After the 2012 London Olympics, Chen Nan said in an interview: "Rio is too far away for me. At that time, she was ready to bid farewell to the national team, and as a result, the women's basketball team regretted losing the Asian championship without the main bone, and in desperation, the national team re-summoned Chen Nan to hang up, and that year she interpreted the return of a veteran to turn the tide.
Many times it was Chen Nan who saved the Chinese women's basketball team, entered the national team at the age of 17, temporarily retired at the age of 30, re-dressed at the age of 33, and she still repeated such a plot in the Bayi team, retiring, coming back, retiring... To a large extent, Chen Nan single-handedly supported the inside line of the Chinese women's basketball team in the 16 years from 2000 to 2016.
Those champions, those honors are all related to this name, and the only one who is trustworthy at the most critical moment is Chen Nan, who truly interprets what is called a mainstay.
Compared with her Qingdao compatriot Sui Feifei, Chen Nan did not have a father who was a basketball coach, and their whole family actually did not have much contact with sports, but the height of 1 meter 4 at the age of 6 still made her selected for sports early, and later her family sent her to Qingdao Sports School, when she practiced triathlon, but in addition to being tall, she did not achieve much excellent results on the athletic field.
The twist of the story occurred before she graduated from elementary school, Shan Ruirong, the coach of the Bayi Youth Team, came to Qingdao to select materials, he looked at the little girl with long hands and feet in front of him and thought that she was born for basketball, he persuaded the sports school to release people, so at the age of 12, Chen Nan took up her bags and stepped on the train to Beijing, even if she had not even participated in a basketball game at that time.
Shan Ruirong told her the story of Zheng Haixia, telling how the women's basketball team at the 1992 Olympic Games bravely broke into the final, she watched how Zheng Haixia dragged a huge body, how to flash and move to score the ball, she took Zheng Haixia as an example and continued to improve, but at this time the Chinese women's basketball team entered a "darkest moment".
In 1999, after Zheng Haixia retired, the women's basketball team lost successively in the Asian Games and the Asian Championships, directly lost the qualification for the Sydney Olympic Games, and the women's basketball team entered the painful period of alternating the old and the new, Gong Luming was in danger at this moment, and the first thing she had to do was to reshape the future of the women's basketball team, with Athens as the goal to select new people to enter.
So 17-year-old Chen Nan entered the national team for the first time, And Gong Luming's big change of blood allowed Sui Feifei, Miao Lijie, Ye Li, etc. to have a greater play, and this group of people began to write a new chapter in the Chinese women's basketball team.
Chen Nan was the youngest of them, and when these people all said goodbye after much difficulty, only Chen Nan was still standing there, "I want them to see that There is still Chen Nan in China." ”
In 2001, the new women's basketball team under the rule of Lu Ming in the Asian Championship Palace in Bangkok went out for the first time in the international competition, won all 6 games, averaging 33 points per game, faced Japan in the final, Chen Nan single-handedly slashed 50 points, after 6 years, the Chinese women's basketball team re-ascended to the throne of The Asian hegemon, and the invincible women's basketball team returned.
The media began to call her "Zheng Haixia second", and Chen Nan said that she could not compare with Zheng Haixia in terms of technology or experience, and there was still a considerable gap, but Haixia was always the target of her own pursuit.
In April 2002, the Bayi team led by Chen Nan and Sui Feifei won the first WCBA championship with a 2:1 victory over the Shenbu women's basketball team led by Miao Lijie. These three people have become a new engine to launch the inside and outside lines of the Chinese women's basketball team, and it will take 10 years to start.
Chen Nan, who is 1 meter 94 tall, does not have the strength of Zheng Haixia, but runs actively, is very flexible, her defense and co-defense are very good, and there is a beautiful hook hand, when there are Sui Miao and Miao on the outside line to launch an attack, the defensive end Chen Nan is the team's Dinghai God needle.
