The 2022 International Basketball Women's Basketball World Cup ended in Sydney, and several joys and worries! The US women's basketball team continued to win the championship, the Chinese women's basketball team equaled the best in history and won the second place, and the Australian women's basketball team did not achieve the expected goal, and finally won the third place of this World Cup.
In the Australian women's basketball team and the Canadian women's basketball team in the third place, Australia's 41-year-old legendary star Lauren Jackson, 11 of 16 shots alone 30 points, 7 rebounds and 2 steals, in the last 2 minutes and 22 seconds of the game, Lauren Jackson was replaced after two free throws, she enjoyed the cheers of the audience. In the final game, the Australian women's basketball team won the third place in this women's basketball World Cup.
The match was also the closing match for Lauren Jackson and a milestone in her career, playing in her 43rd Women's Basketball World Cup match, equaling the Women's Basketball World Cup appearance record held by Brazilian star Janice Dos Santos.
Lauren Jackson's basketball career is legendary
In 2001, Lauren Jackson won the WNBA Draft, and since then Lauren Jackson has embarked on her basketball legend, and because of her good looks, she has been known as "the first beauty of the Australian women's basketball world".
She has won all the honors on the WNBA field that all active players can match.
Three WNBA MVP, two WNBA championships, seven WNBA All-Stars, three WNBA scoring champions, and led the Australian women's basketball team to the 2006 Women's Basketball World Cup championship, 2000, 2004, 2008 three Olympic runners-up, in 2001 Lauren Scr. Scr. was inducted into the 2021 Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.
The Beijing Olympics and Yao Ming have a good story
In 2008, when Lauren Jackson represented the Australian women's basketball team in the Beijing Olympic Games, just at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, she rushed into the Chinese delegation, hugged Yao Ming and said that she liked Yao Ming, the camera also captured and broadcast to the world, billions of people saw this emotional scene, but also let countless people spread a good story, think this is a romantic thing.
Lauren Jackson and Yao Ming are the champions of the American Professional Basketball League, Yao Ming's achievements and influence in the NBA Lauren Jackson are in the eyes, in the United States Lauren Jackson is Yao Ming's "little fan sister", Yao Ming has long admired! And also wrote a love letter to Yao Ming and published it on the Internet, the content is very affectionate to see that she has a deep affection for Yao Ming.
Unfortunately, Yao Mingxin already belonged to it, and he politely refused Lauren Jackson's show of love.
After the Beijing Olympics, the matter was over, and Lauren Jackson and Yao Ming returned to normal life. Later, Lauren Jackson married a policeman and had two sons, and Yao Ming also married Ye Li, who had a long time in the heart.
Lauren Jackson later played for several years in the Australian Women's Basketball League at the end of his career, and in 2016 Lauren Jackson chose to retire.
In the 2022 Australian women's basketball team to prepare for the World Cup, Lauren Jackson chose to make a comeback, when she was 41 years old and still a mother of two children, she used her strong willpower to help the Australian women's basketball team from the group stage all the way to the semifinals, but unfortunately met our fearless Cam Lan in the semi-finals - was blocked by the Chinese women's basketball team out of the final and won the third place.
There are also many netizens who said that Lauren Jackson's comeback this time is to follow Yao Ming's steps in the World Cup to continue the frontier! "I can only say good stories and let it become a good story forever, let future generations comment on it!"
In the third place match with the Canadian women's basketball team, the head coach also gave her enough playing time, because this is Lauren Jackson's last national team game, she also lived up to expectations, in a limited time to gain 30 points, 7 boards and 2 breaks of the data, when she was replaced by the head coach, the audience also sounded a thunderous applause, sent to the legendary superstar, and shouted "MVP", which is also an affirmation of Lauren Jackson's career, and Lauren Jackson's career ended perfectly in the World Cup!