The Liaoning team has always given the audience the impression of being very poor, but great changes have taken place in recent years. The Liaoning team is becoming more and more wealthy. Being able to sign a powerful foreign player like Simmons will fundamentally change the overall strength of the team and bring the Liaoning team to a new level. As a player, Li Hongqing The team general manager can be considered to have played his best role and value. He was able to facilitate this deal and saw Li Hongqing's methods.

Simmons is a player on the Magic Magic. His highest salary in the NBA is US$7 million. The tax rate in the United States is higher than that in China, and the actual salary he can get is less than half of the 7 million. The CBA League has strict regulations and requirements on the salary of foreign players. The total salary of all foreign players in each team cannot exceed 7 million. Mayo performed very well last season. Her salary last year was 300,000, and this year his salary has been increased to about 1 million. Mayo deserved such a considerable salary, and he conquered the Liaoning team management with his performance on the court and basketball prowess.

In recent years, the Liaoning team has put a lot of effort and effort into introducing foreign players, and also spent a lot of material wealth. Hudson, Stephenson, and Buss are all players who have made their names in the NBA and have stood on the top of world basketball. Last year, the Liaoning team signed Stephenson with a sky-high contract of 4 million. However, they did not expect that Stephenson's performance was so poor that he could not adapt to the CBA league and truly integrate into the Liaoning team's system. This season, the Liaoning team also decided to Give up Stephenson and choose to keep Mayo.

The Liaoning team chose Simmons in order to make up for the team's lack of forward height. The biggest failure of the Liaoning team in last year's finals was that the forward players could not stop Wilms' attack. Wilms' outstanding performance also successfully won the finals MVP.