Can you imagine that a national team with NBA players would almost quit the World Series or even disband the team because it could not afford to buy a plane ticket or eat?
Similar things often happen to African teams.
For example, in 2019, the Nigerian men's basketball team ranked 17th in the world, 7 places higher than the Chinese men's basketball team, but was almost forced to withdraw due to a shortage of funds.
Yudu, a Nigerian player who played for the Jazz at the time, once said publicly: "Dear sports world, there are only two weeks left before the opening of the men's basketball World Cup, but we have no training fees, travel expenses, and even food." ”
Similar incidents are not uncommon for African teams.
One of the saddest things is that they obviously have a large number of talents, but they cannot offer high salaries for these talents, let alone salaries, and even basic guarantees.
This year, there is a European team that has suffered a similar change.
According to reports, the BiH Basketball Association has financial problems, which makes the Bosnian national team face serious risks when participating in international competitions, and may not be able to participate in the European Championships and world cups.
Bosnia and Herzegovina men's basketball player Nurkic said in an interview: "We really don't want to affect the game because of the funds, the atmosphere of the team is good at the moment, we need to keep going." We really want to be able to play at the European Championships, which is one of the most important races. ”
Drought death, waterlogging death, probably this is the case.
While we were still desperate for an NBA player, the national team with NBA players was thinking about whether the financial reserves could support them to play games.
Early this morning, the European media Eurohoops came to the news that the application for financial assistance submitted by the Bosnia and Herzegovina Basketball Association to the government has been approved, and if there is no accident, they will be able to play in the European Championships smoothly.
The lineup of this Bosnian men's basketball team is definitely strong, NBA main center Nurkic, former Pistons center Garza, 2018 NBA debut Moussa, and a large number of strong players playing in the Europa League.
Unfortunately, their opponents are France, Germany, Lithuania, Hungary, Slovenia, all of which look terrible.
To be realistic, we may not be able to beat any of them.
While Bosnia and Herzegovina is fretting about economic problems, we are fretting about league level issues.
Nowadays, the economic problems of the Bosnian men's basketball team have been solved, and I hope that our league level can also be improved as soon as possible.
Maybe one day, we can also return to the forest of the world's strongest teams.
Hopefully, that day will come sooner.