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As the most outstanding and representative figure in the history of Chinese basketball, Yao Ming can be said to be the façade of Chinese basketball. From going abroad to the NBA, he has worked hard for Chinese basketball, what bitterness has he experienced.
Yao Ming as a child
Yao Ming was born on September 11, 1980 in Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital, and weighed 5 kilograms at birth and was 0.6 meters tall, almost twice that of an ordinary baby. Yao Ming's father, Yao Zhiyuan, is 2 meters 08 tall, and his mother Fang Fengdi is 1 meter 88 tall, both of whom are excellent basketball players. This made Yao Ming very young, he received great attention from the Shanghai basketball community, and even circulated a "Yao Ming plan" at that time.
Yao Ming and his parents
He has been built according to the standards of sports stars since he was a child, and when it comes to Yao Ming's relationship with basketball, it can be said that he has had it since he was a child. They live in a sports compound, upstairs and downstairs with uncles and aunts from other sports. The children around them are also the same as Yao Ming's second generation, and the people around him are also instilling Yao Ming with the idea that you should also engage in sports. When Yao Ming entered the NBA, the first jersey number was No. 15, which was the jersey number that inherited Yao Ming's father.
Yao Ming's mother
Yao Ming's diet was amazing when he grew up, and his parents could only save money to provide him with a better quality of life. Because Yao Ming grew up very fast when he was a child, his mother was full of troubles when knitting sweaters for him, and every year she had to knit a new sweater for Yao Ming to wear, and Yao Ming's mother simply knitted a little bigger. When Yao Ming was in kindergarten, his sweater was something that even adults could wear.
On Yao Ming's 4th birthday, his parents gave him the first basketball in his life. Yao Ming's interest in basketball was not strong at first, until one summer when he was training, the sound of the air flowing in his ears, the sharp sound of sneakers rubbing on the floor, and the crisp sound of basketball entering the net, these sounds made Yao Ming immersed in it.
Young Yao Ming
In 1989, Yao Ming was attending sports school and began to conduct amateur basketball training, and the important reason why Yao Ming attended sports school was precisely because the students who attended the sports school at that time had food subsidies, which could reduce a lot of pressure on his parents. Because he is far taller than his peers, Yao Ming is often ridiculed by others as a "stupid big man".
Yao Ming was young
When Yao Ming was 10 years old, his shooting was very poor, especially the free throws. Once the coach made a training plan specifically for Yao Ming's free throws, that is, yao Ming did nothing in half an hour, only free throws and shot two can go. Yao Ming's mother and coach were watching from the sidelines, so nervous that they didn't even shoot two. According to Yao Ming, I gave so much sweat and time, why I couldn't even shoot the free throws. After this incident, Yao Ming began to train very hard, and he could have such an excellent feel in his later basketball career, all thanks to his hard training now.
Yao Ming and his classmates
In 1990, Yao Ming participated in the basketball summer camp organized by the Shanghai Municipal Sports Bureau and began to participate in basketball competitions officially. At the age of 13, Yao Ming's height reached 1 meter 96, so he was selected by the Shanghai Shark Youth Team. The high-intensity vocational training also made Yao Ming suffer a lot, and he lost nearly 40 pounds in the first month. At that time, Yao Ming only had a stipend income of 10 yuan per month, and Yao Ming's biggest hobby at that time was to play arcade games after the training was completed, so that he could alleviate the fatigue caused by high-intensity training. As the years passed, Yao Ming's hard training did not stop.
In April 1998, Before yao ming was 18 years old, he was selected for the national team coached by Wang Fei. In May of the same year, he flew to the United States to participate in the Nike Blue Ball Training Summer Camp, and one by one the high school students flew away, full of talent, but Yao Ming only had a crazy height. He knows that as long as he works hard to polish his body and technology, he can play a world in the basketball field. After 2 years, Yao Ming's height was finally fixed at 2.26 meters, which gave him a great advantage in height.
Yao Ming was selected for the national team
Yao Ming shined at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. When the Chinese team played against the American Dream Four team, Yao Ming won the favor of the American coach TomJanovic with his solid interior basic skills and soft hand. In the same year, Yao Ming won the ESPN Global Most Promising Athlete Award, which laid an important foreshadowing for Yao Ming to join the Rockets as a champion. However, what many people don't know is that Yao Ming's draft road is not smooth. In the 2000-2001 CBA season, Yao Ming was able to get the impressive statistics in Shanghai Oriental, averaging 27.1 points, 19.4 rebounds and 5.5 blocks per game. Although he failed to beat his old rival Bayi team in the Finals, the little giant of the East has received a lot of attention from the NBA.
