On October 27, the CBA foreign aid signing news was updated, and the defending champions Guangdong Hongyuan and Weems officially completed the renewal of their contracts, the latter of which will return to the Guangdong team in the second stage and will represent Guangdong for the fourth consecutive CBA season. In the past three seasons, Weems has played for Guangdong and has helped the team win the championship, and each season of the championship journey Weems follows the team to the end.
Weems joined the Guangdong team in the summer of 2018, when he just ended his contract with the Zhejiang men's basketball team, but was not enforced the right of priority renewal, coinciding with the injury of Guangdong's then foreign aid Morris, Zhu Fangyu and Du Feng, who were eager to find new foreign aid, resolutely decided to sign Weems as a fire-fighting foreign aid, opening the era of small ball belonging to the CBA League. In his first year with Guangdong, Weems averaged 23.1 points, 5.7 rebounds, 6.4 assists and 1.6 steals per game, helping Guangdong win the CBA championship for the first time in five seasons.
The 19-20 season was the highest moment for Weems to join the Guangdong team, the playoff quarterfinals against Beijing's first regular season time to complete the whistle equalization, and finally helped Guangdong reverse the victory, that season Guangdong Finals defeated Liaoning to defend the title, Weems was elected as the MVP of the Finals with an average of 34.8 points, 7 rebounds and 5.3 assists per game. After Guangdong completed three consecutive championships in the 20-21 season and Weems became Jaegers, the second in CBA history to win three consecutive championships and participate in the final foreign aid every year. In an interview in the offseason, Weems said he was looking forward to four CBA titles, so that he could surpass Marbury, who is considered by most people to be the first foreign player in the CBA, and the old horse has won three championships in his entire CBA career.
At present, the CBA regular season is in the first stage, and Weems cannot play now due to the failure to return to the team in time in the United States before, and needs to wait until the second stage to play. Fortunately, the Guangdong team used the all-Chinese class to achieve good results, and the key battles in Zhejiang were also won, and had achieved 5 consecutive wins, and when Weems joined, the overall paper strength of the Guangdong team would be stronger.
Guangdong general manager Zhu Fangyu has previously made it clear that the team will not find new foreign aid, mainly seeking to renew Weems and Marshon Brooks, after finalizing Weems to renew the contract, the rest is to sign Ma Shang. But it is worth noting that Ma Shang suffered a rupture in the Achilles tendon last season, and is still in the recovery stage, the fastest also needs to wait until the end of January 2022 to return, it may miss most of the regular season, once Zhu Fangyu determines to renew Ma Shang, then the Guangdong team basically has to play the whole regular season in the whole Chinese class and the single foreign aid model.
(Lin Xiaoxiang)