The fifth round of the CBA regular season Liaoning vs. Xinjiang is of great significance to Li Xiaoxu of the Liaoning men's basketball team! This is li Xiaoxu's 566 games for Liaoning in his career, surpassing the previous liaoning team's appearance king, and is currently the 565 games of Liaoning team coach Yang Ming, enjoying the honor of Liaoning team appearance king.
Li Xiaoxu was born in 1990 in Gangtun Town, a very wealthy village in Huludao City, Liaoning Province, and his family engaged in the mineral business, which can be said to be a real family mine. Li Xiaoxu from a young height is different from ordinary people, so very young began to contact basketball training, in 2002, when the coach of the Liaoning Youth Basketball Team Cui Wanjun came to Huludao City to select basketball seedlings, at a glance Li Xiaoxu, brought Li Xiaoxu into the Liaoning Youth Team, a year later, Li Xiaoxu was promoted to the Liaoning Youth Team.
In 2005, the second nobleman in Li Xiaoxu's life appeared, he was Jiang Xingquan, the head coach of the Liaoning men's basketball team at the time. Jiang Xingquan took a fancy to Li Xiaoxu, who was already more than 2 meters tall at the time, and then Li Xiaoxu was promoted to the Liaoning first team, and in the 2005-2006 season, the 15-year-old Li Xiaoxu represented the Liaoning men's basketball team and began to compete in the CBA League. During the season, Li Xiaoxu played 24 games for Liaoning, averaging 3.2 points and 2 rebounds per game.
In the 2009-2010 season, Li Xiaoxu, who was under the age of 20 at the time, played 36 games for the Liaoning men's basketball team, and the important thing is that he can play 38 minutes per game and contribute 15.5 points and 8.5 rebounds per game, which is a very eye-catching figure for a young player under the age of 20. At this point, Li Xiaoxu also laid the position of the main lineup of the Liaoning men's basketball team. In the 2011-2012 season, Li Xiaoxu averaged 10.9 points and 10.8 rebounds per game, which was also the first time in his career that he averaged two double-doubles in a season.
As Li Xiaoxu plays more and more time in the CBA league, his characteristics of rebounding and competition are becoming more and more mature. In three seasons of his career so far, he has averaged more rebounds per game than he has scored. In 2010-2011, he averaged 9.8 points and 10.5 rebounds per game; in 2013-2014, he averaged 8.8 points and 9 rebounds per game; and in 2014-2015, he averaged 8.3 points and 8.7 rebounds per game. The rebounding data is even higher than the score, which is enough to highlight how strong Li Xiaoxu's rebounding ability is.
At present, Li Xiaoxu's rebounding data ranks fifth in the history of the CBA, the top four are Yi Jianlian, Battle, Tang Zhengdong and Han Dejun, these four are all centers, and Li Xiaoxu is a big forward, which further highlights Li Xiaoxu's super ability to compete for rebounds. In the five rounds of the regular season this season, Li Xiaoxu started every game, averaging 21 minutes per game, and averaged 5.6 points and 5.4 rebounds per game. It is worth mentioning that of the 27 rebounds obtained in 5 games, 17 are frontcourt rebounds, which to a certain extent increases the opportunity for liaoning to attack twice, so the current role of Li Xiaoxu for liaoning teams is still quite huge.
Li Xiaoxu had two major injuries in his career, the first time was in 2016, during the physical test before the start of the regular season, Li Xiaoxu was unfortunately injured, and then the examination was a serious Achilles tendon rupture, so he missed the 2016-2017 season. The second injury was in 2020, when the right knee was severely injured with a 450-day absence. Li Xiaoxu's return to the court this season is entirely dependent on Li Xiaoxu's love for basketball and super self-control.
It should be known that He Tianju, who is the same age as Li Xiaoxu, has also been injured twice, and it is indeed a great pity to say goodbye to the CBA this season. Here's wishing Li Xiaoxu all the best in his future career! Congratulations to the second brother for becoming the first person to appear in the current Liaoning men's basketball team!