Xu Jicheng: There will be no relegation or relegation in the CBA for the time being, and the NBL level is getting higher and higher, especially last year

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2024-05-30 19:36Posted in Shanxi Sports Creators

At the press conference of the new season of the 2024 NBL league, Xu Jicheng, chairman of CBA, responded to the topic of "relegation" that the outside world is concerned about. He euphemistically said that there will be no relegation or relegation in the CBA for the time being, and the future pattern is no longer just relegation and relegation, but CBA in winter and NBL in summer, and the future NBL level is no worse than the CBA level.

"People are very concerned about this. First of all, there is a period of time in the career development of Chinese basketball. When the CBA started with only 12 teams, 15 teams, any league has the size to cover. When it grows to 20 teams, the investor's investment, including the stability of the league, has to be considered. Xu Jicheng said.

Xu Jicheng said that the current NBL level is getting higher and higher, especially last year, which gave them a lot of confidence.

"The NBL team doesn't seem to be relegated or relegated now, and there is no CBA team in the hinterland of the Central Plains of the Yangtze River, so now that there are 10 teams, everyone has also seen that the level of the game is getting higher and higher, especially last year, which gives us great confidence." Xu Jicheng said.

But what is unbelievable is that in last year's NBL, there was an embarrassing scene of Shaanxi Xinda withdrawing from the finals. Although Shaanxi Xinda was persuaded to continue participating in the following series, it was eventually heavily punished. In this season's NBL, there has been an embarrassing situation of many teams withdrawing, and the level of the NBL league in recent years has not been high at all. I don't know why Xu Jicheng has a completely different opinion?

In Xu Jicheng's plan, the future CBA and NBL will become winter and summer games respectively, each building its own brand, NBL teams do not need to just lock into the CBA, and the future NBL level is no worse than the CBA.

"In the future, our pattern is no longer just about relegation and relegation, but our winter and summer, our professional league is a year-round composition, which can allow more teams to build their own brands based on their own cities, and improve the opportunities for more young players to practice, and the CBA also has many players from the past NBL, and our CBA also benefits from the support of the NBL." Xu Jicheng said.

"Now that we're entering a new period, we need to plan the summer league and the winter league together, the summer league itself, and in the future you will feel that it is not much worse than the level of the CBA. Because the basketball game is not about many stars, but about the intensity of the confrontation in the basketball game, what we see is the rapid growth of the NBL in the past two years. Don't just lock me in which league (CBA). ”

But in fact, in any country in the world, there is no level of two leagues at the same level, and the gap is often relatively large. In China, the gap between the top teams in the CBA and the NBL is even more obvious. The development of the NBL has become less and less satisfactory over the years, and now it has to plan a blueprint, which can't help but make people feel that this is a pie.

Moreover, a big part of the basketball game is the star. The same is true in the CBA, the finals in these years have been one-sided, either because of star injuries or because some teams have no stars, which has led to a big reduction in excitement. And Xu Jicheng's speech was also an eye-opener.

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