Although the 2023 Men's Basketball World Cup is still early from the start, the World Cup qualifiers have been in full swing, and the Chinese men's basketball team participated in the first window of the game in November 2021, winning two consecutive victories against the Japanese men's basketball team, while the Old Rivals of the Chinese Men's Basketball Team, the Korean Men's Basketball Team, were not so lucky.
Because of the positive appearance in the team, the South Korean men's basketball team did not participate in the World Preliminary Tournament in February, and then FIBA announced the disqualification of the South Korean Men's Basketball World Preliminary Tournament, so that the Korean men's basketball team not only missed the 2023 Men's Basketball World Cup, but also because the World Cup results were linked to the Olympic Games, the South Korean men's basketball team also missed the 2024 Paris Olympic Games in advance! This also means that the Korean men's basketball team has no world series to play in the past 5 years.
On the day of March 9, the South Korean media "NEWSIS" reported that the Korean men's basketball team has begun to carry out a major blood change, and their painstaking naturalized black inner line Luo Jian'er will also retire! To put it bluntly, the South Korean men's basketball team is equivalent to giving up this national team and being forced to start preparing for the 2027 Men's Basketball World Cup and the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games, but it is really deserved that the South Korean men's basketball team fell into such a situation.
In February to prepare for the World Preliminary Tournament, the South Korean men's basketball coach had suggested that all players be tested for nucleic acid, but the Korean Basketball Association did not listen to the advice, which also led to a number of positive cases in the Korean men's basketball team, helplessly, the Korean men's basketball team could only notify FIBA to withdraw from the World Preliminary Tournament, FIBA did not give the Korean men's basketball team any face, FIBA did not change the Schedule of the Korean Men's Basketball Team, and then announced the cancellation of the South Korean Men's Basketball Team's World Cup Qualifier.
In recent years, the South Korean men's basketball team has entered the green and yellow, although they have naturalized the black inner line Luo Jian'er, helplessly the Chinese men's basketball team is still the hegemonic position in Asia, the Japanese men's basketball team has also begun to rise through the dual operation of mixed blood + naturalization, the Iranian men's basketball team is old but the strength is still there, and the Korean men's basketball team has lost its status in Asia. But in the past two years, the South Korean men's basketball team has also emerged some basketball talents, naturalized Luo Jian'er is still very powerful, in addition, in the United States NCAA, Lee Hyun-chung's performance is also very eye-catching, if it can successfully enter the World Cup, it is not ruled out that the Korean men's basketball team will make a difference.
But after fibath announced that the South Korean men's basketball team did not qualify for the World Cup qualifiers, it directly played the South Korean team to 2027, in the past five years, the South Korean team has no international competition to play, this year there is an Asian Games and the Asian Cup two Asian games, next year the South Korean men's basketball team will be even more miserable, there is no game in Asia. Luo Jian'er is 33 years old this year, so he really has only one option to retire.
And the rising star of the South Korean men's basketball team Lee Hyun-jung is 22 years old this year, to the 2027 World Cup is 27 years old, the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games are 28 years old, at the level of the Korean men's basketball team, playing the World Cup is not a big problem, but it is not difficult to enter the Olympic Games, that is to say, like Lee Hyun-jung, a once-in-a-decade talented player of the Korean men's basketball team, the entire career can only represent the national team to play a World Cup, I have to say that Lee Hyun-chung is also sad enough.
The South Korean men's basketball team has missed the World Cup and the Olympic Games, in the current situation, the national team to tear down and rebuild is also a helpless move, can only say that the Korean Basketball Association did not follow the advice of the coach, now it is deserved, but Lee Hyun-jung's career as a player has been wasted.