In last year's playoffs, the Jiangsu men's basketball team and the Shanghai men's basketball team were punished for playing match-fixing, and both teams were disqualified from playing games and participating in the competition, and the coach of the Shanghai team, Li Chunjiang, was disqualified from being a coach within five years, and the coach of the Jiangsu team, Li Nan, was disqualified from being a head coach within three years.
After Li Nan was unable to become the head coach of Jiangsu, there was a player in the Jiangsu team whose playing time was drastically reduced, and he was Li Nan's son Li Luxi. Li Nan sent Li Luxi to the Jiangsu youth team very early, and in 2020, he served as the head coach of the Jiangsu team and promoted his son to the first team.
In his rookie season, Li Luxi got 10.7 minutes of playing time, averaging 3.5 points, 2.6 rebounds, 0.1 assists, 0.2 steals and 0.4 blocks per game, and as a 2.13-meter-tall center, his shooting rate was only 36.1%.
Even so, in the second season, Li Nan still gave him an average of 19.7 minutes per game, and his statistics improved to 7.9 points and 3.7 rebounds, with a shooting rate of 53%, which was remarkable. Later, the Jiangsu team introduced other center forwards, and Li Luxi had a lot less playing time, but he was still the team's rotation player.
However, after Li Nan got out of class, Li Lutong has almost not played this season, so far this season, the Jiangsu team has played 24 games, but Li Lutong has only 11 appearances, 13 games have been abandoned, so far this season he has averaged only 5.9 minutes of playing time per game, 2.5 points, 1.3 rebounds, 0 assists, 0.4 steals, 0.3 blocks, 0.4 turnovers, many of the data are career lows, without the protection of his father, he is almost unable to play.
In contrast, Arslan is really happy, his father Adijiang coached the Bayi team for 17 seasons from 2001 to 2018, with this relationship, Arslan played for the Bayi team for 6 seasons, during which he did not shoot more than 41% in a season, but still got more than 20 minutes of playing time, and an average of about 8 shots per game, no matter how bad his performance was, he has been renewing his contract.
Later, Adijiang went to coach the Xinjiang team, and Arslan soon got a 4-year contract, during his time in the Xinjiang team, his scoring efficiency was still very low, and the highest season was only 43.1%, but he played a lot of time, averaging about 25 minutes per game, if it weren't for his father, he wouldn't have gotten so many opportunities.
After Adijiang left the Xinjiang team to coach the Ningbo team, Arslan also came to the Ningbo team, and served as the captain of the team, this season he averaged 32.7 minutes of playing time per game, and obtained unlimited firing rights, after being forced by his father for 9 seasons, the 27-year-old Arslan finally got the hang of it.
In the Ningbo team that has no record requirements, and the large number of balls given by his father who is the head coach, Arslan has experienced the feeling of being the core, and he has also played a good performance, so far this season, he has played 14 games, averaging 16.2 points, 2.7 rebounds, 6.9 assists, 0.5 steals and 0.1 blocks per game, shooting 40.6% from the field and 32.7% from three-point range, and the points, rebounds and assists are all career highs.
Now that his wings are full, even without the protection of Adijiang, he can gain a foothold in the CBA. And Li Luxuan, who lost Li Nan's protection, may disappear from the CBA in a few seasons, but he is much luckier than those players who have no background, they don't have much opportunity for trial and error, or even a chance to play.