Vice President of Basketball Association: strive to cultivate more backbone for national three-person basketball in the super three League

In the 2022 season, the Chinese men’s triple Basketball Super League (hereinafter referred to as the super three League) ended in Haikou on the evening of 16th. The Shanghai Hengsha Yumin team won the season championship with a 16:15 victory over the Shanghai Jiushi team. Zhu Shaoyang, a member of Shanghai Hengsha Yumin, was elected as the most valuable player in the finals.

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Super three League is the highest level three-person basketball tournament held by deep basket Sports (Beijing) Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Basketball Association and sponsored by China Basketball Association. It is also following CBA, WCBA, after NBL, the fourth professional basketball game in China. Following the transitional season in 2021, the super three League officially entered the first year in the 2022 season. Since the start of this season on August 4, 16 teams have moved to five cities, namely Zhangjiagang, Chongqing, Chengdu, Texas and Lijiang. After 4 months and 11 rounds, finally, 12 teams were decided to join Haikou and compete for the championship.

The three-person basketball project is currently in a vigorous development stage in China. Xu Jicheng, vice chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association, said: “Looking back on the whole season, we found that the three-person basketball has great potential, even under the epidemic, it was also supported by local governments and welcomed by fans. Especially the opening ceremony in Zhangjiagang and the closing ceremony in Haikou attracted a large number of audiences to stop and watch. The super three League is an open and shared stage. I hope more teenagers will join in it in the future.”

After the three-person basketball officially became Olympic sports programme, the super triple competition sent players such as Yan Peng, Zheng Yi, Zhu Shaoyang and Guo Hanyu to the national teams at all levels. At the Tokyo Olympics last year, the Chinese three-man basketball team was the only three big-ball sports men’s team to advance to the Olympic Games.

Speaking of the future development of the super three league matches, Yan Xiaoming, general manager of deep basketball Sports, said: “In the future, the super three league matches will continue to strengthen systematic construction and sustainable development, while providing a stage for players with dreams, strive to cultivate more backbone for the national three-person basketball.”

(WEN/Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Meng)