On March 31, Beijing time, according to the latest news from foreign media, the Chicago Sky team has signed a rookie contract with Chinese player Li Yueru! Before that, the Chicago Sky announced that they got Li Yueru's signing rights from Los Angeles Spark through a trade, and the team also expressed its recognition of Li Yueru!
The team said: "Li Yueru is a well-known player in China and even internationally, and she can add a lot of value to the team. It's about our future as well as our present. We think she's going to be a good WNBA player for a long time, and we're excited that she might play in the Chicago Sky jersey in the future." ”
Li Yueru has a cute face, due to the sweet and cute appearance and cool style of the ball, Li Yueru has been very popular on the Internet, and the posture of the cute girl grabbing the floor ball has been talked about by fans. Therefore, everyone is familiar with her: "female version of O'Neal", "Xiao Bao", and this cute little treasure has a strong lethality, Li Yueru's two-meter body size can occupy an absolute advantage against most female players. Under the combination of body shape + arm span + footsteps, she has become an important force in the attack and defense of the Chinese women's basketball team.
Li Yueru is 23 years old, born in Changzhi, Shanxi, a little girl in 99 years, her parents are above 180, she grew to 1.83 meters at the age of 11, and now her height has reached 2 meters 01. In order to make her not feel inferior to her height, her parents sent her to Henan Sports School for training from an early age, and later was taken to Dongguan to start a basketball career path in Dongguan by Ding Wansong, the head coach of the women's basketball team of Dongguan Sports School.
Li Yueru also said: "I think basketball has given me full confidence, because I feel that I can give full play to my height advantage in the basketball arena." At the same time, my coaches are also very optimistic about me and often help me, so I improve very fast, so that I will no longer feel uncomfortable because of my tall height. ”
The young Li Yueru already has an equally high-altitude boyfriend, he is an athlete in basketball circles, currently plays for the Shenzhen men's basketball team, is a young center. Zhao Yiming, 2 meters 18 tall, weighing nearly 300 pounds, the love between the two is also quite stable, so the heavyweight basketball couple combination is blessed by the fans and has been optimistic about the outside world. In the future, if the two of them achieve positive results, the child's basketball genes must have an absolute advantage!
Li Yueru and the WNBA have intersected and connected in 2019, and in the draft that year, the 20-year-old Li Yueru was selected by the Atlanta Dream team in the third round. But in order to prepare for the Tokyo Olympics, Li Yueru gave up the opportunity to go to the United States to improve herself. WNBA teams look at the members of the Chinese women's basketball team, indicating that the Chinese women's basketball team occupies an important position in the world women's basketball, and the Chinese women's basketball team is definitely worthy of the future.
Li Yueru is now the core player of the Chinese women's basketball team and a basketball star with great potential, known as her performance in the 2015 U16 Women's Basketball Asian Championship, averaging 22.1 points, 16.1 rebounds, 1.6 blocks per game, Li Yueru's dominance under the basket makes the women's basketball team easily win the championship, such a value is really a blockbuster. He has led the Chinese women's basketball team to the third place in the 2017 Women's Basketball Asian Cup, the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games Championship, the 2021 Women's Basketball Asian Cup runner-up, and assisted the Chinese women's basketball team to advance to the quarterfinals on the stage of the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Prior to this, in the women's basketball World Cup qualifier, Li Yueru also led the team to play. She won all three games to advance to the World Cup, and she was selected for the best team and was selected as the best player with an average of 16.7 points and 8 rebounds per game. Now the Asian stage is no longer enough for her to show, and we also look forward to Li Yueru being able to show herself better on a higher platform. I wish Li Yueru that in the future, there is light in his eyes and frankness in his smile, hurry to challenge the world, and bravely go to the dream!
(Lin Xiaoxiang)