The dust settled on Zhou Qi's trip to play overseas, and finally Zhou Qi signed a contract with the Australian NBL League Southeast Melbourne Phoenix for a two-year contract, of which the second year was a player option. It is reported that Zhou Qi's annual salary is about 4 million yuan, which is lower than the CBA maximum salary, but higher than the NBL league's maximum salary (500,000 US dollars).
Zhou Qi will represent the Phoenix in the NBL League next season, and Zhou Qi will also become the ninth Chinese player to land in the Australian National League, the first eight being Zheng Wu, Liu Xiaoyu, Sun Hefeng, Liu Bo, Yan Peng, Wang Tong, Li Tianrong and Liu Chuanxing, who signed with the NBL Brisbane Bullets earlier than Zhou Qi.
In order to sign Zhou Qi, the Phoenix team is sincere from top to bottom, and the CEO of the team promises to help Zhou Qi return to the NBA. Zhou Qi himself also expressed his reasons for joining the NBL in social media, and said that the best chance to return to the NBA is to join the Phoenix.
At a time when Zhou Qi and the Xinjiang team were unhappy about the renewal of the contract, many fans questioned Zhou Qi's willingness to have a stalemate with the Xinjiang team that had cultivated him for money, but the reality showed that Zhou Qi's goal was not to make more money.
According to domestic media reports, after Zhou Qi refused to renew his contract with xinjiang, the Korean KBL League and the Japanese B League, which had a good life, had teams offer contracts for Zhou Qi, of which the Japanese team even offered a salary higher than the CBA's maximum salary (6 million yuan), but Zhou Qi chose to ignore it.
According to a well-known basketball commentator Su Qun, Zhou Qi rejected the NBL Sydney Kings with a higher offer in order to join the Phoenix, and one of the kings' shareholders was anndrew Bogut, a former NBA player who had made provocative remarks against China.
I believe that many fans do not know much about this league in Australia before Zhou Qi signed with the NBL team, the full name of the NBL league is the Australian National Basketball League, nominally the national league, but the actual control is in private hands, the boss Larry Kesterman owns 51% of the NBL, and Larry Kesterman is a real estate tycoon.
Zhou Qi joined the Phoenix team in Melbourne, Australia's second largest city, with a population of more than 5 million, is an internationally famous fashion capital, and is the first city in the southern hemisphere to host the Summer Olympic Games (1956), in addition to a large number of Chinese gathered here, Zhou Qi's joining will undoubtedly bring a sensation to the local Chinese market.
Giving up the CBA's high salary and comfortable environment, Zhou Qi chose a relatively difficult and challenging road, which made many fans who questioned Zhou Qi change their attitudes before, and what is more valuable is that Zhou Qi did not give up his NBA dream, and he hopes to use this as a springboard to prepare for returning to the NBA.
(Text/Chivalrous Basketball)
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