Zhiyao, Liu Lijia, and Li Hongquan, who is known as "domestic Zion", have all come from overseas, highlighting Shanghai's arrogance.
There is money, more willing to spend money, who can not love such a gold owner? And having money can often solve the so-called problems, and the fact that a top star like Wang Zhelin can switch from Fujian to Shanghai shows "banknote ability". It is rumored that his transfer fee is as high as 80 million yuan, plus an additional signing fee. Although this figure has not been confirmed, it is obviously impossible to get a player like Dawang without shedding some blood.
It is reported that over the years, agents have continuously found the Shanghai men's basketball team and recommended domestic and foreign assistance to them. In the player agent circle, everyone understands that if you have money for a long time, you are willing to spend it. There has even been a consensus that it is right to find Shanghai in the past two years. Because looking for Shanghai, the price obtained must be higher than the market value, you can earn more, players can also earn more, who is not willing to do such a transaction. Since 2018, the Shanghai men's basketball team has introduced a total of 11 foreign aides, and each season's foreign aid is different, and once there are stars who can't find jobs in the NBA, even the American media will ridicule the so-called revelations, pointing out that their next home is the CBA's Shanghai team, such as "Melon" Anthony, which shows that Shanghai's money has spread to the other side of the ocean.
The tickets also reflect how anxious they are
No matter how rich you are, and you don't want to be said to be "stupid and have a lot of money", the Shanghai men's basketball team once fell out of the top ten this season, and there were rumors of infighting, and the outside world was talking about it for a while.
Fortunately, after the arrival of Bradsoe, the Shanghai men's basketball team gradually stabilized the situation, climbed up the ranking little by little, and Wang Zhelin won the regular season MVP, it seems that this season is really expected to make a breakthrough.
However, in the last game of the regular season with Beikong, perhaps because of the personal grudge between Li Chunjiang and Marbury, Shanghai still did not save face for the opponent when the score was ahead, and also put the main force and foreign aid on the field, and could win 100 points and never win 99 points, which laid the groundwork for the conflict between Ma Yong and Bledsoe. After the match, Bledsoe was officially suspended for 4 games.
In order to make Bledsoe return as soon as possible in the quarterfinals, the Shanghai men's basketball team chose to rest Wang Zhelin in the second round of the play-offs, and also used the all-Chinese class in the second half, and finally lost to Jiangsu Kendia, which caused an uproar from the outside world. It can be seen from this how anxious the Shanghai men's basketball team is, hoping that Blood Cloth can lift the ban as soon as possible in the second round and kill all sides and cross the hurdle of Shenzhen.
So the Shanghai men's basketball team must wait, because the results and championships are too important, but they really do not give up, the third game facing the lack of Wu Guanxi Jiangsu, even if the other party uses substitutes for a long time, Shanghai is behind for a long time, and finally there is no way, a minute and a half before the final Jiangsu has a variety of inexplicable mistakes, giving up the victory.
This minute and a half of Su Hu's poor performance completely aroused public anger, causing the Chinese Basketball Association to order the CBA company to investigate as soon as possible, and finally the Shanghai men's basketball team was fined 5 million, Li Chunjiang was banned from coaching for five years, and the results of this season were canceled, and all the previous efforts to wash the ban on blood cloth were in vain.
After being fined, the attitude of the Shanghai men's basketball team was very sincere, saying that it "resolutely accepted and obeyed" the punishment decision, "deeply realized" the mistake, and expressed its most sincere gratitude to the fans, and would definitely deeply reflect on the lessons of this incident, rectify team discipline, draw inferences from one example, strengthen the club's various management work, etc., create a fair and just environment, and "make due contributions to promoting the development of sports and basketball in Shanghai." ”
In addition, a working group was also lined up within Jiushi to enter the club to investigate and rectify. Relevant parties in Shanghai even organized a meeting of professional clubs, focusing on discipline issues, which shows that this incident has shocked Shanghai's sports level.
epilogue
Crazy money for four years, the loudest is the heaviest fine, 5 million for Shanghai Jiushi will not hurt the bones, Li Chunjiang can not coach can also enter the team management as a staff member, but they are finally on the right track, can they really make a comeback next season? The answer is blowing in the wind.