In the evening of that day, Li Guangyu and Cao Weiqing went to the Hengyu Basketball Center. The first game of the ABA Finals will kick off here tonight. The two sides can be said to be a civil war under the Li Group. The Xiangjiang Hengyu team battles Shanghai Phoenix.
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This is also the second meeting between the two teams in the finals after four years. Four years ago, the Xiangjiang Hengyu team won the championship with a big score of 4:2. This time, the Xiangjiang Hengyu team still won the championship, or did it?
It will be interesting to see how the Shanghai Phoenix team avenges their revenge four years ago.
From the 1989~1990 season to the current 1999~2000 season, the ABA Professional League has also entered its eleventh season. Among them, the Tokyo Sakura team won the championship in three seasons: 1989~1990, 1992~1993, and 1993~1994.
The Xiangjiang Hengyu team won the championship in three seasons: 1990~1991, 1995~1996, and 1998~1999.
The Seoul Samsung team won the championship in two seasons, 1991~1992 and 1996~1997.
Taipei Yulon won the championship in the 1994-1995 season.
Singapore Hong Leong won the championship in the 1997~1998 season.
After two expansions in 1992 and 1998, the current ABA has reached 36 teams.
Currently there are five teams in South Korea: Seoul, Busan, Incheon, Daegu, and Ulsan.
Japan also has five teams, Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Hokkaido, and Yokohama was added in 1992.
Treasure Island still has four branches, Taipei, Taichung, Kaohsiung, and Tainan.
Lisboa is still a team.
There is only one in Xiangjiang.
There is no increase in Thailand, there is still only one.
There are three branches in Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur and Johor Bahru, and Penang was added in 1998.
Two branches in Indonesia, Jakarta and Bandung.
One from the Philippines.
One from Singapore.
Two Vietnamese branches, Hanoi and Haiphong, were added in 1998.
The ten branches in mainland China include Shanghai and Huacheng. In 1992, Hangcheng, Jinling, Jinmen, and Ludao were added. In 1998, Pengcheng, Qindao, Jingcheng, and Rongcheng were added.
Among them, there are five teams from South Korea, five teams from Japan, plus Beijing, Jinmen, Qindao, Shanghai, Hangcheng, Jinling, Ludao, and Taipei as the northern half, and four or three from mainland China, Jiabao Island, and the other three plus Xiangjiang.
, Lisboa and Southeast Asian teams are in the southern half.
At the same time, the northern and southern halves are divided into three areas. The northern half includes the northern division of Gyeongsong, Jinmen, Qindao, Seoul, Incheon, Daegu, the northeastern division of Busan, Ulsan, Tokyo, Hokkaido, Osaka, Nagoya, and the central division of Yokohama.
Jinling, Shanghai, Ludao, Hangcheng, Taipei.
The southern half includes the Southwest Division: Chengdu, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Johor Bahru, Penang, Singapore, the Southeast Division: Jakarta, Bandung, Manila, Tainan, Kaohsiung, Taichung, Central and South Division, Huacheng, Pengcheng, Lisboa, Xiangjiang, Hanoi, and Haiphong
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After years of development, the ABA has become a professional basketball league second only to the NBA. It is as famous in Asia as the NBA. The annual finals attract hundreds of millions of fans in Asia, including Europe, Africa, North America and Latin America.
There are also many TV stations in Australia broadcasting live.
The top teams in the ABA have very good market values and profits. For example, the Hong Kong Hengyu team, excluding various expenses, earned more than HK$1 billion last season.
Tickets are not the focus. Advertising fees in the venue and the league’s advertising share are the source of huge profits for the Hengyu team.
As the first game of this season's finals, there are many TV stations broadcasting live here, including Jiayi Sports Channel, Mainland CCTV5, Shanghai Comprehensive Channel, Baodao's Hsinchu Sports Channel, and more than 50 countries and regions around the world.
TV stations broadcast live here, and there are more than 200 news media outlets of all kinds.
In order to show support for their teams, senior executives of Hengyu Supermarket Group and Phoenix Group came here tonight.
Since Chen Linwen became a member of the executive team and became the person in charge of Southeast Asia affairs of the Lee Group, Hengyu Supermarket Group is now taken over by Liu Weifang, the former president of Xuelan Supermarket Group, and Fang Ruoyang, executive vice president of Hengyu Supermarket Group, has been appointed president of Xuelan Supermarket Group.
