Even after the season is over, there’s no respite in professional basketball. The 10-team league is in the midst of a turbulent offseason, with long-standing academic issues bubbling to the surface amid fears that the system may collapse. Goyang Day One and Daegu Korea Gas Corporation, which acquired and recreated their clubs in the first year, are at the center.
The survival of Day One, which is up for sale after just one year of ownership, is being watched closely by the entire professional basketball world.
After acquiring the Goyang Orion and recreating it after the 2021-2022 season, Day One entered the KBL with the first naming rights sponsorship program in professional basketball, but it was not fully trusted from the time it was approved. In the end, parent company Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, which acted as a kind of “insurance” at the time, went into receivership shortly after the season began, and the club’s financial difficulties became severe, and money-related issues such as delayed payment of membership fees and delinquent player wages followed them throughout the season. No progress was made in selling the team.
With no resolution, the KBL decided to wait until the 15th to hold an extraordinary general meeting and board meeting at 7am on the 16th to decide whether to expel Day One from the KBL. Unless the organization resolves all of its outstanding salaries and provides a convincing explanation of how it will operate in the future, the KBL plans to dissolve the organization. The league has never expelled a team before.
Day One has a head coach, Kim Seung-ki, who has recently been elevated to the status of “mastermind,” and players such as Jeon Sung-hyun and Lee Jung-hyun who represent the league. If the team were to be expelled, both the players and staff would be scattered into the air without being paid. On the 2nd, some fans held a truck protest in front of the KBL headquarters to hold the KBL accountable for neglecting the Day One situation.
Korea Gas Corporation, which acquired Incheon Electronic Land a year earlier than Deewon and then moved to Daegu to recreate the team, has been in the center of attention for its personnel issues. On March 1, the organization terminated the contracts of head coach Yoo Yoo-hoon, general manager Shin Seung-woo, and general manager Lee Min-hyung and announced a new regime.
The KOGAS basketball team has been called the definitive version of ‘Hakyeon basketball’. This is because under the previous president, Chae Hee-bong, who was also a Yongsan High School graduate, the head coach, general manager, and head coach were recruited from Yongsan High School. While Yongsan alumni have been dominating the basketball world for a very long time, KOGAS has been criticized for blatantly becoming more powerful. Creating an additional general manager position above the head coach, changing the rules of the organization, and hiring a basketball coach from outside were all interpreted as taking care of alumni.메이저놀이터
After the season ended, KOGAS dismissed them all at once. It was a de facto recognition of the parachutists who had remained silent in the face of uncomfortable gazes.
All three were still under contract, but were dismissed after failing to reach an agreement on their remaining salaries. The possibility of a court battle has been cautiously raised.