On the evening of November 19, in preparation for the 2023 Men's Basketball World Cup Asian Qualifiers, the Chinese men's basketball team held a pre-game mobilization meeting. In addition to Guo Allen and Zhou Qi apologizing to the whole team for being openly ridiculed by the entire Chinese men's basketball team for participating in the "Spit Conference", Zhao Rui, who wore the American team's T-shirt during the 2019 Basketball World Cup for the country, also reviewed.
Objectively speaking, the dressing style of players in private is purely personal freedom, but it is true that they should be dressed appropriately when they appear in public as national team players during their national team play. In recent years, due to more and more young people in China more cultural self-confidence, so the reflection on Zhao Rui wearing the American team T-shirt is a bit extreme, resulting in a rise in public opinion, Zhao Rui has not been drafted into the team by the national team, from the end of the 2019 World Cup to the 2021 Olympic Games and the Asian Cup, Zhao Rui has not been on the big list.
With the end of the Tokyo Olympic cycle, now into the Paris Olympic Cycle, the Chinese men's basketball team needs to think hard and start again, and Zhao Rui has been reflecting on his own problems and actively asking for battle, so the Chinese men's basketball team decided to recall Zhao Rui again, and was determined to strengthen the ideological education of the whole team.
After returning to the men's basketball team this time, Zhao Rui expressed his determination: "I have been working hard in the past two years, and I am eager to wear the national team uniform again. Thanks to the association and the team for giving me this opportunity, I will definitely do my best to prove myself. I used to think that playing well was everything, but then I realized that as a public figure, whether on and off the field, you need to be strict with yourself, and your words and deeds must be worthy of the status of a national player. ”