Following the announcement of former Chinese men's basketball player Zhang Qingpeng's retirement, another Chinese men's basketball veteran Yi Li also announced his official retirement on September 21, staying in Jiangsu Kendia as an assistant coach. At this point, the small forward who has played in the CBA League for 18 years has officially come to an end on the field.
Yi Li's 18-year career in the CBA has played for Jiangsu Kendia, which can be said to be an excellent representative of one person and one city. When he was young, he was known as the "dunk king" of the new generation because of his outstanding personal bouncing ability and dunk violence. Throughout his career, he has also played for the Chinese men's basketball team many times in international competitions, and is also a player who has appeared in the NBA again after Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi, but only in the summer league.
Yi Li's overall body is thin, which also determines his style of play. He is not good at physical confrontation, but his agility, speed, agility and bounce are at the forefront of the league, often able to use his speed and agility to hold the ball into the inside line, stage wonderful layups and dunks, and has also been called into the men's basketball national team because of his sharp breakthrough and fast style.
In his national team career, Yi Li has had many highlight moments, and the most classic performance is the Asian Championship in 2011. In 2011, Yi Li was called up to the national team to compete in the 2011 Asian Championships. Due to the defeat of the Chinese men's basketball team in the 2009 Tianjin Tournament, it lost its asian hegemony. Therefore, the 2011 Asian Championship is a game in which the Chinese men's basketball team prepares for the snow shame.
In that final, the Chinese men's basketball team final against the strength of the Jordan team, in the last two minutes of anxiety, Yi Li contributed a personal career of the most exciting dunk in the national team: a fake action outside the three-point line to shake off the opponent, the right foot accelerated directly into the opponent's inner line of the ball into the opponent's inner line of the penalty area, and then it was take-off, one-handed dunk, the whole process was completed in one go, vigorous battle axe, ignited the whole field.
In the end, in that finals, China defeated Jordan 70-69 to regain its Asian supremacy, and Yi Li could average 7.8 points, 1.9 rebounds and 1.4 blocks per game in that Asian Championship.
In his entire 18-year CBA career, Yi Li averaged 34.8 minutes per game, could get 12.3 points, 4.1 rebounds, 2.1 assists plus 1.4 steals, and was elected the leading scorer in Jiangsu's history with a total score of 6948.
Looking back on his entire career, Yi Li signed a total of 6 contracts with different annual salaries in the 18 years of Jiangsu Kendia. Among them, in the three years of the 2002-2005 season, Yili's annual salary was only 100,000 yuan. In the 2005-2008 season, the annual salary was 500,000 yuan, and in the five seasons of the 2008-2013 season, Yili's annual salary rose to 1 million yuan. In the 2013 season, Yi Li and the team re-signed a four-year contract with a total price of 6 million yuan, with an annual salary of 1.5 million yuan.
In the two years of the 2017-2019 season, his annual salary was 2 million, with a total price of 4 million. In the last year of his career, he signed a contract with Jiangsu with the highest annual salary of his career, with a total price of 4 million yuan a year, which is also the last reward of the Jiangsu team for this meritorious player.
In total, in the 18 years of fighting, Yi Li's player salaries have earned a full 19.8 million yuan, with an average annual salary of 1.1 million yuan. This is not a high income for a CBA player, but for ordinary people, it is already an income that dare not be imagined.
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