Chinese basketball, rising Zhejiang s strength

012024-2025 CBA Finals, Zhejiang Guangsha won the professional basketball league championship for the first time, bringing a successful end to the basketball dreams of Hangzhou and Zhejiang. Guangsha Basketball has gone through 20 years of struggle and entered the finals four times to realize its dream.

02 Guangsha Club focuses on the construction of the youth training system, invests heavily in youth training, and trains national team players such as Sun Minghui and Hu Jinqiu. The youth training results have been remarkable, and it has become a CBA clear stream, proving that hard work is great wisdom.

03 Although Guangsha Basketball is not investing in high investment, it is professional in management and competitive training, hires celebrities to coach and introduces top foreign players. Taking youth training as the foundation, we will build a champion and show a model of small-scale business operations.

04 Guangsha basketball championship process is in line with Hangzhou's "trend player" spirit and has become a carrier of urban vitality and a symbol of cultural identity. Winning the championship has stimulated Hangzhou’s basketball enthusiasm and highlighted the potential of sports consumption, and basketball has become the city’s new business card.

05 Milestone figures such as Lin Zhijie witnessed the growth of Guangsha. The team is a city dream builder and the fans are dream chasers. Guangsha Basketball not only wins trophies, but also wins people's hearts and achieves the implementation of sports spirit.

The above content was generated by the communication model and DeepSeek, for reference only, and the final whistle sounded, and the Capital Stadium with more than 14,000 spectators became a "library", making the celebration scene of Zhejiang Guangsha players on the field particularly lively. Hu Jinqiu, Zhu Junlong, and Sun Minghui all cried with joy.

The curtain of the 2024-2025 CBA Finals fell, and Zhejiang Guangsha held up the professional basketball league trophy for the first time. For this day, Guangsha Basketball waited for twenty years, while Hangzhou and Zhejiang waited forth forth forth forth. The CBA League kicked off in 1995, and Zhejiang Zhongxin made a debut. In the past seven years, Zhejiang Chouzhou and Zhejiang Guangsha have entered the finals four times, and it was not until last night that their dream came true. The story goes back to the summer of 2005. When Shenmen's men's basketball team went south to Hangzhou, dressed up as Zhejiang Guangsha Men's Basketball Club, and settled at home in Hangzhou City Stadium on the Stadium Road, Hangzhou was moving from the West Lake era to the Qiantang River era. For Hangzhou people, this strange team adds a touch of color to life. Two nights a week during the league season, the roads of the stadium are congested, and the scalpers outside the stadium hold a knife ticket and shout to passers-by: Do you want the ticket?

No high expectations for the Guangsha team when they were invented - Zhejiang's basketball foundation is not strong, and Hangzhou fans are limited in enthusiasm. This city already has a professional team - Zhejiang Wanma (now Zhejiang Chouzhou Club). There are two derby games every year, and the players on the field are a little Mars, and the fans off the field are a little saliva, that's all.

What the outside world doesn't know is that Guangsha Club is quietly playing a big and long-term game. "Sports are the thermometer of urban civilization. We want to plant a towering tree for this city and reach the peak of the CBA as soon as possible." They built a training base in the north of the city and slowly set up a youth training system.

The brothers Sun Minghui, Hu Jinqiu, Zhu Junlong and Zhao Jiaren are the third generation of Guangsha basketball, all produced by Guangsha youth training in the north of the city. After graduating from junior high school, they came to Hangzhou from all over the world. After more than five or six years of carving and polishing, they entered the professional arena.

When CBA talent flow is loose and gold and gold basketball is on the rise, the hard work put in the Guangsha team in those years has proven to be great wisdom. The aliens back then are today. If the granaries are full, you know etiquette; if you have enough food and clothing, you know honor and disgrace. Now you want to recruit players of Hu Jinqiu and Sun Minghui in the talent market. The transfer fee and signing fee are often over 100 million yuan. Guangsha's investment in youth training for more than 20 million yuan each year is similar to small enterprises using more than 20% of their profits for research and development. Private clubs do not have provincial or national games tasks, and no peers do what Guangsha does. Some provincial teams play in the National Games and the three major sports games, and they also come to Guangsha to borrow troops.

