When it comes to basketball, the first thing that comes to mind is the word "giant", as a sport with the highest average height in the world, the importance of height to basketball is self-evident. However, there are also such a group of outliers in the world basketball world, their height is not outstanding, but they can also break through the world in the field of giants, such as NBA's Aaron Iverson, Nate Robinson and Boggs, who are typical of small people. And the protagonist we want to talk about today, he is also a small star, he is the former Sichuan point guard Lu Xiaoming.
Career to 6 teams to become famous in Xinjiang
As a small player, Lu Xiaoming knew from the beginning that his basketball path was not so smooth. Compared to those athletes who are extremely talented, easily reach 1.9 meters or even more in height. With a height of just over 1.76 meters, it is not easy for him to break through the world on the basketball court.
Yes, he wasn't talented enough; Yes, his height is too ordinary; Yes, any CBA point guard has the potential to blow him up... For Lu Xiaoming, he has every reason to give up basketball, and he has every reason to fall, because he has enough reasons to choose other projects or jobs. But even though there were ten thousand reasons and excuses to give up, he chose to persevere. Because of love, because he really loves basketball.
Lu Xiaoming started his career with his hometown team, Shandong. In 2001, Lu Xiaoming followed Gong Xiaobin and others to represent the Shandong team in the National Games of that year, and had a good performance. After the end of the Complete Games, many people believe that Lu Xiaoming should become a member of the Shandong team with his outstanding performance in the National Games. In 2001, Lu Xiaoming was divided into the first and second teams (similar to the second team), and several players of the same period entered the Shandong team.
Whether it is the Shandong team in the early days of his career, or the later Hong Kong Feilong (the CBA team used to be a team, now gone), they are all the hurried passers-by of Lu Xiaoming's career. It was not until 2003, when an old man named Jiang Xingquan appeared, that Lu Xiaoming's situation changed greatly. In the same year, he signed a two-year contract with Xinjiang and began a brand new CBA journey.
Under the tutelage of his mentor Jiang Xingquan, Lu Xiaoming's skills have improved rapidly, and he has gradually grown from a small role player to an all-star player. It was only at this time that Lu Xiaoming really felt that he was already a CBA player. Because before, because of his height, many people were not optimistic about his prospects, and even laughed at him. However, he confirmed Ma Yun's words with practical actions: "Dreams still have to be had, what if they are realized?"
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Shandong, Hong Kong, Xinjiang, Fujian, Shanxi and Sichuan, these are the 6 teams that Lu Xiaoming has played in succession, carefully calculated, since entering the Shandong team, until today's announcement of retirement, Lu Xiaoming has played in the CBA for 14 seasons. Over the past 14 years, he's gone from being a five-player to an All-Star and then to one of the league's best point guards.
As for Lu Xiaoming, there is also a small allusion, according to anecdotes, in the national team that Yunas trained that year, Lu Xiaoming also had a dunk with Sun Yue. Although Lü Xiaoming's two attempts at air connection were unsuccessful at that time, Ah Dijiang, who witnessed all this, still gave Lü Xiaoming a high degree of appreciation, and he even joked that if Xiaoming was higher, he would be a Chinese Carter.
In 14 years, Lu Xiaoming was taken away by youth, 14 years, leaving him with a few wrinkles, but what he left for us, the CBA, and The Chinese basketball is a rare wealth. In 14 years, he left 3601 points, 1329 boards, 2271 assists (2nd in league history), 1032 steals (2nd in league history)... His highest single-game scoring is 26 points, his highest assists in a single game is 20 (the second highest in a single game in history), and his highest number of steals in a single game is 10... For us, for Chinese basketball, he left us more of a spirit, a spirit of self-improvement and never giving up, and it is precisely because of this spirit that Chinese basketball can be continuous from generation to generation.
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