Study CBA foreign aid, give me study break defense

Here is a list:

Jordan Howard (Ningbo), Akil Mitchell (Qingdao), Quindari Weatherspong (Qingdao), Paris Bass (Zhejiang), Gabiel York (Zhejiang), Brandon Goodwin (Shanxi), Quentin Peterson (Xinjiang), Will Barton (Guangdong), Tremont Waters (Shanghai), Jared Sulinger (Shenzhen), TeraWes Teles (Xinjiang)

What do the following CBA foreign aid have in common？

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Well, without further ado, the common denominator of the above 11 CBA new season foreign aid is that they all played in the Puerto Rico League last season。

Apparently, the Puerto Rican league is becoming the CBA's new pool of foreign talent。

This is indeed a new phenomenon - although many of these people are themselves old faces of the CBA, but if you carefully look at the data list of Puerto Rico last season, you will be surprised how the Puerto Rico league foreign aid and CBA intersect so closely。

Just look at this screen, in addition to the above mentioned foreign players this season, you can also see Crick, Ed - Davis, Norris - Cole, Mudiay, Jordan - Bell these CBA old acquaintances

That begs the question - why do the CBA and BSN (Puerto Rican Premier League) have such a high degree of overlap in foreign aid？

In fact, the answer is very simple, mainly divided into two aspects:

One: The schedule

As we all know, regardless of the vast majority of the European league NBA or CBA and other Asian leagues, generally start in the autumn and end in the early summer of the next year。 On the one hand, this is customary, on the other hand, in order to collectively free up summer and autumn for the various competitions of FIBA (such as the Olympic World Cup, etc.)

But the Puerto Rico League is a strange thing, and it should be the only "summer league" in the FIBA world mainstream league that is at a good level.。For example, their season began on April 4, and the final game ended on July 9, which can be said to be completely retrograde with the world basketball peak。

This characteristic makes the Puerto Rico league the first choice for many mercenaries in the international basketball world to play a second job, and many brothers who want to make more money often join the Puerto Rico League after playing their main league, only to get a second salary。

For example, Salinger, who played the third game of the playoffs in Shenzhen and Liaoning on April 23 this year, played at the speed of light in the Puerto Rico League on May 10, and said that the model is not too much

So we can say that the Puerto Rican league is the backup league for all the other major leagues around the world。

And today's CBA is probably one of the most suitable CP with them。

Two: Level + salary

Since it is a spare league, the Puerto Rico League wants to be very open, and in the last 10 years, their start time is flexible from February to May (but most will start around April), and the entire tournament organization highlights a slack。

At the same time, because of the large mobility of personnel, there are big players from the NBA, CBA, and European leagues to practice, so the data list of the Puerto Rico league is almost every year and the previous year is completely different。

The main data list of the three seasons from 2022 to 2024, the top five of the three items totaled 45 person-times, of which 39 person-times were completely different

Such a league, want to create a stable environment is naturally difficult, of course, the Puerto Rican league itself has also thought of ways, such as setting a salary cap and other means, such as we found a data show that in 2021, the Puerto Rican league requires each player's monthly salary control of 800 to 2.Between $50,000, the total amount of foreign aid salary of the whole team in a year must not exceed 12.$50,000, $400,000 for the team's floppy caps。

But such a rule is basically just listen to it, it is unlikely to be strictly implemented and maintained, according to our understanding, Mudiay's monthly salary in the Puerto Rico League last season is between $40,000 and $90,000 (generally play for at least 3 months), and it is greatly overspent。

However, this data probably also Outlines the approximate financial level of the Puerto Rican league, and this level of salary is obviously not attractive enough for players with stable positions in Europe or Australia。

However, for the CBA, which has been demoted in the past two years, the foreign aid of the Puerto Rico League is a relatively suitable choice, both in terms of salary and level。

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It's actually about the Puerto Rican league，There is much more to be said for triviality，The league, for example, began in 1929 (it is now 95 years old)，Longer than the NBA)，For example, this league has been the beginning of the careers of many Hall of Fame coaches, including Ramsey, Holzman, Phil Jackson, and "Silver Fox" Harris，Even a passing talk about their weird relationship with the US etc...

I don't need to tell you who Phil Jackson is

But what I want to say is that in this league player profile, what I feel is a kind of specious thought before but now becomes very concrete impact。

Here I will give an example, Puerto Rico's current player Ismael Romero。

Romero is not particularly high level, he is now 33 years old, in the Puerto Rican league average of 15+8, so he naturally can not get the top foreign aid Mudiay level salary, and therefore, he chose to travel between many other places and Puerto Rico。

Last season, for example, he played for Real Betis in League B before returning to Puerto Rico for another season, playing more than 50 games a year at full capacity, according to proballers。

And how much did he get paid？Let's make an estimate，West B's salary is $3,000 - $15,000 a month (Romero didn't play long)，In the Puerto Rican league, even if he gets Mudiay's minimum salary of $40,000 a month，What he makes in a year playing basketball，If you go any higher, it could be around $400,000，About 2.8 million RMB (before tax)。

In many CBA teams, this is enough to reach the D level of maximum salary, in the local rich team is even less than half the level。

And what about Romero？In the 2023 Men's Basketball World Cup, he represented Puerto Rico in the game against China, and scored 18 points and 10 rebounds on 7-of-10 shooting, and the Chinese team was defeated by 20 points。

So you say, such a level of athletes, if he is a Chinese, he can not start in the national team, can not trigger a scramble in the CBA, get 6 million yuan maximum salary？

But the reality is，There are a lot of players of this caliber in the FIBA world (in the Puerto Rican league there are a lot of players who travel between Puerto Rico and leagues like Germany, Israel, Finland, Latvia).，They have to run around doing international jobs as models，To earn half the maximum salary of the CBA (so it is no wonder that many foreigners who come to China to play wild games are red eyed about the CBA)。

And if we take him as the anchor point, our players, in the entire FIBA price system, are not considered to be high quality (and shit).？

Our league, it's not stupid, it's rich？

The gap is there, whether you know it or not。

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