On the evening of May 15, Beijing time, the first leg of the 2023-24 CBA finals will officially start at the Liaoning Gymnasium, the home of the defending champion Liaoning Bengang. This is the first time in the history of Liaoning and Xinjiang two northern strong teams to meet in the finals, although the Liaoning men's basketball team has completed a double kill against Xinjiang this season, but looking back on the history of the two sides in the playoffs, the Xinjiang men's basketball team has an absolute advantage of 4 wins and 1 loss, so this round of the series is bound to be a group of evenly matched, Mars hit the earth like a hot matchup. For the Liaoning men's basketball team, this year is also a key year for them to hit the three consecutive championships, after five difficult promotions in the semifinals and Guangdong, the players have also reached the peak in terms of fighting spirit and unity, I believe that in tonight's finals G1 game, the Liaoning basketball players will do their best to win at home.
But before the game started, the Liaoning men's basketball team received an unexpected blow, according to the revelations of a number of media people, the CBA official is discussing the cancellation of the youth training camps of each club, and all players who want to enter the CBA to play in the future must pass the form of the draft. This is undoubtedly a key move for the CBA league to move closer to the NBA, but based on the current national conditions, the main channels for young players who can enter the professional league to play still need to be cultivated and transported through various sports schools and club youth teams, and in the current CBA league, especially the majority of players from Liaoning, in other words, the basketball youth team of Liaoning Province has sent a large number of outstanding talents to the entire CBA league. Then the most affected will also be the Liaoning men's basketball team.
After the previous CBA semifinals Liaoyue battle, Yang Ming and Zhao Jiwei invariably expressed in an interview with the media that all the current players of the Liaoning men's basketball team are all Liaoning players, although Cong Mingchen's hometown does not belong to Liaoning, but on the one hand, he is a native of Yichun, Heilongjiang, and he also belongs to the Northeast region, and his wife is also from Liaoning, so Cong Mingchen also belongs to Liaoning's son-in-law. On the other hand, Guangdong Hongyuan, who was defeated by the Liaoning men's basketball team, many of the cores in their team are related to Liaoning, like Zhou Qi grew up through the youth training camp of the Liaoning men's basketball team, and Li Yizhen, a young player who played a strange soldier in the semifinals, is from Fushun, Liaoning, and Zhang Haojia, another young player with outstanding performance, is from Shenyang, Liaoning, and only Xu Jie is really from Guangdong.
This is not to deny Guangdong Hongyuan's youth training camp, their youth training system is also very successful, but in the future, if the CBA official really cancels the youth training camps of various clubs, then the most affected is undoubtedly the Liaoning men's basketball team, after all, in this Liaoning team, whether it is the core Zhao Jiwei, Guo Allen, or veterans Han Dejun and Li Xiaoxu, they are all players who have played step by step from the Liaoning men's basketball youth training camp. It will also be snatched away by other teams in the draft, and even in the future in the CBA, there may be a similar NBA group effect, clubs with financial resources can use their financial advantages to hoard a number of superstars to build a luxury lineup, while clubs like Liaoning that do youth training in a down-to-earth manner will be hit hard because of the easy loss of talent.
If the academy is officially canceled next season, then I am afraid that this year's impact on the three consecutive championships will also be the last glory of the Liaoning men's basketball team in a short period of time, after all, in the next few years, people like Han Dejun, Li Xiaoxu and Guo Allen will gradually withdraw from the CBA league stage, without the injection of fresh blood into the academy, what kind of big fish can the Liaoning men's basketball team catch in the free market?