CBA News: Excitement Builds as China’s Annual Basketball All-Star Weekend Kicks Off

CBA·News | All-Star time is here!China’s annual basketball “carnival” kicks off

Dongguan+ 2024-03-01 22:22:49

As a “intensive warm-up” before the third stage of the 2023/2024 CBA regular season, and as the annual “carnival” in the Chinese basketball field, the 2024 CBA All-Star Weekend kicked off today (March 1) in Xiamen, Fujian. All-star players, college players and specially invited players from each team are in place one after another. In the next two days, individual competitions such as the Star Game, the main game, skills challenge, dunk contest, and three-point shooting contest will begin.

After previous voting by fans, media and CBA head coaches, all candidates for various activities including the All-Star starting lineup have been determined. Among them, Hongyuan men’s basketball players Hu Mingxuan, Zhou Qi, Xu Jie, Zhang Wenyi and Huang Mingyi, who are familiar to Dongguan fans, , as well as Cui Yongxi, He Xining, Chen Guohao, Lu Jianhao, Zhou Zeyuan, Shao Weiyun, Shi Kui, Wen Song, Lu Jun, Lai Yiye and others who came from Dongguan campus basketball. Expanding the scope of radiation to a larger area, including Zhao Rui who will transfer and leave the team this season, Liu Weihao and Yu Guanglong who will serve as coaches of the college team, and Qiu Biao, coach of the North District Star Team, are all directly related to Dongguan Basketball. It is quite familiar to Dongguan fans.

According to the arrangements of the CBA League, today is the player registration day for this All-Star Weekend. Chinese basketball players gathered in Xiamen. Since the 2023 All-Star Weekend will also be held in Ludao, everyone is familiar with it this time. Amid the focus of the media, roundtable interviews were conducted in the evening as usual, with the starting players of the North and South District Star Team and representatives of other projects participating. In the next two days, the players will appear in a relaxed and happy state of mind. Head coach Djordjevic, who just led the Chinese men’s basketball team to conclude the Asian Cup qualifiers, also went to the All-Star scene.

Among them, Zhou Qi and Hu Mingxuan, who are the starters of this year’s Southern District Star Team, were interviewed together. The two people were quite relaxed at the scene. Zhou Qi once again explained the reason for changing his hair color: “New Year, New Beginning…” Although He did not participate in the centralized interview, but as the champion of the 2023 All-Star Weekend Skills Competition, Xu Jie also has a “special mission” this time – in addition to being shortlisted for the Southern District Star Team, he will continue to compete in the skills competition, and his goal is naturally to defend his title. He had started special training before departure. Among Xu Jie’s opponents, Shi Kui (pictured above), a native of Dongguan, and Lai Yiye, a graduate of Guangming Middle School, are no strangers to Dongguan fans.

In terms of the event schedule, there will be two All-Star Xingrui games on March 2. The CBA Xingrui first-year team will play against the Tsinghua University basketball team at 15:45, and the CBA Xingrui second-year team will play against college students at 19:15. For the joint team, the preliminaries of each individual event will begin at 21:00 to determine the promotion quotas. Starting at 19:00 on March 2, this year’s All-Star Game and individual event finals will be held.

Text: Wang Chenzheng Picture: Liang Junfeng (from Xiamen) Video: Liang Junfeng (from Xiamen) Editor: Guo Xiaobin

2024-03-02 10:08:14
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