Professional basketball player Lee Dae-sung
Lee Dae-sung, who went abroad to grow and challenge, returned to Korean professional basketball after a year.
Samsung in Seoul announced today (21st) that it has recruited Lee Dae-sung as a free agent.
The period is two years, and the total remuneration for the first year is 600 million won, of which the incentive is 180 million won.
Lee Dae-sung is a guard who boasts the best skills in the league, ranking first 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 in the country 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 an Asian quarter member, he joined Shihosu Mikawa of Japan, averaging 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 willingness to challenge in the process of overseas expansion, gave up the right to renew the contract.
He completely released the right to the player without withholding the right to the player through voluntary termination.
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 it 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 for his close relationship with Lee Dae-sung.
With a record of 14 wins and 40 losses in the 2023-2024 season, Samsung remained at the bottom for the third consecutive season for the first time in professional basketball history.