On October 24, Beijing time, the fourth round of the CBA regular season ushered in a focus battle, Guangdong men's basketball team against Shanghai men's basketball team, in the first half, Guangdong maintained the lead for most of the time, once leading double digits, but the Shanghai men's basketball team was very tenacious, chasing only 5 points before the end of the half.

Guangdong had previously won all three games, leading the standings with Guangsha, and Yi Jianlian missed two consecutive games after his comeback in the first game. Shanghai brought in Wang Zhelin this season, starting with two consecutive wins, only to lose to Beijing in the last round, suffering the first defeat of the season. In this game, Li Chunjiang led the team to face the old master.
Yi Jianlian continued to be absent in this campaign, which was his three consecutive rounds of rest, Ren Junfei and Ren Junwei entered the starting line at the same time, and the two brothers competed in the same game. At the beginning of the first quarter, Wang Zhelin scored first under the basket, Kolan Baike and Zhou Peng hit three points in succession, the two teams scored alternately, Xu Jie hit three points, and the two teams played 10 draws. Guangdong pressed the opponent to make mistakes in succession, Franklin complained about eating the technical prisoner, and Guangdong overtook 16-12. There were many mistakes in both teams, shanghai bit the score, at one point chased 19 draws, the first quarter Guangdong 21-19 led only 2 points.
Shanghai attacked the dud in the second quarter, Guangdong's outside line began to exert force, Xu Jie and Zhao Rui hit 3 three-pointers in a row, and Guangdong played a wave of 15-5, which soon widened the point difference to 12 points. The Shanghai men's basketball team withstood Guangdong's attack and bit the score, Guo Haowen, who came off the bench, became a miracle soldier, hitting two high-difficulty whistle three-pointers, hitting all three shots in the half to get 8 points, the Shanghai men's basketball team bit the score, and chased only 5 points in the half, 45-50 behind.
On the Guangdong side, Zhou Peng had 13 points and 5 rebounds, Zhao Rui had 12 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists, Xu Jie had 8 points, and Hu Mingxuan had 7 points. In Shanghai, Ren Junwei scored 12 points, Wang Zhelin scored 8 points, Franklin had 5 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists, and Guo Haowen had 8 points.