He was selected for the Guangdong youth team at the age of 13, stepped onto the stage of the CBA at the age of 15, was selected for the national team to compete in the Athens Olympics at the age of 17, became the youngest most valuable player at the age of 18, and was selected by the NBA with the sixth pick in the first round at the age of 19. Along the way, Yi Jianlian has been smooth sailing, and the performance of the international arena has also hollowed out the praise of the basketball media. A simple achievement may be the goal of many players throughout their lives! And this is only the prologue to Yi Jianlian's countless achievements, but Yi Jianlian said: If you want to take the leader to talk to me, you feel very defeated.
Yi Jianlian's half-joking words carried some bitterness, and after he was finally accepted by the fans, after he finally became the only pillar of the Chinese men's basketball team, those decades of ridicule and questioning were light in his mouth. After many years, Yi Jianlian became the only player that the Chinese men's basketball team can rely on, is he finally the Yao Ming in our hearts? It was we who finally accepted the UAE in our hearts. Everyone knows that he does not owe anything to the Chinese fans, and he is no longer young enough to withstand the last defense line of the Chinese men's basketball team.
To follow the story of this legendary player, let's follow in the footsteps of history and travel back in time to the early morning of October 1987. A home for ordinary postal workers in Heshan City, Guangdong Province, ushered in a child who was not ordinary when he was born. His father's name is Yi Jingliu, who is 1.96 meters tall, and his mother's name is Mai Meiling, who is 1.73 meters tall, and they were both former members of the handball team. Thanks to the outstanding height of his parents, Yi Jianlian showed talent in basketball at a very young age.
In 1999, at the age of 12, the UAE League and his partner signed up for a street basketball tournament in Shenzhen, and although Yi Jianlian had a height of 194 centimeters at that time, he still lost in the first round. Although he lost the game, all this was seen by the sports school coach Dai Yixin, who saw the potential of Yi Jianlian in that street game. His own love for basketball coupled with the coach's lobbying, although the athlete's parents knew that this road was not easy, they still sent Yi Jianlian to shenzhen sports school. Guangdong Hongyuan is the coach in charge of youth training, specially designed a systematic training program for the UAE, and since then Yi Jianlian has lived a basketball career of winter training three nine and summer training three volts.
Although the training that began to work hard was affirmed by the coach, Yi Jianlian's physical fitness was very poor, and the four hundred meters of the result was never up to standard, which also made him have the idea of giving up. The closed training of the sports school is harmful, without the supervision of parents, Yi Jianlian and his peers have learned to smoke. Do you know that smoking is a big taboo for athletes, let alone 13-year-olds? After seeing Yi Jianlian who swallowed the clouds and vomited mist, his father did not severely reprimand him, which actually made Yi Jianlian a little uneasy. A few days later, his father gave him a favorite mobile phone and a phone pendant with a cigarette that burned halfway. He told the UAE that in the initial stage of life, do not burn as easily as a cigarette to the end, Yi Jianlian understands his father's hard heart. After that, even if Yi Jianlian became famous and the mobile phone changed many times, this mobile phone pendant also accompanied Yi Jianlian until Yi Jianlian integrated self-discipline with himself.
After two years of experience in sports school, the light that belonged to him became more and more difficult to hide. At the age of 15, Yi Jianlian entered Guangdong Hongyuan and officially participated in the competition as the sixth person of the team. At the end of 2002, that night was destined to belong to Yi Jianlian. In the final regular season of the debut season, Guangdong can win the first regular season championship in team history as long as it wins. Faced with such an opportunity, the Guangdong crowd will fight beijing Shougang in the Shijingshan Gymnasium in Beijing. However, in the face of Du Feng's departure from the field, Guangdong's inner line was stretched.
In overtime, 15-year-old Yi Jianlian was appointed as a center forward. Yi Jianlian, who had just arrived, was slightly nervous, although he took off one rebound after another in the inside line, but the continuous three free throws made him fall into endless darkness. The Beijing fans on the sidelines looked at the joke, no one believed that this kid could change anything for the outcome of the game, but he was Yi Jianlian!
As the fourth free throw of basketball entered the net, the talented teenager turned on the killing mode. Snaps, covers, penalties hit! At this time, the noise of the fans has no effect on him, and the commentary directly calls, this is the next Yao Ming! But he became famous earlier than Yao Ming. In overtime, he scored 13 points to lead the team to win their first regular season championship. That night belonged to Yi Jianlian, which was his battle for fame and the beginning of the teenager's brilliance in the basketball world. The Guangdong team has also changed from a veteran to a situation where the youngster picks the beam, and after a season of experience, the Guangdong team won the first championship in team history in the 03-04 season. This was the first roar of the South China Tiger in the CBA.
In the offseason of that year, because of his outstanding performance in the league, at the age of 17, Yi Jianlian was selected for the national team roster to accompany the team to the Athens Olympics. The UAE, which appeared on the international stage for the first time, was somewhat introverted, hiding behind Wang Zhizhi and Yao Ming like a child. On that national team trip, under the protection of Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi's wings, Yi Jianlian was like a sponge, frantically absorbing the winning experience. The Chinese men's basketball team reached the quarterfinals. Although the UAE League rarely played in that World Series, it also paved the way for the future. After the polishing of the competition, the UAE League's good jade has been carved, and he has successfully entered the vision of NBA scouting, and the UAE League is about to face more difficult challenges!
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