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The AFC Champions League has become a useless game! The CBA team participates in the competition purely to deal with tasks. If you don’t pay attention to it, you can give up the right

7:35pm, 10 June 2025【Football】

As early last year, after winning the CBA championship, the Liaoning Men's Basketball Team received a ticket to enter the AFC Champions League directly. Faced with such an opportunity to play against many top Asian teams, the Liaoning Men's Basketball Team did not pay attention to it. During this period, they were basically all role players. The two foreign players, Rice and Gilmore, were also temporary workers. This year's new CBA champion Guangsha Men's Basketball Team, also got the opportunity to participate in the AFC Champions League again.

However, Guangsha also does not pay attention to this useless event. Several main players, Sun Minghui, Zhao Yanhao and Hu Jinqiu, all went to the National Games to make a lot of money. Although Guangsha also brought three foreign players, Nanali, Brown and Knight, among the local players, only Xu Zhonghao is slightly more famous. In the first match of the AFC Champions League group stage, facing the Mongolian League champion Ulaanbaatar Mustangs, Guangsha lost 67-84. FMVP Brown made 12 shots and 0 of 9 three-pointers, with only 4 points. However, this is obviously not Brown's true level, and everyone can understand Brown's sluggishness.

According to media person Fu Zhenghao, although the AFC Champions League increased the total prize to US$4 million last year, the championship prize was only 500,000. Even if the promotion and winning prizes were added, the champion could only get US$580,000, which was equivalent to more than 4 million yuan. This bonus was obviously not attractive. You should know that when CBA teams go abroad to play games, the travel expenses add up to a lot, and the AFC Champions League is just over the end of the CBA season, and this year it will meet the National Games again. This time, many of Guangsha's main players, even coach Wang Bo, were absent. Why should we expect a foreign player to fight to the death? The club itself does not pay attention to it, so don't blame Brown for the paddling here.

In recent years, the CBA league has indeed had some "entertainment" meaning. Not only has the quality of foreign players declined sharply, but the local referees' calls have been criticized. In the past two years, foreign referees have been basically hiring to swear. This opportunity to play against top teams in other professional leagues in Asia is in front of you, but Guangsha wasted this opportunity in vain and went to play a useless National Games game, which is really sad.

No surprise, in this AFC Champions League, Guangsha team is the runner-up again. After playing three group matches, their trip to Dubai is probably over. If the CBA continues to ignore such opportunities, in fact, the AFC Champions League can be announced to abstain instead of wasting such a place. Of course, from another aspect, the organizers of the AFC Champions League should also make a time adjustment to this event. If you can hold such a game before the start of the leagues of various countries and increase the prize money of the game again, it should be paid attention to by many teams. However, basically this event is around June every time. In addition to the leagues in West Asia, the East Asian leagues may still be in progress. These East Asian leagues have basically ended and the main players have left, so the viewing of the game will naturally be greatly reduced.