Should China men’s basketball use naturalized players? Recently, this topic has aroused heated discussion again on the Internet.

As for the competition rules of international competitions such as the Olympic Games and the basketball World Cup, especially the qualifying rules, China’s main rivals in Asia Men’s basketball are Japan, South Korea and Philippines, these countries all have corresponding policies of domestication of players, and they all have rich experience and lessons, which are worthy of in-depth study by Chinese men’s basketball to make correct decisions.

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Japanese model

League training environment, club salary

Japan does not allow dual nationality, especially foreign players without Japanese ancestry. If they want to naturalize, they must give up their original nationality and need to live in Japan for more than 5 consecutive years.

This blocked the foreign players who wanted to apply for Japan national team by signing the contract, and the foreign players who took their butts when the contract expired.

Restricted by the nationality law, the Japanese Basketball Association has found another way to establish an environment for cultivating naturalized players.

The special rules for the use of naturalized players in the Japanese league began with NBL in 2015 and can be divided into three stages as a whole–

Phase 1 (2015~2017): each team allows one naturalized player to occupy the quota of foreign aid, but is not limited by the use of 4 sections and 6 people of foreign aid, therefore, whether to use naturalized players does not affect the balance of strength between teams.

Stage 2 (2018-2020): naturalized players no longer occupy foreign aid quota, and the playing time is completely unlimited like local players, resulting in a sharp increase in the number of naturalized players, the number of 8 players in the past three years rose to 20-Nick feizecas, Garvin edwardz, Ryan Rossett and other players with good strength and living in Japan for more than five years, all began to taste the sweetness of domestication.

Stage 3 (2020-present): The number of players qualified for domestication cannot meet the needs of all teams, so the introduction of Asian foreign aid policy is a useful supplement.

In a word, the Japanese model is that the alliance establishes rules to allow clubs to compete freely.

The advantage of this model is that the alliance has cultivated an environment to attract naturalized players. The club bears the salary of naturalized players, while the national team does not have to pay extra domestication fees.

However, the result of a large number of domestication is that the strength of these naturalized players is uneven-not only the main players of the national team such as feizecas, Edwards and Rossett, but also Luke Evans, there are also many unknown naturalized players in the national team such as Ella Brown and Nika Williams, whose strength is even inferior to that of Japanese local players.

In addition to the period of resident limit, many powerful foreign aid have been over 35 years old when they meet the domestication qualification.

Korean model

Luo jianer is regarded as KBL common property

Foreigners must give up their original nationality if they want to enter Korean nationality, and they have to perform military service after being naturalized. However, since 2010, such people are allowed to hold dual nationality: Overseas senior talents, married immigrants, overseas compatriots over 65 years old.

The revision of Korean nationality law does not target any industry or industry, while KBL believes that naturalized players and mixed-race players returning overseas belong to the joint property of the alliance and not any club.

To play KBL, naturalized and mixed-race players must pass the special draft and participate in the draft again after a team has played for three years.

Take Luo jianer as an example. In his special talent show after domestication in 2018, only Seoul SK Knight, Quanzhou KCC and Ulsan modern Apollo participated in it. Finally, Ulsan was selected, but in the second year, it was traded to the whole state, and the latter stayed in the whole state for the following two years.

In KBL, Luo jianer’s situation is very embarrassing-if regarded as a local player, it will destroy the balance of strength of the League; But if regarded as a foreign aid, there are not many teams willing to choose him.

Therefore, KBL has set a special clause for Luo jianer, that is, the club selected by Luo jianer can still sign two foreign aid, but the foreign aid salary cap is 100000 dollars less than other clubs.

In other words, KBL foreign aid salary cap is 650000 dollars, while the team with Luo jianer has only 550000 dollars for foreign aid salary cap.

Due to the existence of various restrictions, plus Luo jianer’s annual salary of 500000 dollars is enough to sign NBA-level players, only the old boss in the whole state is willing to accept Luo jianer in the 2020-2021 season when he reparticipates in the draft.

Rumor has it that all 10 KBL clubs have reached a consensus privately that Luo jianer can be regarded as a complete local player after the expiration of his two third-year contract in 2024, but at that time, he is 35 years old……

Philippine model

Naturalized players are only mercenaries of the national team.

The Philippines, like the United States, belongs to an immigrant country and allows dual nationality. Therefore, the immigration threshold of the Philippines is relatively low:

Foreigners need to live in the Philippines for more than 10 years before they can be naturalized normally. However, in this country where basketball is crazy, foreign players can quickly complete domestication as long as they pass special proposals from members of Congress and sign by the president.

For example, naturalized players such as André Bratch and Marcus Dorset are directly naturalized through special processes.

In recent years, the Philippines has continuously plus-sized the strength of naturalizing players, but whether these players are regarded as local in professional venues depends on the situation–

The first category is a player born in the Philippines and has Philippine nationality, which is regarded as a local player.

The second category is a mixed-race player whose parents have Philippine nationality but are not born in Philippines. Whether they get their passports before the age of 16 or not, as long as they have Philippine descent, they will be regarded as Filipino foreigners by PBA, and each team can have 7 Filipino foreigners with unlimited playing time.

The third category is naturalized players without Philippine ancestry, which are all regarded as foreign aid.

Since PBA is only allowed to use foreign aid in the Committee Cup and the Governor’s Cup and has strict height restrictions on foreign aid, the Philippine Cup is the core of PBA, as a result, tall players like Dorset and Bratch cannot play for PBA and can only look for opportunities in other Asian leagues.

Therefore, for the Philippines, naturalized players are only the mercenaries of the national team in the international competition; Accordingly, the Philippine Basketball Association has to pay expensive naturalized fees.

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