With such results, Chen Nan and his teammates walked into the field of the Athens Olympic Games, and before the game, the team set the goal of "protecting six and competing for three", and in those years, the team played better and better, and the team also began to have the confidence to expect good results, but this event also made the Chinese women's basketball team see the gap.
Three times before the group game, the women's basketball team won 1 win and 2 losses, Chen Nan averaged 19.3 points per game, Gong Luming did not dare to give her too much rest time, each game he had to fight with European and American elders for more than 30 minutes, the key fourth game, facing New Zealand, either win or leave.
That game was extremely tragic, Chen Luyun fell and retired, Ye Li left the field with five crimes, Chen Nan was also supported by his teammates, and the women's basketball team that lost three people in a row finally lost with a 2-point disadvantage, after the game, Sui Feifei said that Chen Nan was injured and went off, and the game had no chance to win.
The loss of the Olympic Games led to the departure of Gong Luming, Australian Tom Maher became the first foreign coach of the women's basketball team, when Chen Nan was favored by the WNBA team San Antonio Silver Star to give a contract similar to the monarch team to Miao Lijie and Sui Feifei, but Mach believed that the time was not ripe enough and refused to let go, which was the beginning of his estrangement with Chen Nan.
Chen Nan was relegated to a substitute in the women's basketball Asian Championship, chen Nan only got a total of 18 minutes of playing time in the first five games, not even enough time for the usual one, the group game lost to South Korea, the opponent coach provoked that Chen Nan had become mediocre, which made Chen Nan very angry, she found Mach to hope to improve the playing time.
In the final again facing South Korea, she used 25 points and 8 rebounds to directly shut up the Korean coach and help the Chinese women's basketball team defend its title successfully, when Miao Lijie and Sui Feifei did not participate in the United States, relying on Chen Nan alone, the Chinese women's basketball team can still dominate Asia.
"This is the Worst Asian Championship I have played, and it is also the best Asian Championship I have played," Chen Nan said after the game, adding that the experience made her mature and she should not be angry. And Mach also knew that the women's basketball team could not do without Chen Nan.
At the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, the Chinese women's basketball team easily won the championship, and Chen Nan served as the standard-bearer of the Chinese delegation at the closing ceremony. Everyone is fighting for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and the women's basketball girls are determined to make a difference on their doorstep.
At the Wukesong Stadium, in the first game against Spain, Mach pushed Sui Feifei to the big forward position, beating Spain by speeding up the pace and pressing the defense, while Chen Nan was always stable, with 12 points and 10 rebounds and her Wukesong debut to win two double-doubles.
The women's basketball team is also out of control, the third game against the opponent New Zealand who lost four years ago, Chen Nan handed over a perfect answer of 26 points and 17 rebounds, successful revenge, the semi-final faced Australia, Chen Nan played 21 minutes and left the injury, she only scored 6 points, but the women's basketball team still has hope to fight for a bronze medal, and the only target in front of them is the Russian team.
"The Chinese women's basketball team is a bit impatient, and the lack of experience is also the reason for the loss." When Chen Nan recalled that game, she still had regrets in her heart, she endured the pain and hard, and tried her best, facing the opponent's ace center two European Championship MVP Stepanova, Chen Nan scored 26 points and caused the opponent to leave the court with 5 fouls, but in the last moment, Becky Harmon tore the women's basketball defense line again and again, resulting in strength, and failed to win the medal, but this is also the best result in the Olympic Games since the runner-up of the 1992 Olympic Games.
"We have shown the world our own level and our hard work should be reflected in today's game." Chen Nan was able to stand and leave the court, averaging 14.9 points, 7.5 rebounds and 1.4 blocks in eight games, and even the champion center of the American team said that Chen Nan was a "world-class center".
In 2009, the 26-year-old Chen Nan joined the WNBA team Chicago Sky, debuted 11 minutes with 9 points and 3 rebounds, her efficiency is amazing, the second game 15 points, 3 rebounds and 3 steals, such performance has been better than Sui Feifei and Miao Li, the entire season 26 appearances, averaging 12.3 minutes per game, 3.7 points and 2.1 rebounds.
