Shirelijan played with the Xinjiang Flying Tigers for 11 years and was an important part of their three consecutive Grand Finals from 2009 to 2011 and their first championship in the 2016–17 season.

Shirelijan Muxtar was promoted to the first team of Xinjiang Flying Tigers and debuted in Chinese Basketball Association in the 2008–09 season.

[2] He played an important role in the first CBA championship for the Xinjiang Flying Tigers franchise.

Before the 2018–19 season, Shirelijan was rented to Guangzhou Loong Lions for one year in a blockbuster trade.

Therefore, alternative spellings of his full name include: Some sources[2] mistake his patronym's indirect transliteration via Mandarin as Mugedaer.