Lee Dae-sung to Samsung in professional basketball

Lee Dae-sung, who went abroad to grow and challenge, returned to Korean professional basketball after a year.

Samsung in Seoul announced on the 21st that it has recruited Lee Dae-sung through a free contract (FA).

The period is two years, and the total remuneration for the first year is 600 million won. Among them, the incentive is 180 million won.

Lee Dae-sung and Samsung will hold a press conference at the KBL Center in Gangnam-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the 22nd.

At the meeting, it is expected to explain various controversies in the FA market, including the reason for ending the challenge in a year.

Lee Dae-sung is a guard who boasts league-class skills, ranking first in scoring among domestic players for two consecutive seasons.

In the 2022-2023 season, he played in 51 regular league games as a member of the Daegu Korea Gas Corporation, averaging 18.1 points and showing the best scoring ability among domestic players.

In the 2021-2022 season when he played for Goyang Orion, he was also the No. 1 player among domestic players with 17 points.

He even held a press conference saying he wanted to leave Korea, saying he wanted "competition and growth," but when negotiations were not smooth, he turned to Japan's B League.

As a member of the Asian quarter, he joined Shihosu Mikawa of Japan and averaged 7.2 points, 2.5 rebounds, and 1.9 assists in the regular league this season.

Lee Dae-sung's transfer to Samsung made the Korea Gas Corporation, the "former team," feel sad.

Korea Gas Corporation, which respected Lee Dae-sung's commitment to challenge in the course of overseas expansion, gave up the right to renew the contract. The company did not withhold the right to a player through voluntary termination and completely freed him.

If Lee Dae-sung moved to a domestic club last year, Korea Gas Corporation could receive 200% of the remuneration (1.1 billion won) or a bundle of compensation players and compensation (275 million won).

The Korea Gas Corporation claims that Lee Dae-sung believed Lee Dae-sung's remarks that he would compete on the overseas stage for at least two years and released them as FA.

However, as Lee Dae-sung made a "U-turn," he changed his team in Korea in a year, and Korea Gas Corporation did not receive any compensation.

At the FA briefing session held at the KBL Center on the 8th, Chung Yi-in, the secretary-general of the Korea Gas Corporation, said, "It is not easy to just let him go like this. Lee Dae-sung also has his actions and career that he has shown all his life, and I don't know if he will do that."   토토사이트

Kim Hyo-beom, who officially took the helm of Samsung last month, is widely known in the basketball world as a close friend of Lee Dae-sung.

Samsung, which only had 14 wins and 40 losses in the 2023-2024 season, ranked at the bottom for the third consecutive season for the first time in professional basketball history.