CBA is the Chinese men’s basketball professional league.
1. Introduction
The Chinese Men’s Basketball Professional League, referred to as the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA), is a multi-year home and away basketball league sponsored by the Chinese Basketball Association. It is the highest level in China. Basketball League, in which stars such as Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi, Yi Jianlian, Zhu Fangyu and others were born.
The CBA obtained the naming rights of the league from 555 Cigarettes in the 1995-1996 season. From the 1996-1997 season to the 2000-2001 season, it was the Hilton China Men's Basketball League A. After that, Motorola and China Unicom New Space obtained the league's naming rights respectively. Naming rights, the league was officially renamed the China Men's Basketball Professional League in 2005, with a total of 20 CBA teams.
2. Historical Champions
CBA sets up pre-season, regular season and playoffs, which are roughly held from October each year to May of the following year. The winning team of the CBA Finals Won the CBA championship that season. As of the 2022-2023 season, 7 teams in the NBA have won the championship.
The Guangdong Hongyuan South China Tigers Club has won the championship 11 times, the Bayi Men’s Basketball Team has won the championship eight times, the Beijing Shougang Basketball Club and the Liaoning Shenyang Sansheng Feibao Basketball Club have won the championship three times each, and the Xinjiang Guanghui Flying Tigers Club has won the championship 11 times. , Shanghai Oriental Sharks Club and Sichuan Jinqiang Blue Whale Club each won one championship.
CBA’s trophies and competition venues:
1. Trophies
The Chinese Men’s Basketball Professional League championship trophy-"Mou Zuoyun Cup" is commissioned by the Chinese Basketball Association Wei Changhai, a master of Chinese arts and crafts and the master of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games logo "China Seal" and the giant seal "China Treasure Mirror", began to produce the championship trophy for the CBA League at the end of 2004.
Dai Mengde selected a top-grade jadeite from Myanmar weighing 3.8 tons, and after 4 months made it into the world's first jadeite championship trophy - the "Chinese Basketball Supreme Tripod". The Chinese Basketball Association named the trophy after Chinese basketball legend Mou Zuoyun.
2. Game ball
Starting from the 2009-2010 season, Nike has fully sponsored the Chinese Men’s Basketball Professional League ball. The lines on both sides of the ball body are made clear, thereby reducing the interference of the ball on the hand, which is helpful for athletes to quickly adjust and complete shooting after catching the ball; the composite cortex composed of microfibers provides the ball with a soft and fitting touch.
The wide-side strip design helps fingers grasp different parts of the ball, improving athletes' accuracy in catching, passing, and shooting; the deepened particle treatment ensures that the ball skin maintains good adhesion to the hand for a long time and Touch. In June 2012, Li Ning Company signed a contract to become the equipment sponsor of the Chinese Men's Basketball Professional League for the five seasons from 2012 to 2017.