On May 1, the well-known basketball blogger "I'll Think About It for a While" reported a blockbuster news, Zhang Zhenlin and Li Yueru, two top players of the Chinese men's and women's basketball team, submitted an application to go to the United States to compete!
According to the famous Yang Yi report, Zhang Zhenlin has written an application to his mother to play in the United States (Zhang Zhenlin's mother Wang Fang is the director of the Liaoning Basketball Management Center and the executive director of the National Team Construction Committee), and the Liaoning men's basketball team knows that the Chinese Basketball Association led by Wang Fang and Yao Ming has also allowed Zhang Zhenlin to go abroad! This time Zhang Zhenlin intends to challenge the NBA Development League G League, is expected to play in the United States for 1-2 years, and intends to complete his dream of challenging the NBA through the performance of the G League! Li Yueru's side is completely different, she has signed a rookie contract with the WNBA Chicago Sky earlier, and the team can't wait for Li Yueru's arrival.
This year's NBA draft has Guo Haowen and Zeng Fanbo two players to participate, Han Xu has met with new York freemen, the new season Han Xu will represent the New York free agents in the WNBA, now Zhang Zhenlin is already the main force of the Chinese men's basketball team, and Li Yueru is praised by many domestic and foreign fans as the world's women's basketball quasi-first center, women's basketball world O'Neal, the two players all went to the United States to challenge, which is definitely good news for China's basketball world.
However, this time is a big challenge for Yao Ming and Wang Fang, because after Li Yueru signed a contract with Chicago Sky, Yao Ming and the Basketball Association side blocked it and directly contacted Li Yueru's parent team, clearly telling that Li Yueru was not allowed to play in the WNBA! Li Yueru has repeatedly expressed his willingness to return to China to participate in training and competitions when the national team has a game, but Yao Ming and the Basketball Association are still indifferent.
At that time, Yao Ming was accused by domestic fans, to know that Li Yueru helped the Guangdong women's basketball team win the championship in China, and then led the team to win the championship twice after renting the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team, not to mention that in the country, Li Yueru was also a big killer in the international arena, just 23-year-old Li Yueru chose to go to the United States at this time to challenge himself is actually a good choice, but the Basketball Association in order to pursue the results of the Chinese women's basketball international competition, but plans to force Li Yueru.
But in fact, the Chinese men's basketball team is closer, on June 30, the Chinese men's basketball team will participate in the third window of the World Cup qualifiers, the World Preliminary Tournament Chinese men's basketball team to twice against the powerful Australia, twice against Chinese Taipei. In July, the Chinese men's basketball team still has the Asian Cup to play, and the goal of the Chinese men's basketball team in the Asian Cup is to compete for the championship with all its might! In the case of such a tense and intense schedule, Yao Ming and the Basketball Association can not hesitate to agree to release people, while the World Cup event of the Chinese women's basketball team will not be until September, but the Basketball Association will not let people go.
Now Zhang Zhenlin's application to play in the United States has been approved by his mother Wang Fang and Yao Ming, and Li Yueru applied again at this time, Yao Ming and the Basketball Association are embarrassed, if you continue to block Li Yueru from playing in the United States, Yao Ming and Wang Fang will definitely have to bear a bowl of water uneven infamy, and Li Yueru's situation is different from Zhang Zhenlin, the young Li Yueru is already a famous player in the world women's basketball team, this time challenging the WNBA must have something to do, and Zhang Zhenlin needs to start from the G League. Whether it will be successful in the NBA is still unknown.
Li Yueru once again put forward an application to play in the United States, in fact, Yao Ming and the Basketball Association have no need to stop Li Yueru, after all, Li Yueru has expressed that it will not affect playing for the national team, Yao Ming's side can be completely assured, and Li Yueru's challenge to the WNBA is good news for herself and the Chinese women's basketball team.