Such a performance will not win her a new contract, and her low back injuries will take a long time to recover, and in 2012 London she was the team's most reliant inside line.
In the 2011 Asian Championship, the women's basketball team still relies on the veteran to play the world, Miao Lijie and Chen Nan have played more than 30 minutes per game, they have entered the national team for more than ten years, there is still no one who can replace them in this decade, the replacement of the new and old women's basketball team is still a long process, at the award ceremony, the team members will hang all the gold medals on the neck of Miao Lijie and Chen Nan, and other team members will worship the women's basketball team for ten years.
She was also named to the WCBA Team of the Decade that year.
After the London Olympics, she wanted to retire in the next two years, when she was married to Gong Bin and wanted to return to her family after retiring, but the Chinese women's basketball team on the other side could not do without her.
In fact, this wedding Chen Nan also thought a lot, at that time less than three months before the Start of the London Olympic Games, and the league started early, the next year there was a task of the National Games, Chen Nan had no choice but to choose to "take time" to do the wedding during the recuperation period, and rushed to the national team to report on the second day of marriage.
Chen Nan failed to win the championship for the first time at the 2013 Asian Championships, she fixed her Asian Championship wins at 5 times, she chose to withdraw from the national team, the 2013-14 season was also her last season in the WCBA, she only played 6 games, averaging only 2 points per game, and the hero could not beat the time in the end.
The list of the Chinese women's basketball team in the 2015 Asian Championships did not have Chen Nan's name for the first time in 14 years, the women's basketball team lost to Japan, lost the qualification to directly qualify for the Rio Olympic Games, in the cruel defeat, the women's basketball team had to face the European and American strong teams, head coach Mach understood that there was no Chen Nan.
In January 2016, Chen Nan, who was promoted to a mother after 885 days, returned to the women's basketball team and faced high-intensity training, she said: "Except for the teeth and hair, it hurts all over the body." All this she had to grit her teeth and insist, the rematch faced Belarus Chen Nan cut 15 points, 7 rebounds to lead the team to advance, "four years ago I felt that the Rio Olympics were far away from me, I did not expect that now I have the opportunity to stand on the stage of the Olympic Games, to be able to go to Rio is a victory for everyone, as for the outcome of the game, it is natural." ”
That year's Rio Olympic Games, Chen Nan became the first four-dynasty elder of the Chinese women's basketball team, although she failed to qualify from the group, Chen Nan was still able to contribute an average of 7.4 points per game, and then completely retired from the national team, and the Era of chinese women's basketball that belonged to her was completely over, leaving behind 5 Asian Championship champions, 3 Asian Games champions, 2008 Beijing Olympic Final Four, 2012 London Olympic Games sixth such results.
In the Bayi team Chen Nan has not completely retired, in the 2017 National Games, the Bayi team wants to complete the 10th championship, they invited back Chen Nan with a baby and Miao Lijie, who has just become a novice mother, the two veterans are not only players but also soldiers, obeying orders is their duty.
That final was played between the Bayi team and the Guangdong team, her 3-year-old son also came to the scene to cheer for Chen Nan, Chen Nan appeared for 16 minutes and scored 12 points, but helplessly she was no longer young and could not turn the tide, she tried her best but could not do anything, and finally missed the championship.
In 2020, the Bayi basketball team was officially disbanded, the youth mark belonging to Chen Nan, Miao Lijie, sui Feifei disappeared, the familiar training hall would no longer hear the sound of basketball entering the frame, and Chen Nan also left the position of assistant coach of the Bayi team, her basketball life will still not end, she dedicated her enthusiasm to Bayi and the Chinese women's basketball team, with a full of injuries in exchange for a series of glory, her every scar is a medal of victory, twice with fatigue retirement and twice with a mission to return, Now she is a mother of two children, she enjoys her happy family life, the former Chinese women's basketball team top pillar chose to return to the ordinary.