The Chinese Basketball Association announced the first batch of nominations for the Chinese Basketball Hall of Fame, including Liu Yudong, Sui Feifei, Adi Jiang, etc. in the Chinese basketball industry, with greater popularity, and a group of influential veteran players and coaches.
However, in the case of Zheng Haixia, Sui Feifei and other women's basketball celebrities were selected, Chen Nan, who helped the Chinese women's basketball team obtain the Olympic ticket, was not nominated, and it has to be said that people have some regrets.
Looking back on Chen Nan's basketball career, full of honors, behind the honor, is a tenacious struggle and desire for victory, she has stood up many times in the critical moments of the national team to save the Chinese women's basketball team, it is she who helped the Chinese women's basketball team regain its past glory.
After the defeat of the Asian Championship in 1999, the Chinese women's basketball team did not participate in the 2000 Olympic Games, the Chinese women's basketball team began to reorganize, after the retirement of the strongest center Zheng Haixia, 17-year-old Chen Nan became the most cultivated player in the Chinese women's basketball team.
At the same time, the rise of Sui Feifei, Hu Xiaotao and other newcomers has greatly increased the strength of the Chinese women's basketball team, Chen Nan and Miao Lijie formed a dual core, one inside and one outside to join forces, supporting the Chinese women's basketball team.
Chen Nan is known as the first center of the women's basketball team in Asia, and since he was selected for the national team in 1999, he has always been a powerful center in the Chinese women's basketball team with strong technology, explosive power and many offensive points.
At the peak of Chen Nan, she was the captain of the Chinese women's basketball team, and Sui Feifei could only be regarded as the number three person, and few players dared to confront her head-on.
After she retired due to illness, she was invited out of the mountain again. Now married and have children, I am not inducted into the Hall of Fame. Whose fault is it?
Chen Nan was born in 1983 in Jiaonan Peninsula, Qingdao City, Shandong Province, her father is 1.8 meters tall, her mother is 1.6 meters tall, and her parents are not "superior", with the same height as most ordinary people.
But Chen Nan was very talented when he was a child, and when he was less than 7 years old, his height reached 1.5 meters.
Her playmate jokingly told him: You really will grow up, and now you can't ride in the car for free.
The speaker has no intention, the listener intends. This sentence made Chen Nan's father realize that his daughter's height was really too high, and it was time for Chen Nan to go to school.
So he found the principal, and the principal was also stunned after seeing Chen Nan's height, and after thinking about it again, decided to make an exception to let her enroll in advance.
After going to school, the teacher did not find anything special about this child, but the height was higher than that of ordinary children, and there was no discrimination, if it had been so, Chen Nan might have become a taller ordinary person.
By the time she was 11 years old, by the time she reached the 5th grade, he was 1.7 meters taller than her mother.
Just when the sports school came to the experimental primary school for selection to see if there were some good seedlings, it was at this time that Chen Nan entered the eyes of people in the sports circle for the first time, that is, this time, she changed her destiny.
Because the sports school was afraid of affecting the development of children, primary school students were not allowed to join at that time. But for Chen Nan's sake, the Qingdao Municipal Sports School made an exception to recruit her. Since then, she has started running at both school and sports school.
In the sports school, Chen Nan was not given a final item, but started from the most basic triathlon training, that is, shot put, 100-meter running and high jump, to exercise her speed, bouncing power, body flexibility and strength.
After months of training, she was probably able to choose her future direction, so she followed her father's advice and chose basketball.
In 1995, Chen Nan, who was less than 12 years old, was sent by his father to the Hongshan Pass in Beijing, entered the Eight-One Workers Brigade, and began to receive professional basketball training.
She has a lot of basketball talent, in addition to the innate height advantage, she has a solid foundation, good physical flexibility, and fast running speed. And she has a tough personality, not squeamish at all, not only conscientiously completed the training tasks assigned by the coach, but also often arranged additional training for herself, which made her basketball level improve rapidly.
After training here for less than three years, he entered the national youth team in 1998 because of his excellent performance. In 1999, chen nan was favored by the Chinese women's basketball national team, and chen nan began his national team career.
In 2000, in order to improve the overall strength of the women's basketball team, after consultation between the Chinese and Korean Basketball Associations, the two sides decided to exchange players and referees to strengthen cooperation.
