Not long ago, the T1 League's Taiwan Beer Clouded Leopard Ball Group announced the signing of former NBA player Cousins, and after Jeremy Lin and Warcraft came to Taiwan one after another, "cousin" Cousins also came!
After the end of the 2021-22 season, the 31-year-old Cousins, the former NBA All-Star center Olympic gold medalist, also ended up with no ball to play.
His first stop was Puerto Rico, an American island nation not far from the United States geographically, where Cousins averaged 19.6 points, 9.8 rebounds and 4.3 assists per game at Metro Guainavou.
Somehow Cousins turned into an internet celebrity and was invited to China to join the label, and it is not uncommon for big stars to come to China, but during the season, I can only think of the NBA shutdown 12 years ago.
Cousins came to China suddenly this time not only to play a label game, looking at his excitement on the court, maybe his real purpose is to find a job, but unfortunately he didn't get his wish, but 10 days to earn 100W is also a full load.
Soon after going back, there was news that Kaoshen signed with the T1 League, and then T1 Taiwan Beer Clouded Leopard officially announced his joining, in this official announcement, if you look closely, you will find that some words are quite intriguing, Taiwan Beer Clouded Leopard just mentioned that you can go to Taoyuan Dome in late January 4 home games "pilgrimage".
And Beiqing Daily reporter Song Xiang revealed that Cousins signed a half-month contract this time, which is equivalent to coming to Taiwan, China to work for a short time, looking at the world basketball world, such an operation can also be called an explosion, but in the three major leagues SBL League, PLG League, and T1 League, this wave of operations is not strange.
Among the three major leagues, the SBL league was established at the earliest, which was a league that existed in the era of Lin Zhijie and Liu Zheng, but because this is a semi-professional league, both the competitive level and the salary package are no longer attractive to young people.
In 2020, Chen Jianzhou established the PLG League, and in 2021, the T1 League was established.
As a latecomer, the T1 league is inferior to the PLG league in terms of attention and competitive standards, especially in this offseason, T1 can be described as stormy.
The Taoyuan Clouded Leopard where Howard once stayed announced that it had merged with the Taiwan Beer Ying Bear to become the team that Cousins joined, and the Taichung Suns were announced to be disbanded.
Over the years, there have been endless voices calling for the merger of the league, and even T1 CEO Qian Weijuan is hinting at the possibility of merging next year, of course, these are all later words, and now the T1 league needs to continue to make great efforts to recruit if it wants to come out.
Fans all went to see Jeremy Lin and Lin Zhijie, the PLG next door is so lively, for the T1 team, even if it is just 1 game, even if the salary is settled, as long as it can sell out, and applaud, I believe that the T1 league is very willing.
However, for this big-name player, plus whether he can control his emotions and focus on showing the professional attitude he should have on the court after only playing a few games, it is still a big question to play well, after all, Cousins's temper is well known to everyone.
There is still more than half a month before Cousins comes to Taiwan, don't let the Taiwanese beer clouded leopard bamboo basket be empty, and don't let the Taiwanese professional basketball team become a joke again!