Chapter 5 Meetings and Olympians

The day of the meeting

The team owners gathered together to prepare for the first CBA Council meeting.

There were only 13 teams in the CBA in 2002, namely Shanghai Oriental Team, Bayi Team, Jilin Jiliang Team, Ludong Kingston Team, Capital Shougang Team, Jiangsu and Zhejiang Wanma Team, Guangdong Hongyuan Team, Sina Lions, Jiangnan Team

Nangang Team, Chang'an Dongsheng Team, Liaodong Panpan Team, Capital Aoshen Team, Pengcheng Runxun Yikang Team.

At this time, the CBA was not called CBA, it was called League A. It had promotion and relegation, not the admission system that was later adopted.

This system was also a major feature of the time and had strong characteristics of learning from the football league.

Many famous teams are still lingering in League A and B, such as Beijing Enterprises, which was still the Chongqing Xianglong in 2014...

In the conference room, team owners have arrived one after another.

Before the meeting started, each boss gathered in his own small circle to chat.

"Every day, things change, and suddenly a CBA company appears."

Which Sina Lions boss caters to.

The bosses had already anticipated these measures, but there was one thing that surprised them.

Of course, in addition to ridicule, Chen Xinglian was more respectful and regretful.

In his previous life, he had a profound impact on the team that was lingering in the ABA league.

Senior talents who were previously engaged in league operations in the NBA. This time they return to China and will lead everyone and the Chinese League to glory. Xinglian will introduce it to you."

For example, the Sina Lions announced their withdrawal from the CBA in 2003 due to huge financial problems and rumors of unfair refereeing.

Now that the league is in its infancy, it needs a team owner to support it.

For example, in order to attract viewers, the league will take a series of measures, which is the "Promoting League Atmosphere Plan 1.0"

"Why are everyone talking so lively?"

"The NBA's approach may not be suitable for our national conditions."

This includes the improvement of venue facilities. Although it is still not possible to build a large arena like the NBA that can accommodate 40,000 people, at least the arena must be renovated to look better and fully reflect the CBA culture and basketball atmosphere!

"Come on, what's the point of changing? The champion is probably from your Sharks team. Everyone is envious of you for having a genius like Yao Ming!"

Even in the future, the Bayi Men's and Women's Basketball teams will announce at the same time that they will no longer participate in the CBA league, officially announcing that the military team will bid farewell to the CBA stage.

The owner of the Sina Lions also shared the information he knew.

"I heard that the basketball team hired someone from the NBA and said they wanted to build China's own commercial league."

The person in charge of the Bayi Team seemed calm. As the center of the storm, he did not react much.

However, we didn’t have high expectations for today’s meeting, because many teams on the field will face the problem of disbandment soon.

As for wandering outside all the time, it's a pity.

Li Yuanwei asked with a smile.

Speaking of which, the biggest highlight this year is the showdown between Bayi and Shanghai, and the confrontation between Yao Min and Liu Yudong. This is enough for fans to still talk about it in 20 years...

Li Yuanwei also introduced various team owners to Chen Xinglian.

It's a warm-up for the meeting.

Upon seeing this, the team bosses stood up and signaled. Li Yuanwei put down his hands and motioned for everyone to sit down.

The boss of the Oriental Team doesn’t look so good-looking. He has been troubled recently because of Yao Ming’s incident.

For example, lighting projects, adding LED advertising spaces... Small arenas should be small and exquisite.

"Today I specially bought a set of Vasachi to look stylish."

Regarding the setting of the salary cap, new player contracts have also been announced.

The meeting mainly announced the company's articles of association and some important matters, and signed a contract. After all, part of the team's management rights will be incorporated into the CBA company.

After all, the boss of Aoshen had the rare ability to see the world from a stand in the early days, and was able to find high-level European and North American coaches for young players.

To be honest, as a Chinese basketball fan, Chen Xinglian has feelings for Bayi. But now as the head of the league, he has to follow the same path as in another time and space.

Obviously that target, Chen Xinglian, is locked in as the owner of the Olympians.

Chen Xinglian: “In order to conform to the local cultural characteristics, some people don’t think that our league teams are either dragons, tigers, lions or the like.

"Why does this team need to change its name? I think the name of our team, South China Tiger, is quite good."

"Really? By the way! Today I would like to introduce to you, this is the new general manager of CBA Company, Chen Xinglian.

At this time, all the team owners stopped talking because Li Yuanwei, Chen Xinglian and other CBA leaders poured in at the door.

At the beginning of the A-League, more than half of the teams had military backgrounds, but it has developed over time, and now only Bayi is the only one left.

Sun Yue was even the first Chinese to become the best team in a foreign league.

The owner of the Magic City Dongfang Team said with emotion.

Chen Xinglian stood up and signaled to the surrounding people, who also burst into grand applause.

Naturally, the bosses didn't have much objection to this act of switching from left hand to right hand.

Nowadays, the wave of foreign aid continues to impact Bayi, a team with a long history and glory.

Chen Xinglian went on to say, "The new team name, logo, and team culture need to be established quickly to fully resonate with local citizens."

After all, the commercialization of the league will ultimately be beneficial to private enterprise owners like them. It’s just unclear how determined the basketball managers are to push it forward. Everyone in the know knows the potential resistance. It can be said that this commercialization is not very impressive.

Optimistic.

Those who didn’t know it thought it was a zoo from Africa.”

"Mr. Li, look at this, everyone has become a director of the CBA Board of Directors. This makes us very prestigious."

After the explanation, the owners of each team also expressed their support, and they just changed their names.

Although the team owners were skeptical, there was not much repulsion.

The meeting decided to maintain the status quo for the 2001-02 season, but many new policies will be adopted in the new season.

Everyone present was wearing a suit and leather shoes. Even Chen Xinglian, who couldn't tie a tie before, quickly learned to tie himself a blue tie today.

Among them, the boss of Aoshen made Chen Xinglian pay attention.

This strong NBA style also opened the eyes of the team owners. I didn't expect Mr. Chen to have so many tricks.

However, not everything goes as expected for Chen Xinglian.

For example, in terms of player management, Chen Xinglian originally planned to imitate the NBA, but Director Li insisted that everything be put under the unified management of the player department...

Obviously it's impossible for you to ask the basketball player to let go of this matter.
Chapter completed!