He is the CBA version of Li Yueru! Give up a high salary of 6 million a year: he only earns 16,000 a month when he travels to Europe?

In the past few years, Li Yueru has been working for a high-paying job with 4 million yuan while lying down and has gone to overseas leagues to "work for a short-term job", which has once become the focus of hot discussions in the outside world. Nowadays, the CBA League also has its own "Li Yueru". Yu Jiahao, a talented center in Zhejiang men's basketball team, did not make a profit after paying millions of dollars, but went to Europe to do dirty work, earning a meager 2,000 euros a month. The huge gap in income at home and abroad was once completely incomprehensible. After all, with Yu Jiahao's current state, if he imitates Wang Zhelin and stays in the domestic league for a few more years, he can sign a maximum salary of 6 million yuan.

As one of the most promising big men in the CBA, he was born in 2003 and is only 22 years old this year. In terms of age alone, Yu Jiahao is still very young. However, as a "veteran" in the CBA, Yu Jiahao has been playing for Zhejiang team for four seasons. Last season, he averaged 13.5 points and 8.9 rebounds per game. Judging from his personal data alone, Yu Jiahao has entered the ranks of top domestic centers in the CBA. However, compared with top big men like Zhou Qi, Hu Jinqiu, and Yang Hansen, Yu Jiahao does have room for improvement.

In fact, since the past two years, Yu Jiahao has realized that if he plays in the domestic CBA league, his room for improvement is very limited. After all, there are not many truly excellent big men in the domestic league. If he plays with players or foreign players, they will return to the NBA again. Last year, Yu Jiahao had the idea of leaving the CBA. However, due to various reasons, Yu Jiahao was ultimately unable to play in the European League. After the contract with Zhejiang team expired this year, after negotiations between the two sides, Yu Jiahao finally decided to play in the European League.

However, Yu Jiahao's salary is not high when playing in the Spanish League Two. According to people familiar with the matter, after Yu Jiahao joined the European League, his monthly salary was actually very low, only about 2,000 euros. If it were RMB, it would be only about 16,000 yuan. The salary is almost the same as that of ordinary working people in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. As a top CBA star, Yu Jiahao's salary in the European League is really shocking. Some fans even joked that Yu Jiahao was just a high salary, but he didn't have to endure hardships and insisted on going to Europe to find hardships.

However, Yu Jiahao is very open to the outside world's doubts. In his opinion, if he stays in the CBA, his salary and treatment will definitely be better than playing in the European League. However, this is not all about money. Obviously, in Yu Jiahao's view, what he values most at the moment is to improve himself. After all, if he makes a name for himself like Yang Hansen, his value will definitely rise. Moreover, as a 23-year-old player, it is also a very good choice to leave his comfort zone for a short time and go to overseas leagues to practice.

Just like Li Yueru of the women's basketball team, as the number one center of the women's basketball team, she could have rested her mind in the WCBA League with a high salary, but two years ago, Li Yueru resolutely gave up the high salary of 4 million and joined the European League. Nowadays, she travels between the Turkish League and the WNBA every year. Although her income seems to be worse than that in the domestic WCBA league, Li Yueru's progress in the past two years is indeed obvious to all. In the 2022 World Cup, Li Yueru was still Han Xu's substitute, but now, she has already left Han Xu apart.