You're managing Jimmer's career and you for some reason get to call all the shots. Do you keep him in the CBA as the best player in China or do you tell him he needs to take his chances in the NBA? Assuming a team offers.
I think you'd have to weigh his immense popularity and branding in APAC and his impact if he was in the NBA.
Sometimes I think it's better to be a big fish in a small pond when that small pond has way more small fish than the big pond. That's a deep metaphor.