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The CBA new season is facing major changes! Liaoning Basketball Team may become the biggest beneficiary: But the Guangdong team suffered a big loss?

7:28pm, 19 September 2025Basketball

CBA is currently in the offseason, but there has been a big news recently. According to people familiar with the matter, the CBA may follow the footsteps of FIBA ​​in the new season and implement a 10-minute single-quarter competition system. Once the CBA is really connected with the International Basketball Team next season, it will still have a great impact on many players and teams. For the Liaoning team, which is an average older, they are the biggest beneficiaries of this new rule. However, teams like the Guangdong team, which have mostly young players, may suffer losses.

As we all know, in the past few years, the CBA has been in line with the NBA league, adopting a 48-minute game system, that is, a 12-minute game system per quarter. However, in the FIBA ​​game, they adopted a 40-minute match system, that is, a 10-minute match system per quarter. In the past few years, there have been endless rhetoric about the alignment between the CBA and the FIBA ​​games. However, there are actually two statements about the connection between the CBA league and the International Basketball Team. Supporters believe that this way the CBA league can be connected with the International Basketball Team and take advantage of the growth of local players. However, some opponents said that domestic players will have fewer opportunities to exercise.

Actually, both of these statements have their own reasons. Once the CBA really adopts a 10-point single-quarter game system, teams like Liaoning, which are mostly veterans, will actually take advantage. As we all know, the Liaoning team is one of the teams with the most veterans in the new season. Li Xiaoxu, Zhao Jiwei and Morand are all veterans, and they are also the main players that the team cannot play. If 2 minutes are reduced per quarter, 8 minutes will be reduced after one game, which is indeed a great benefit for teams with an average age.

However, on the other hand, it is indeed not a good thing for a team like Guangdong team, which is mostly young. As we all know, Guangdong is one of the youngest teams in the new season. The main players such as Xu Jie and Hu Mingxuan are all in their prime, and Cui Yongxi, Jiao Boqiao, Chen Jiazheng, Wang Hongze and others are even rising stars. For these young players, they lack everything, but what they do not lack is energy and physical fitness. Now that there are 8 minutes missing in a game, players who have fewer chances to appear are even less likely to show up.

In addition, there is another thing that must be said that the CBA still allows registration of 4 foreign players at the same time in the new season, which means that a team can register at least 4 foreign players at the same time in one game. The current foreign players rule is 7 people in 4 quarters. In other words, most of the time, the CBA is a game dominated by foreign players. If a game is 48 minutes, local players may be able to gain more time on the field. But once it is compressed to 40 minutes, local players will have no chance to perform. Especially for young players, their appearance time may be further compressed.

Judging from the integration with the FIBA ​​game alone, this major change in the new season of the CBA seems to be very favorable, so local players will become more familiar with the rhythm of the FIBA ​​game. But from a long-term perspective, the CBA practice is actually very unfavorable to the growth of local players, especially young players. In the past two seasons, after the CBA opened up foreign players, the appearance time of local players has been compressed. Nowadays, the game time is going to be reduced again, which is indeed a huge blow to domestic players.

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