China News Service, Beijing, October 26 (Wang Hao) In the fifth round of the new CBA season on the 25th, Guo Ailun finally appeared.
In the match between Liaoning and Xinjiang, he scored 28 points and helped Liaoning beat the opponent 109:99.
With his return to the game, the previously raging CBA "fine controversy" seems to have ended temporarily.
But despite this, there are still many unanswered questions in this intermittent turmoil involving star coaches and players for nearly a year.
Data map: Guo Ailun (white) dribbled the ball in the game.
Image source: ICphoto
Regarding why Guo Ailun did not play in the previous rounds, neither he nor the Liaoning team or CBA officials have made any public statements.
According to media reports, one is because Guo Ailun himself has some injuries, and the other is because the fines for equipment violations continued last season.
This turmoil will start in November last year. At that time, the CBA Alliance issued notices to clubs on the grounds of maintaining and enhancing the brand image while protecting the rights and interests of partners, reporting and handling more than 20 incidents of CBA league equipment violations.
The specific persons and amounts of the fines have not been announced. According to media reports, the fines involved star coaches and players such as Du Feng, Guo Ailun, and Hu Mingxuan.
Among them, Guo Ailun's penalty amount reached 1.15 million.
Even for a relatively high-income player like Guo Ailun, this is not a small number.
This time the ticket has caused a wave of controversy among fans. Although the CBA penalty does have rules to follow, whether it should be notified in time after the first violation of the rules to prevent re-offending, why it is suspected that other players have violated the rules but are not included in the penalty list, etc. The problem has caused a lot of discussion.
Data map: The 2020-2021 season CBA finals came to an end on the evening of May 1.
In the end, the Guangdong Men's Basketball Team defeated the Liaoning Men's Basketball Team 110:103 after overtime and won the CBA championship, which is also the eleventh championship in its team history.
The picture shows the Guangdong team in the game.
Image source: Osports All Sports Photo Agency
In an interview with the media at the time, CBA Alliance CEO Zhang Xiong also admitted that there were “oversights in handling timeliness and punishment methods.”
After that, some people who received the fine filed an appeal to the Union Disciplinary Committee and were accepted.
However, there is no news about the outcome of the complaint and the execution of the ticket.
Before the start of the season, this ticket was mentioned again.
According to media reports, the CBA reduced the fines of some players as appropriate, but many people still did not pay the fines.
As the Guangdong team had to participate in the opener to receive the championship ring, the club eventually paid part of the fine and paid the money.
Guo Ailun failed to pay the fine and could not play in the first few rounds of the new season.
Since then, Guo Ailun chose to pay the fine, but continued to appeal to the Basketball Association.
Data map: The 2020-2021 season CBA finals came to an end on the evening of May 1.
In the end, the Guangdong Men's Basketball Team defeated the Liaoning Men's Basketball Team 110:103 after overtime and won the CBA championship, which is also the eleventh championship in its team history.
The picture shows the Guangdong team in the game.
Image source: Osports All Sports Photo Agency
Of course, all these sources of information are media reports and industry insiders' revelations. Neither the CBA nor the involved coaches or players have released any information to the outside world.
This has also left some key questions unanswered until now, such as the standard for setting fines, the reasons for reducing the fines as appropriate, why they failed to warn them in time for "first offenses", and why there is a suspected "fish that slipped through the net" and so on.
However, with Guo Ailun's official debut, it seems that the fines controversy has temporarily come to an end.
From an optimistic point of view, the fines this time will definitely have a positive effect on cultivating the awareness of the rules of the entire league, and the protection of the rights and interests of sponsors also provides more convenient conditions for the subsequent commercial promotion of the league.
But from another perspective, it also shows that the current rules, procedures, etc. still need to be improved. This has caused not only some people who were fined to be unconvinced, but many fans also complained for them.
Data map: Dongguan, Guangdong, the first stage of the 19/20 CBA semifinals, Guangdong Hongyuan Vs Shanxi Fenjiu.
Image source: Visual China
As China's top basketball league, although CBA has a history of more than 20 years, the CBA company was only established in 2016, and the 2017-2018 season league only began to operate independently.
There is still a way to go to become a mature league like those top international professional leagues in all aspects.
Practices such as safeguarding the rights and interests of sponsors show that the league is indeed on the right path.
But how to take this road, we must pay attention to methods.
Whether it is the CBA league or the coaches and players involved, neither can escape their own mistakes, nor should they pay for the mistakes of others.
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