Yao Ming in the national team
At that time, the NBA attached great importance to Chinese players, Wang Zhizhi joined the Dallas Mavericks in 1999, Battle joined the Denver Nuggets as a free agent, and the next Chinese to enter the NBA must be Yao Ming, a small giant in the East. However, the Shanghai team was not willing to accept Yao Ming's departure and directly put forward outrageous conditions to the NBA League, so Yao Ming had to play another season in the CBA.
Yao Ming joined the NBA
In the 2001-2002 season, Yao Ming had 32 points, 19 rebounds and 4.8 blocks, and even more terrifyingly, he still had a 72% shooting percentage. This is a shocking statistic, and the foreign aid center introduced by the CBA is also shocked. In the finals, Yao Ming led the Shanghai team to defeat the Bayi team and won his first CBA championship in his life. He can average 41.3 points, 21 rebounds and 4.3 blocks per game in the series, and throughout the history of the CBA, this is a figure that is out of reach for all players.
At this time, Yao Ming is 22 years old, which is already an elderly rookie in the NBA league. Moreover, Yao Ming is no longer invincible in the CBA, and at this time, Yao Ming can no longer suppress his inner yearning for the NBA. He forcefully put forward his own ideas to the Shanghai team, claiming that if you don't let me go, I will immediately retire a game and will not play for you again. Finally, after a series of negotiations, Yao Ming was able to successfully participate in the NBA draft.
Because of the obstruction of the Basketball Association, Yao Ming's family could not go to the scene to participate in the draft, and even did not see the TV broadcast, and could only learn the news through the radio, but this could not change the draft result. On June 26, 2002, the draft was held in Madison Square in New York City, and witnessed by the world, the Houston Rockets selected Yao Ming from China with a first-class lottery. Yao Ming, who heard the news, just smiled, as if he was looking forward to the future, and as if he couldn't hide his inner excitement. And this is the beginning of a great legend. After Yao Ming arrived in Houston, many American fans came to welcome him with the enthusiasm of the city. Recalling the scene, Yao Ming said that I was caught between China's hopes and Houston's expectations, and all I could do was live up to expectations and move forward steadily.
Yao Ming joined the Rockets
After entering the Rockets, Boss Buddha and the other players welcomed this big man from China in a very humorous way. Their kind conversation and friendliness to Yao Ming allowed the big young man to adapt to the place as soon as possible. In the team, as people later saw, boss Fo played an important role in Yao Ming's future NBA career, and it was because of his presence that Yao Ming was well integrated into the team.
Yao Ming and Francis
Yao Ming's first game in the NBA was an away challenge, the Indiana Pacers, and this game was a nightmare for Yao Ming. Hundreds of millions of fans are watching him, all expecting the big man of the East to have an experienced performance. Perhaps under excessive pressure and discomfort with the intensity of the NBA, Yao Ming played 11 minutes, and the only shot in the game did not shoot into the basket, and only got a bad result of 0 points and 2 rebounds. Yao Ming was very scared, afraid that he would be sent back to China by the team.
In the next few games, Yao Ming still did not perform satisfactorily, which made many people extremely disappointed in this big man. It also caused the ridicule of "Big Mouth" Buckley, who publicly said in a show that if Yao Ming could score more than 19 points in a game, he would kiss the donkey's ass. So Yao Ming spent the beginning of the season under public opinion and pressure,
Fortunately, the rocket players and head coaches gave Yao Ming great encouragement and self-confidence. Translating Colin's companionship and parental care, Houston has also become a warm haven for Yao Ming. All this allowed Yao Ming to be relieved in his heart and devote himself to training in a new way. He knows that he is no longer the inner pillar of the Shanghai team, which averages 40+20 per game. In the days that followed, most of his companions were only hard training and shooting again and again.
In this way, the Rockets ushered in their 8th game, the Houston Rockets against the Los Angeles Lakers, due to O'Neal's absence due to injury, rookie Yao Ming did not meet the league's first center this game. This game is destined for Yao Ming to be the focus, in the 23 minutes of the bench appearance of 9 free throws 2 of 2 free throws, to help the team narrowly beat the Lakers, as desired punch barkley, overturning everyone's doubts about him. And this is the beginning of his glory.
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