On the evening of April 7, with Xinjiang's 117-109 away victory over Guangdong again, Xinjiang swept the old rival who had defeated himself in the finals three times in a row with a big score of 4-0 and won the first championship trophy in the history of the team! For the Xinjiang team, this is definitely the championship they have been waiting for for many years, and it is also the championship that they have passed by many times.
As we all know, the Xinjiang team has won the runner-up four times in history. Among them, the 08-09 season, the 09-10 season, the 10-11 season, three consecutive seasons were lost to guangdong team, 13-14 season lost to Beijing.
However, more senior fans may remember that in the 2007-08 season, Xinjiang team was also very close to the finals and even the championship! However, the club's opportunism, with a man named "Guan Xiuchang", messed up this season.
In the 2007-2008 season, because the previous season was not able to reach the playoffs, the Xinjiang team in the new season increased its investment. The first is to invite back the veteran coach Jiang Xingquan, who once led the team to the CBA, and secondly, the sky-high annual salary recruited the "Xinjiang son-in-law" Battle (in order to join Xinjiang as desired, the bus even scrapped martial arts for a year, and did not play a game for a year just to get free). The joining of these two people has greatly improved the strength of the Xinjiang team. Coupled with the team's original "desert flying knife" Xu Guochong, "Zhongyuan Flying Hero" Xue Yuyang, national defender Jin Lipeng, and Two strong foreign aides of Brandon and David Jackson (later replaced by a foreign aid Alan Maji), xinjiang team's goal is not only to return to the playoffs!
At the end of the regular season, Xinjiang's record was the same as that of Guangdong, 26 wins and 4 losses, only because of small losses, ranking second in the standings. In his first season with Xinjiang, Battle averaged 17.4 points, 13.9 boards and 4.6 assists per game, shooting 61%, of which rebounds, assists and shooting percentages were career highs. And the successful tactical arrangement of the old Jiang, but also let Jin Lipeng, Murati, Xu Guochong and other role players fully show their respective characteristics on the field, the overall offensive and defensive ability of the whole team due to the arrival of the bus and the arrival of the old Jiang has greatly increased, the three-point ball has become a weapon in the attack of the Xinjiang team, David Jackson, Xu Guochong and Jin Lipeng often have amazing performances; David Jackson is a foreign aid who is very impressed by many Xinjiang fans. And the choice only allows him to break through, sometimes because the feel is not good, the two can not get too high scores, his performances are all in the hearts of the fans. However, the second-place all-time best in the regular season was ruined by a small man. His name is "Guan Xiuchang"!
In fact, this official Xiuchang and the CBA have long been related - in the 04-05 season, the Yunnan Bulls once introduced a young guard Ma Xiuchang who has been "a Mongolian self-national who has lived in the United States for a long time". Later, it was confirmed by several players who had played for the Yunnan team that Ma Xiuchang was later Guan Xiuchang. At that time, the media also questioned the identity of "Ma Xiuchang", and the answer given by the Running Bull Club was: he is Chinese-American, his ancestral home is Mengzi County, Red River State, he grew up after moving to the United States with his family when he was a child, and he has "dual citizenship", although he is not fluent in Chinese, but he is not a foreign player. Later, as the media questioned the voices increased, the Chinese Basketball Association also began to pay attention to the matter, and the Yunnan team quickly terminated his contract. In that year, "Ma Xiuchang" only participated in 4 rounds of competitions with Yunnan, made 1 appearance, and scored 2 points.
However, in the 2007-08 season, Guan Xiuchang took the identity document of harbin where his household registration was located and joined Xinjiang Guanghui! On October 31, 2007, Guan Xiuchang made his debut in the second round of the league but did not score a single point. In the 19 rounds of the Xinjiang-Shandong match, Guan Xiuchang scored a season-high 20 points. Guan Xiuchang played a total of 18 games for Xinjiang this season, averaging 6.2 points, 2.2 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game.
Since mid-December 2007, individual clubs and media have questioned the identity of "Guan Xiuchang". The first to break the news was the Shandong media, and later the Jiangsu media took the stubble.
