Guangsha faces the problem of choosing 2 or 1 after winning the championship? Wang Bo should have a headache again: Do you give up the AFC gold medal for the National Games?

After winning the CBA championship, Guangsha and Wang Bo faced a difficult problem. As the CBA championship team, they will automatically qualify for the 2025 Asian Basketball Championship League. However, due to the conflict between the AFC Champions League and the National Games qualifying round, Wang Bo will most likely give up participating in the AFC Champions League and lead the team to the National Games qualifying round. In this way, Guangsha will most likely choose to let the youth team or the second team play. If this is true, then Guangsha will lose a series of consecutive Asian Championships.

The start time of the AFC Champions League this time is scheduled for June 7-13, and this period of time overlaps with the National Games qualifiers. Guangsha is a huge main player this year. They will represent the Sichuan team, including Hu Jinqiu, Sun Minghui and others. Moreover, Zhou Qi from Beijing team will also join the Sichuan team and join forces with Guangsha Three Young Masters to win the championship. It can be said that at the National Games, Sichuan team was the biggest favorite to compete for the championship this year - no one. It is reported that Wang Bo will also serve as the head coach of the Sichuan team and lead the team to the National Games gold medal.

And on the AFC Champions League, although it is a once-in-a-lifetime training opportunity. However, for Guangsha, it is unlikely that all their main players will participate in the AFC Champions League. On the one hand, several major foreign players, Brown, Carlton, Nate, Nonali, etc., will go home one after another, and it is likely that they will not represent the team in the AFC Champions League. Secondly, Hu Jinqiu, Sun Minghui and others have National Games tasks, and they are not able to escape for the time being. According to the CBA's usual practice, Guangsha will most likely send a youth team or a second team to play this time.

As we all know, since the 1981 AFC Champions League, a total of 5 teams in the CBA have participated in the AFC Champions League, namely Bayi, Liaoning, Guangdong, Xinjiang, and Beijing Aoshen. Guangsha became the sixth team to participate in the AFC Champions League. In addition, Liaoning, Bayi and Ao Shen have all won the AFC Champions League. However, in the past decade, with the decline in Asian basketball dominance, the CBA has not paid much attention to the AFC Champions League. The championship teams of each year basically send youth teams or second teams to play, and their record is also a mess.

The last time the CBA team won the AFC Champions League was the Xinjiang team in 2016, which has been 9 years since then. Moreover, in 2017, the Xinjiang team participated in the AFC Champions League again and they also won the runner-up. After Xinjiang team, the CBA champion team lost more than wins in the AFC Champions League. Like last year's champion team Liaoning, they sent a substitute lineup, and Zhao Jiwei, Han Dejun, Li Xiaoxu, Zhang Zhenlin and other main players were all absent. The team only achieved a record of 1 win and 2 losses in the AFC Champions League, including a 43-point defeat in the group stage, and unfortunately failed to advance to the knockout stage.

In fact, in recent years, many experts have called on CBA teams to participate in international competitions as much as possible, which can also narrow the gap between local players and international players. However, on this issue, CBA teams are still relatively conservative. Even with the opportunity to engage with top Asian clubs, most CBA teams will give up these once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. Moreover, this time of the AFC Champions League conflicts with the National Games qualifying time. According to normal thinking, Wang Bo and the others will most likely give up the opportunity to compete for the AFC Champions League and instead devote more energy to the National Games qualifying round.