On March 31, the US media reported that Li Yueru, the core of the Chinese women's basketball team, has signed a rookie contract with the Chicago Sky team of the WNBA, and the general manager and head coach of the Chicago Sky team, James Wade, also expressed his expectation that Li Yueru can enter the team as soon as possible.
However, on April 7, Li Yueru's road to the United States to play was overshadowed, according to the well-known basketball blogger "Solomon's disciple", Li Yueru just reported that he had reached a contract with the WNBA Chicago Sky, and the Chinese Basketball Association contacted Li Yueru's parent team and clearly expressed that he would not agree to Li Yueru's plan to play in the WNBA in the United States! To put it bluntly, Li Yueru thought of playing in the WNBA, and Yao Ming and the Basketball Association were the first to disagree.
And according to the "Solomon's protégé", even if Li Yueru has expressed her position to the Basketball Association, even if she herself goes to the WNBA in the United States to play, when the Chinese women's basketball team has a game, she is willing to return to China in advance to participate in the joint training and competition of the national team, and the Basketball Association and Yao Ming are still resolute. So from the current situation, Li Yueru wants to rush to the United States in the new season to play in the WNBA league is basically difficult.
Soon another basketball blogger, "We Love Women's Basketball", also forwarded the report of "Solomon's Disciples" and said that the news he learned was the same! After Li Yueru's good wishes to participate in the WNBA to improve himself were prevented by the Chinese Basketball Association, Yao Ming was soon pushed to the cusp of the storm, to know that the former Chinese basketball celebrities including Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi were also difficult to meet opponents in The domestic player period, but Bayi and Shanghai were unwilling to release people, and it was not easy to break the obstacles to the NBA experience.
It is reasonable to say that Yao Ming has experienced such things and has encountered such troubles, and should be able to better understand the player's idea of going to the United States to improve himself, but it is in the case that Li Yueru has signed a contract with the Chicago Sky, the Chinese Basketball Association suddenly intervened, directly informing Li Yueru's parent team that Li Yueru is not allowed to play abroad, even if Li Yueru has shown sincerity. Yao Ming, as a player who once played in the NBA and completed the sublimation, actually intervened to prevent Li Yueru from going to the United States to play in the WNBA, and many fans were scolding Yao Ming for being short-sighted.
Soon Taiwanese celebrity Zhu Yanshuo stood up and spoke out, and Zhu Yanshuo learned that first, Li Yueru's contract with the parent team in the WCBA has not ended. Second, Li Yueru's agent did not register with the Basketball Association and had no way to contact the Basketball Association. Third, the WNBA did not send all the clarification letters to the Basketball Association through FIBA. The Basketball Association's reluctance to release people is not unreasonable, and judging from the fact that the Basketball Association was willing to let Han Xu play in the United States, Yao Ming had no reason not to let Li Yueru go.
Soon Zhu Yanshuo corrected the report, Li Yueru and the Guangdong team contract expired in July this year, in addition, Although Li Yueru's agent was not registered with the Basketball Association, there was no requirement that the agent must be publicly announced, and Wang Fang, the main person in charge of the Chinese women's basketball team, has been in contact with Li Yueru's agent. The last point is that the WNBA needs to clarify the letter after Li Yueru arrives in the United States before the WNBA can pass the FIBA to clarify the letter. Zhu Yanshuo said that if Li Yueru wants to go to the WNBA, he should still be able to go.
Judging from the report of Taiwanese celebrity Zhu Yanshuo, we really wronged Yao Ming and the Chinese Basketball Association, Li Yueru is not sure whether he can play in the WNBA at present, mainly because of the contract, if the Guangdong women's basketball team can give in, I believe that Li Yueru can successfully land in the WNBA, here we also apologize to Yao Ming.