The birth and significance of the Supreme Ding At first, the trophy of the CBA championship was not the Supreme Ding, but a golden cup. Since 2005, chinese basketball association has introduced Supreme Ding with more China characteristics. As the champion trophy of CBA league, the official name of Supreme Ding in CBA is "China Basketball Supreme Ding". Its real name is "Mou Zuoyun Cup" to commemorate Mr. Mou Zuoyun, the pioneer and founder of basketball in China. In recognition of Mou Zuoyun's contribution to basketball in China, the Basketball Association named the highest champion of CBA League Cup after Mou Zuoyun in 2005.
Ding is of great significance to China basketball. There is only one ding. It is reported that a piece of jadeite with a weight of 3.8 tons was selected as wool, which was carefully crafted by top masters for four months. The style imitated Fang Ding, a national treasure-level junior minister, and implied supreme domineering.
The Supreme Ding is 45 cm high and weighs about 10 kg. Its bottom is a square with a side length of 22 cm. The words "China Basketball Supreme Ding" and "CBA Champion Mou Zuoyun Cup" are engraved on the front of the base, and the new logo of "Basketball Face" of CBA and the league promotion slogan "Creating the Supreme Glory and Embedding the Champion Dream" are on the back of the base. Every season, the name of the champion team of CBA league will be engraved on the side of Supreme Ding.
Since the champion team of CBA league every season will be engraved on Supreme Ding, why is only Guangdong Hongyuan team engraved? When Liaoning men's basketball team won the Ding this season, some media and fans noticed a detail, that is, the name of Liaoning team was not engraved on the Supreme Ding, and there were no other teams that won the championship in the past, only the name of Guangdong Hongyuan team. What's going on here?
At first, after the Supreme Ding was made, the winning team could not only own the Supreme Ding for one year, but also carve the name of the champion team. But two seasons later, CBA cancelled the practice of engraving names on the Supreme Ding, mainly for two reasons.
The first reason is that the space of the Supreme Ding is limited. If the name of the champion team of CBA every season is engraved on the Supreme Ding, it will be full in the future, and there will be no place to engrave it.
The second reason is that the material of Supreme Ding is the best jade. If the name of the champion team is engraved every year, it may be detrimental to the Supreme Ding.
To this end, CBA later cancelled the stipulation of engraving the name on the Supreme Ding. Guangdong Hongyuan won the CBA championship twice in 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 respectively, and these two seasons happened to be the two seasons when Supreme Ding was born, so the name of Guangdong Hongyuan was carved. Since then, CBA has stipulated that the name of the winning team cannot be engraved on the Supreme Ding, which is why there is only the name of Guangdong Hongyuan team on the Supreme Ding, and there are no names of other winning teams, including Liaoning team, which won the championship this season.