Guangsha basketball's persistence has also encountered tests. The team's core players were reimbursed due to injury and repeatedly failed to reach the peak. The management has received many suggestions: "It's better to sell the team for money." "Anyway, Zhejiang people don't watch basketball", but Guangsha has not waver.

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chat with Guangsha players and coaches. They are very grateful that the club's management and operation are independent, and the team's technical and tactical matters are respected. From digging out young talents to introducing domestic and foreign aid, they are all handed over to the club's professionals. Leave professional matters to professionals. It is common sense to mature professional sports circles in Europe and the United States, but it is regarded as a fantasy by many professional football and basketball clubs in China. In the CBA, there are not many clubs like Guangsha that have a complete youth training system and training base, and there are even fewer private clubs that maximize productism and craftsmanism. In the CBA territory, Guangsha is a small-scale business, thrifty type, with an investment of 120 million yuan a year and a loss of about 60 million yuan. Last year, Dongyangguang was named 30 million. This year, Dongyangguang named the local Guangdong team. Guangsha team transformed into Fangxingdu, Zhejiang. Fangxingdu is the investor's own project, but in fact it is running naked.

The management of Guangsha Club and the professionalism and professionalism of team competition training are typical of the CBA. Spending money on the edge is their consistent philosophy. The head coaches they hired, Wang Fei and Li Chunjiang, are both meritorious figures in the Chinese basketball world. Among the foreign players they hired, there is the Nuggets starting player Chandler, the top foreign player in CBA history.

Guangsha Club is powerless in the player transfer market. When youth training coaches searched for basketball seedlings across the country, Guangsha has no advantage in terms of player promotion channels, player retirement and study.

But with this background, the Guangsha team has created the first championship team in Zhejiang Province. Sun Minghui is the number one defender in China today, Hu Jinqiu is the best power forward of the Chinese men's basketball team in the past ten years, and Zhu Junlong is a reliable wing three-D player of the national team. When they came to Guangsha training base, Sun Minghui's strongest point was dunking, Hu Jinqiu was as thin as a bamboo pole, and twins Zhao Jiaren and Jiayi were rejected by other clubs.

The three major balls carry the people’s yearning for a better life. As mass sports, it has a huge foundation; as a professional competition, it has strong ornamentality, high attention and huge commercial value. Football and basketball form a huge industrial chain, which involves the employment of hundreds of thousands or millions of people. Whether it is the Olympics or professional leagues, the influence of basketball and football is beyond the reach of most sports.

The Huanglong Stadium, which has nearly 8,000 seats, is hard to get a ticket to the semi-finals. Over the years, the ticket revenue of Guangsha team games has been almost negligible, with 30 million being earned this year. For a private club with a traditional industry background, this is a considerable number, highlighting the city of Hangzhou's huge enthusiasm for basketball and considerable sports consumption potential.

Guangsha won the championship and used its own professional sports IP to complete the implementation of the sports spirit. A city planning expert said: "If international events are the face of the city, then local professional teams are the inner part of the city - it turns sports from exhibitions in the window into necessities of citizens' lives."

As an international city with experience in Asian Games venue groups and event operation, Hangzhou has previously been unable to show the complete ecology of the "Sports Event Capital" due to the lack of top professional clubs. In the past month, watching Guangsha win the championship is the hottest topic among Hangzhou citizens, which means the deep binding between professional sports and urban identity. Basketball has become another city business card for Hangzhou after West Lake and the digital economy.

520 night Zhejiang Guangsha topped the CBA. In the narrative of Zhejiang basketball, this is a comma rather than a period. The old songs are sung well, and the light old days just slip away. When I turn back and take a look, I have been in a hurry. The vast road to the world is your wandering, and searching for and staying together forever is my footsteps.