Tonight, Liu Weifang went to the home team lounge with the group's executive vice president Liao Shaoyun, vice president Liu Qiwen, general manager of the administrative department Chen Farong and others.
Phoenix Group was not lagging behind either. He Jin led the group's executive vice president Wang Jing, vice president Zhou Libin, vice president Pang Jianbai, vice president Zeng Huiqi, and general manager of the administration department Qiu Shuzhen to the visiting team's lounge.
At this time, Li Guangyu and Cao Weiqing did not join in the fun. Both teams were owned by him. No matter who won the championship in the end, Li Guangyu was very happy.
Since this is already the eleventh season, the Xiangjiang Hengyu team is very strong. It has entered the playoffs in all eleven seasons, and has entered the finals five times and won three championships. This is the sixth time it has entered the finals.
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And this time it is still related to whether the Hengyu team can defend the title, which makes the Hengyu team very popular in Xiangjiang. The tickets for tonight and the night after tomorrow were sold out after the Hengyu team was confirmed to enter the finals.
The format of the finals is slightly different from the division playoffs. The division playoffs format is 22111, while the finals is a 232 format, both best-of-seven games.
In the finals, the team with the highest ranking in the regular season will play two home games, then three away games, and then two home games. Whoever wins four games first will win the championship.
In the regular season, the Hengyu team won 75 games in a total of 87 games and won the regular season championship. The team's core guard Chen Weiming won the championship this season with averages of 26 points, 6 assists, 5 rebounds, and 2.1 steals per game.
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Chen Weiming is only 23 years old this year. He officially joined the Hengyu team at the age of 18. He can be said to be quite a genius.
As an out-and-out Xiangjiang native, Chen Weiming attended Xingguang School from an early age until he graduated from the fifth form of middle school at the age of 16. Then he trained in the ABA affiliated league for two years. When he was 18 years old, he directly joined the Hengyu team.
He did not take the draft route. In that case, it would be impossible for him to enter the Hengyu team. The Hengyu Supermarket team, which has always been relatively strong, does not have a good lottery to select him. With his level, it is impossible to fall behind, so
He chose to join the Hengyu Supermarket team directly. Although his salary would be affected a little, he didn't care.
His father and mother both work under the Li Group, but not in the Hengyu Supermarket Group. From childhood to the time he graduated from Form 5, his family did not spend a penny on tuition. The school also provided free lunch, all of which were from Li Group.
The charity fund under the consortium is providing funding. He is very grateful to the Lee Consortium in his heart, so he is also willing to play for the team under the Li Consortium.
The ABA draft only officially started in 1992. Participants must be over 18 years old. It is also divided into two rounds, with 36 people in one round.
The ABL was also established in 1992. There are only eight teams in total, one in South Korea, which is mainly the second-line personnel of the five teams in South Korea, and one in Japan, one in North China, one in East China, one in Baodao, and one in South China.
One is the Thai and Feiyin seal, and the other is the New Horse seal.
Chengcheng is cooperating with the South China team, and their second-tier players are also in the South China team.
With the league's promotion of basketball over the years, and various countries strengthening the training of sports talents, although physical quality is still incomparable with blacks, in terms of skills and tactics, Asia is better than the NBA.
At this year's Sydney Olympics, Asia included mainland China, South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan.
There are 12 teams, the host Australia is directly selected, seven teams from Asia, Europe, America, Oceania and Africa are selected, the champions of each continental championship are selected, plus the third place in Asia and Europe is selected, the world championship champion is selected, and then there are 3 places in the losing round.
In the past, the top two teams from Europe and the United States advanced. Since the 1996 Olympics, Asia has taken over one of the spots from the Americas. Asia has two spots and the Americas have one spot.
The reason for this is considering that Asian countries and regions far exceed those of the Americas. In recent years, the strength of Asian basketball has soared rapidly, and with the support of many countries in the European Union and Africa, the United States has nothing to do if it has objections.
As for the opinions of other countries in the Americas, Asian countries don't care about it. Except for the United States, there are no big countries in the Americas that can take action.
This time, mainland China and Japan were the champions and third runner-up of the Asian Championships. South Korea and Baodao grabbed two places in the qualifying round. As for Xiangjiang's strength, it was still a bit weak, so it was a pity that it was eliminated.