At that time, the Korean League had just been established, and there were only 6 participating teams, and excellent foreign aid was urgently needed to help them embark on the road of professionalization. So China selected 13 taller players to represent China in South Korea for a season of competition. They are known as the "thirteen sisters" who went to South Korea, especially the youngest Chen Nan performed the most eye-catching, beating the Korean local star players and winning the rebounding and scoring kings of the year in one fell swoop.
Since then, Chen Nan's image has stood in the heart of South Korea, gained a large number of fans in South Korea, and was famous in South Korea for a time.
Later, recalling this time playing in South Korea, Chen Nan believes that although she did not learn much, it was the most important part of her career.
Here is her starting point, it is this experience that makes Chen Nan realize that she is unique, she is the best, and this performance in the world arena has made her have great confidence.
It is precisely by relying on this self-confidence that she has the power of a king, and has since embarked on a life of opening and hanging.
In 2001, he won the Asian Championships;
In 2002, he won the gold medal at the Busan Asian Games;
In 2003, he helped the Chinese team to win the first place at the World University Games;
In 2004, he defended his title at the Asian Championships.
In 2005, she got a contract with the WNBA, but the head coach at the time, Maher, believed that she was not ripe to go to the United States at that time.
Fate sometimes, it's so fair, when you lose something, she makes up for you in another way.
Also in 2005, at a party of the basketball team of Shanghai Jiaotong University, she and her future husband Gongbin left a deep impression on each other at this party. After that, the relationship between the two people became closer and closer, and a romantic relationship was established.
Until 2008, in the presence of the Beijing Olympic event, the two were licensed to get married, but neither of them chose to have a wedding.
In 2009, the couple ushered in the test, Chen Nan with her outstanding performance in the Olympic Games, once again won the favor of the WNBA, with the support of her husband, she chose to join the Chicago Sky, which also made her the fourth Chinese player to land in the WNBA after Zheng Haixia, Miao Lijie and Sui Feifei.
Years of training and competition also allowed her to accumulate an injury that forced her to retire in 2011.
It is worth mentioning that before 2011, as long as Chen Nan played the game, the Chinese women's basketball team has never lost to the Japanese team that has a good life, which is the biggest pride that Chen Nan brings to the Chinese people.
After retiring, he stayed in the Bayi team and worked as an assistant coach, on May 16, 2012, she and Gongbin officially held a wedding in Beijing, and the famous star Zheng Haixia and other friends in the circle came to congratulate him, unfortunately, the men's basketball team and women's basketball team at that time did not attend because of activities.
After marriage, the two also had the crystallization of love, and thought that after returning to the family, they would spend the rest of their lives in peace until 2015.
In the 2015 Asian Championships, the women's basketball team at home lost to the Japanese women's basketball team 50-85, and the Chinese women's basketball team lost the only ticket in Asia, the Rio Olympic Games, at this time there is only one way left for the women's basketball team, that is, to lose the qualifiers.
At this time, the women's basketball team is a bit green and yellow, and it has gone down the river and has no past style. In a very helpless situation, Chen Nan, who has become a mother at the age of 33, was recalled to the national team. After a difficult recovery period, Chen Nan re-entered the game for the Chinese women's basketball team.
She still wears the No. 55 jersey that gave her countless luck, led the women's basketball team to successfully win two consecutive wins, in the quarterfinals, encountered the strong Belarusian team, this battle, Chen Nan changed his life against the sky, in 16 minutes of playing time, contributed 15 points and 7 rebounds, steadily helped the Chinese team, 84-70, won the key battle, and finally won the Rio Olympic Games.
At the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, the Chinese women's basketball team won 1 win and 4 losses, only 10th, but Chen Nan won the Olympic scoring champion in the history of the Chinese women's basketball team with a performance of 37 points.
After retiring, she trained with the Bayi women's basketball team, trying to pass on her experience as a player to younger successors and continue to point out the direction for them.
Looking back on Chen Nan's basketball road, she has received countless honors and applause, but she does not know how much sweat and pain she has paid behind her back. Chen Nan has already integrated her patriotic feelings into basketball, when she gallops and jumps on the court, she is the bright Chinese red, when she retreats to the second line to cultivate new seedlings, she is the dark red background that sets off the bright red.
Chen Nan, who is low-key, after the dissolution of the Bayi women's basketball team, there is very little news about her, but for such a meritorious veteran, several times to save the women's basketball team and moments of crisis, should not be forgotten, she deserves to remember, the Chinese Hall of Fame should have a position for him, this time can you make an exception for her again!