He is 176cm tall, which can be said to be "small" for professional basketball players. But with his own efforts, he proved that "small" players can also stand in the CBA. He is Lu Xiaoming!
Shi Chengjiang Xingquan, Lu Xiaoming sparkled in the basketball arena. He is a national team and CBA All-Star, who won the assist king for three consecutive seasons, he is the CBA all-time assist king, and the first player in CBA history to count more than 2,000 assists.
Dreams come true and enter professional leagues
Lu Xiaoming only began to contact basketball in the first year, when he was only 148 centimeters tall, and the disadvantage of height did not discourage him. Later, when I arrived at Yantai Sports School, I began basketball training in the real sense. During the period, he cried and wanted to give up, and there were also times when he secretly ran home and did not want to practice again, but he finally persevered, and gradually let him like the sport of basketball.
Heaven will not treat anyone who works hard for his dreams, and years of hard training have finally made his dreams come true. In 1996, he entered the Shandong Youth Team, and later was selected into the National Youth Training Team, which was quite desperate in the training team, and also let him enter the main team list. After that, he participated in the Asian Youth Men's Basketball Championship and the Ninth Games, performed well in the game, and gradually made steady progress on the road of professional basketball.
At the beginning of his career, fate was uncertain
But Lu Xiaoming then encountered the first bump in his basketball career, and after the league ended, the team announced that he was downgraded to the Shandong Dabenjia B team that Had just been established in Shandong at that time, which made him depressed for a long time. At this time, his family has been by his side to accompany and encourage him, so that he can regain his self-confidence and return to the stadium with a new look and compete in the B League.
But fate seemed to have played another joke on him, and after the end of the A and B leagues, the team suddenly announced its dissolution. At this time, he had no idea what to do with the back road and where to go. But Huang Tian did not pay off, he joined the Hong Kong Flying Dragons soon, just when the Chinese Basketball Association specially approved the Hong Kong team to directly participate in the CBA League, he seized this opportunity and finally stood on the CBA, the biggest stage of Chinese basketball, to show himself.
It is said that the legendary life will be full of twists and turns, and after the season, the Hong Kong team announced its dissolution due to financial problems. Another bump in the road found him, when it was difficult for a freshman to find a team to sign. But he trained hard since he was a child, and he told himself that he must not give up and continue to pursue his basketball dream.
Meet life Bole, based on the CBA
After that, the goddess of luck once again cared for him, and after the introduction of agent Lu Hao, Lu Xiaoming met the most important mentor of his basketball career, Jiang Xingquan. The old man introduced him to the Xinjiang team and gave him the opportunity to step into the CBA stage again. It can be said that Hong Kong Feilong provided a platform for Lu Xiaoming to participate in the CBA for the first time, and Lu Xiaoming really started and gained a foothold in the CBA, which was in the Xinjiang team.
Jiang Xingquan coached lu Xiaoming is the most important coach in Lu Xiaoming's career, he gave Lu Xiaoming a platform to play freely, instilled a lot of things in him, so that he has a great leap forward. Lu Xiaoming has also always been obsessed with Jiang Xingquan's kindness.
During his three seasons in Xinjiang, Lu Xiaoming seized the opportunity to not only be selected as a CBA All-Star, but also selected for the national team coached by Yunas, representing China at the East Asian Games. These game experiences laid a certain foundation for his subsequent explosion.
Transferred to Fujian and ushered in the peak of his career
In May 2006, Lu Xiaoming married his girlfriend who had silently supported him for many years, and in order to take care of his family, Lu Xiaoming left Xinjiang to join the Fujian men's basketball team. Joining Fujian became a major turning point in Lu Xiaoming's career, and his excellent overall view was fully demonstrated on the pitch.
The five years of Fujian team is the five years of solid improvement of his career development, and the system style of the whole team allows him to integrate quickly, and also makes his characteristics fully exerted. Here he played the pinnacle of his career and received many personal honors from his basketball career.
In the past 5 seasons of Fujian, he has delivered 20 assists in a single game, and won the CBA assist king for three consecutive seasons from 2007 to 2010, and was made the strongest 176 on the CBA surface by fans. At this time, Lu Xiaoming has played his own piece of the world in the CBA, and has also established a deep relationship with Fujian teams and fans, and later he thanked Fujian team and Fujian fans in front of the media many times.
In 2011, Fujian needed to train young players, and Shanxi Zhongyu Club contacted Lu Xiaoming for many years, and after thinking about it for a long time, he chose to join Shanxi Zhongyu.
After joining Shanxi, Lu Xiaoming led the team to a historic reach of the final four. Here he completed 2122 assists in his career, becoming the all-time assist king in the CBA and the first player in CBA history to count more than 2000 assists. In the past two years in Shanxi, he has gained honors and the love of the majority of fans.
End the "wandering", announce retirement, for the Chinese basketball cause, continue to send assists
After that, Lu Xiaoming transferred to the Sichuan team, but he has not been reused. The two years in Sichuan should be the two years of relative failure at the end of his career, and the two most painful years. But as he said:
"There is no right or wrong, just not suitable, there are gains and losses, the most important thing is to exercise your strong mind."
He also thanked the chairman for letting him join Sichuan Jinqiang, and thanked the fans who accompanied him for two years. He knew it was time to say goodbye and let his wandering days come to an end.
In October 2015, Lu Xiaoming announced his retirement through an online post. The text is full of gratitude to family, teammates and coaches, and looks forward to the beginning of a new life. After retiring from the army, Lu Xiaoming still can't give up his love for basketball, founded the youth training, cultivated more players with dreams for Chinese basketball, and continued to dedicate his strength to Chinese basketball.
Looking back on his 26-year sports career, Lu Xiaoming has achieved a lot, played for the national youth team and the national team, participated in the All-Star 2 starts in the CBA League 7 times, won the assist king, the steal king, and surpassed the number of assists in the history of the CBA.
He proved with his own actions that in the "giant" sport of basketball, "small" players can also gain a foothold in the CBA!
After retiring from the army, Lu Xiaoming continued to make achievements in the youth training career with his full love for basketball, and here, we thank Lu for his guidance and bless Lu's guidance.