On the evening of February 28, Xinjiang Guanghui issued an official announcement on men’s basketball, announcing its withdrawal from this season’s competition and its withdrawal from the CBA league. In the announcement, the club stated that the discipline and ethics committee of the Basketball Association believed that Xinjiang Guanghui basketball club had “registered violations” and made serious mistakes and unreasonable “penalties” on February 17 “, it seriously violated the legitimate rights and interests of the club. The club” cannot recognize and never accept “, so it made a solemn decision to quit.
As one of the core figures in this incident, Zhou Qi, the men’s basketball Chinese athlete, posted a long article on his personal microblog at 04:53 this morning, accusing the senior men’s basketball in Xinjiang of “bullying me for years, rubbing me wantonly, and cheating, I can’t bear it anymore.” According to the punishment decision issued by the discipline and ethics committee of the Chinese Basketball Association on February 17, Zhou Qi, who has a contract dispute with Xinjiang men’s basketball, has recovered his “free body” and can freely transfer to other teams in the CBA league.
Red Star News reporter contacted Zhou Qi through an intermediary and asked the player about his next plan. Zhou Qi only said, “I don’t know.”
From the transfer to Xinjiang men’s basketball to participate in the CBA league in 2014, to the NBA joining the Houston Rockets in July 2017, and then to the return to Xinjiang in August 2019 men’s basketball, Zhou Qi won the CBA league championship in his career, he also completed his dream of playing NBA. However, due to a contract dispute with Xinjiang men’s basketball, Zhou Qi announced to withdraw from the CBA league of the 2021-22 season in August 2021, and immediately joined the southeast Melbourne Phoenix team of the Australian league NBA, in this way, “break” with the team “.
Now, in the form of issuing announcements and statements, the two sides have once again highlighted the contradictions in public view. This incident shocked the whole basketball world and even the sports world. Su Qun, a well-known basketball commentator, said that such a result could only be said to be “three defeats and injuries”. This year is the men’s basketball World Cup year. Chinese basketball should have hit the World Cup with one heart. After all, the “fiasco” of the World Cup at home in 2019 has already made Chinese basketball fall to the bottom again, yao Ming was asked by the reporter at the scene after the game, “If there must be one person to bear this responsibility, who will it be?” He responded with the word “I” firmly, hoping to take all the blame for men’s basketball alone. Today, four years later, Chinese basketball has once again come to the key gear of preparing for the men’s basketball World Cup. If the final result is not good, who can stand up and blow away this haze?
(Text/Red Star News reporter Pei Yi Zhou Yao)
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Xinjiang men’s basketball and Zhou Qi’s entanglement