At the end of the 20th round of the CBA League, after Guan Xiuchang's identity was questioned by a Jiangsu media, Hao Guohua, director of the League Office of the Basketball Management Center, had a phone call with Hou Wei, chairman of Xinjiang Guanghui Club, on December 14, 2007, and the Basketball Center asked Guanghui Club to report his true identity.
After that, the basketball management center immediately requested assistance from the Ministry of Public Security, the Heilongjiang Provincial Public Security Department, the Harbin Municipal Public Security Bureau and other public security departments at all levels. It was confirmed that the Heilongjiang resident identity card used by Guan Xiuchang was forged. On December 25, the Guanghui Club submitted new material about Guan Xiuchang, which contained his Macau identity certificate and his birth certificate in Macau. However, these materials are all copies, and the Basketball Center asked The Guanghui Club to provide the originals, but Guanghui did not submit them. The Basket Management Center submitted these materials to the relevant departments for verification, and found that they were also fake! After that, the basketball management center informed the Guanghui Club and asked to see Guan Xiuchang himself, but at that time it was found that Guan Xiuchang had disappeared. According to records from the Immigration Administration, Guan Xiuchang had already returned to the United States on flight CA983 on the evening of December 26 last year.
From December 30 to 31, Hao Guohua, an official of the General Administration of Sports, legal adviser to the Basketball Management Center and director of the league office, made a special trip to Xinjiang to learn again about the ins and outs of Guan Xiuchang's identity, and the Xinjiang Guanghui Club said that it did not know that Guan Xiuchang's Chinese identity was forged and that the club was deceived. But according to the survey, from 2004 to 2007, Guan Xiuchang traveled to and from China several times, and his only valid document was a U.S. passport. On January 2, 2008, the Basketball Management Center obtained part of the entry and exit records of Guan Xiuchang, whose U.S. passport number was 223058815, which had been used by Guan Xiuchang several times. It is reported that the Basketball Management Center has asked Guanghui Club several times to show a copy of the ticket purchase when Guan Xiuchang boarded the plane with the team to participate in the away game, but Guanghui Club never provided it.
In this way, all the evidence shows the following facts: Guan Xiuchang's only valid document is a U.S. passport, which indicates that he is a U.S. citizen rather than a Chinese citizen; the materials provided by the Xinjiang Guanghui Club when registering guan Xiuchang are forgeries and fabrications; the Macao identity materials provided by the Guanghui Club later are also fake; and the Xinjiang Guanghui team has actually used three foreign aides in 18 regular season games this season! At this point, the truth of the CBA "passport door" can also be regarded as a big white.
This is the beginning and end of the "Guan Xiuchang Incident".
In the end, after the study and decision of the leaders of the Basketball Management Center, the player of The Xinjiang Guanghui Team "Guan Xiuchang" participated in a total of 18 games, and in the 18 games in which he participated, he won 15 games and lost 3 games. In the 15 games won, the score was calculated according to Xinjiang's 0-20 loss to the opponent, so the Xinjiang team's points subtracted 15 points, the points became 41, ranking 11th, the original 3rd to 11th place in turn to the premise 1st place, and the ranking after 11th place remained unchanged. At the same time, the Basketball Management Center decided to submit the matter of "Guan Xiuchang" using fake Chinese resident identity documents to the public security department for investigation and handling, and "Guan Xiuchang" would never be allowed to participate in basketball competitions organized by the Chinese Basketball Association in China.
In this way, this "Guan Xiuchang", who averaged 6.2 points, 2.2 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game, made Xinjiang suddenly fall from the second place in the league to the 11th place, and directly lost the qualification for the playoffs! It was Guangdong and Liaoning who competed for the championship that year, and in the end, Guangdong defeated Liaoning 4-1 to win the team's fourth championship trophy. And the sad Liaoning is still the embarrassing "King of Liuya"!
After all the dust settled, the Xinjiang team KTV party that missed the playoffs, the bus wrapped its arms around the team members and sang "Start Over Again"!
It is not that if Xinjiang was not punished that year, they would definitely break into the finals and win the championship, but this disgraceful record did play a certain positive factor for the standardized management of Xinjiang and the CBA in the future