On March 31, Annie Costabile, a reporter from the Chicago media "Sun Times", reported that the WNBA Chicago Sky team has signed a rookie contract with Li Yueru, the core of the Chinese women's basketball team, and the general manager and head coach of the Chicago Sky team, James Wade, also publicly expressed his eagerness for Li Yueru to enter the team in an interview.
Li Yueru and the United States WNBA have completed the signing, this news makes domestic fans very excited, the domestic basketball world since Zhou Qi left the NBA, women's basketball Han Xu once landed in the WNBA in 2019, but then because of the epidemic, Han Xu did not return to the WNBA, in recent years, there are no players in the domestic basketball world in the NBA or WNBA, the fans are also very lonely, this side Li Yueru finally got the contract of the Chicago Sky.
Although Li Yueru is just 23 years old, her height has reached 2 meters 01, her body is also very strong, through the performance of the Women's Basketball World Cup and the Olympic Games, many fans at home and abroad have identified Li Yueru as the first center of the active world women's basketball team! However, on April 7, the well-known basketball blogger "Solomon's disciple" broke the news that the WNBA Chicago Sky and Li Yueru had just reached a contract, and Yao Ming and the Chinese Basketball Association contacted Li Yueru's parent team and clearly expressed their disagreement with Li Yueru to play in the United States!
And according to the "Solomon's disciples" report, Li Yueru is trying to win the WNBA to play, Li Yueru clearly expressed to Yao Ming and the Basketball Association that he is willing to return to China to participate in the joint training of the national team and the national team when there is a game in the Chinese women's basketball team! Soon another blogger, "We Love Women's Basketball", forwarded the revelation of "Solomon's disciple", saying that the news he learned was the same as that of "Solomon's disciple".
Judging from the current situation, Li Yueru wants to play in the WNBA is not generally difficult! Yao Ming and the Basketball Association personally stopped it, and Li Yueru's way to play in the United States was basically blocked! However, in the eyes of many fans, Yao Ming's move is very short-sighted, to know that Wang Zhizhi including Yao Ming himself suffered this loss, they were all top players in China, staying in the CBA has no meaning, they all want to go to the NBA, but the team has clearly proposed that they lead the team to win the championship before releasing people (Wang Zhizhi has actually won the championship many times in the Bayi men's basketball team).
Li Yueru and wang Zhizhi's situation is very similar, with Li Yueru's ability, continue to stay in the country will not have any progress, she has won 3 championship rings in Guangdong and Inner Mongolia, WCBA's inner line only Han Xu can play back and forth with Li Yueru, but Han Xu is taller than Li Yueru, the weight is a lot lighter, belongs to the technical flow of the inner line, it is impossible to give Li Yueru a confrontation, Li Yueru wants to continue to improve his personal ability to long-term insight, it is very necessary to play in the WNBA.
In fact, Li Yueru has also made her attitude clear, she is willing to return to China to participate in joint training when the national team has a game, will not affect the international competition of the Chinese women's basketball team, Yao Ming and the Basketball Association do not have to worry at all, Li Yueru if she can play in the WNBA for 5 to 8 years, then her personal ability will be greatly improved, and the Chinese women's basketball team will have hope for the World Cup and Olympic medals.
I hope Yao Ming does not take such a short-sighted view, after all, he has also experienced such a thing before and has been troubled by it for a long time. I still hope that Yao Ming can put his luggage Yueru to play in the WNBA in the United States, after all, this is also a good thing for the Chinese women's basketball team.