The new CBA season is about to begin, and all teams are grinding in their lineups, making adjustments, and gearing up to do a big job in the new season. For a team to have a good record, it not only needs the quality of the players, but also the ability of the manager. At present, there are a total of 20 teams in the CBA, and more than half of the team coaches are post-80s, and there are only two foreign coaches, namely Eric Olsen of the Guangzhou team and Pero Cameron of the Ningbo team.
When it comes to the strength of the head coaches of each team in the new season, Yang Ming, the head coach of the Liaoning team who won three consecutive championships, can only rank second, Du Feng, the head coach of the Guangdong team of the 11-crown dynasty, is ranked third, and Qiu Biao, the best head coach of last season and the former head coach of the Xinjiang team and now the head coach of the Shandong high-speed men's basketball team, can't even enter the top five. Although rising stars such as Zhou Peng and Liu Wei are serving as head coaches of CBA teams for the first time, they are high-spirited, young and promising, and can also be ranked in the top ten of head coaches in the new season.
At the top of the list is former CBA championship coach Min Lulei, who also has the resounding nickname "Dongfang Popovich". Born in Beijing in 1963, Min Lulei began to represent Beijing Shougang in the A-League (the predecessor of CBA) in 1982, and became the head coach of Beijing Shougang after retiring in 1997. During her time as an athlete, Min Lulei played as a defender and was selected for the national team many times. During his tenure as head coach of Beijing Shougang, he won the CBA championship three times in 2011-12, 2013-14 and 2014-15, and the feat of three crowns in four years is rare among all CBA head coaches.
In September 2023, Min Lulei went to the Beijing Enterprises men's basketball team to become the head coach of the Beijing Enterprises men's basketball team. In the offseason, the Beijing Enterprises men's basketball team has made a major upgrade to the lineup, and the Beijing Enterprises men's basketball team will attack the finals and championships as a dark horse in the new season.
In second place is Yang Ming's guidance, needless to say that everyone knows that the recent Liaoning team's three consecutive championships were completed under the leadership of Yang Ming, the current Liaoning team's lineup is the strongest, and Yang Ming's guidance is also the hottest head coach in the CBA. In the offseason, the Liaoning team's foreign aid lineup has been greatly upgraded, and the new foreign players Achuer and Shayok are both famous basketball players from South Sudan, and their addition is bound to make the Liaoning team more powerful, and they are closer to the goal of four consecutive championships. Of course, Yang Ming's coaching ability is also remarkable, with diverse styles and decisive killing, such a young head coach is the best leader of the Liaoning team to glory.
In third place is the head coach of the Guangdong team, Du Feng, who was born in Urumqi, Xinjiang in 1981, joined the Guangdong Hongyuan Youth Team in 1996, and entered the first team of the Guangdong team in 1999 to officially announce his retirement in 2012. During his time as an athlete, Du Feng won a total of 7 championships with the Guangdong team, and won 1 finals FMVP. In 2013, Du Feng officially served as the head coach of the Guangdong team, and won the first championship trophy after coaching that season, and in 2019-2021, the Guangdong team won three consecutive championships under the leadership of Du Feng, and he himself was named the best head coach of the CBA for three consecutive years.
The 11 championships in the history of the Guangdong team are all related to Du Feng. During this period, Du Feng took over from Li Nan in 2019 and became the head coach of the men's national basketball team, and returned to the position of head coach of the Guangdong team after leaving in 2022.
In fourth place is the coach Xu Limin, who was born in Fushun, Liaoning Province in 1966 and has been working as a coach in the women's basketball team until May this year, when he officially became the head coach of the Beijing Shougang men's basketball team. From 2005 to 2017, Xu Limin coached the Beijing Shougang women's basketball team for 12 years, leading the team to win 3 WCBA championships and 2 runners-up; In 2017, Xu Limin left Beijing Shougang Women's Basketball Team to become the head coach of the women's national basketball team, in the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games, Xu Limin led the team to win the championship, and in the 2019 Women's Basketball Asian Cup, Xu Limin led the team to win the runner-up.
In January 2022, Xu Limin left the women's national basketball team and was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame (coach) in 2023. In the new season, he will lead the Beijing Shougang men's basketball team to the fourth championship in team history.
In fifth place should be Wang Shilong, the head coach of the Zhejiang team, and the sixth to tenth are Wang Bo of the Zhejiang Guangsha team, Liu Weiwei of the Qingdao team, Qiu Biao of the Shandong high-speed men's basketball team, Liu Wei of the Xinjiang team and Zhou Peng of the Shenzhen team.