News on May 18, according to domestic media reports, Li Meng, a Chinese women's basketball national player who is playing in the WNBA Washington Mysterious Man, will go to Australia to meet the Chinese women's basketball team to participate in the Paris Olympic qualification match. This is also the first time that Li Meng has returned to the national team after his "extramarital affair" with former women's basketball leader Zhang Long was exposed, and it also made the previous rumor that "Li Meng was banned by the women's basketball team for 1 year" self-defeating.
A few days ago, the Washington Mysterious Man updated the roster, Li Meng is not surprisingly listed, and the only 11 people left are the final roster of the Mystic Man to compete in the WNBA this season. Li Meng also became the 8th player of the Chinese women's basketball team to officially land in the WNBA, and the fourth outside player of the Chinese women's basketball team to officially land in the WNBA after Sui Feifei, Miao Lijie and Shao Ting.
Previously, Li Meng completed her WNBA debut, and in the preseason game against Atlanta Dream, she played 18 minutes, shooting 2 of 4, 1 of 1 from the free throw line, scoring 6 points, 1 assist, 1 block and 3 turnovers.
But today, the WNBA team Los Angeles Sparks officially announced that they have cut Chinese player Yang Liwei and thanked her. According to domestic media reports, Yang Liwei's decision has nothing to do with the level of competition, mainly because of the change in FIBA's format, Yang Liwei needs to represent the Chinese women's basketball team in the FIBA Asian Cup and Paris Olympic Qualification Tournament, and the top four teams have qualified for the Olympic Games.
Domestic basketball reporter Song Xiang broke the news on social media: The source, Chinese women's basketball player Li Meng, who is currently playing for the mysterious man, will travel to Australia to meet the national team in the near future.
It is worth mentioning that previously, Li Meng was exposed that a third party intervened in the marriage of former Chinese women's basketball team leader Zhang Long, which directly caused the other party to divorce.
On the morning of March 18, Zhao Lei, the ex-wife of former Chinese women's basketball team leader Zhang Long, posted on social media angrily intimidating Zhang Long and Li Meng for engaging in "extramarital affairs".
Zhao Lei said that since the beginning of 2022, Li Meng and Zhang Long were found ambiguous during the Shanghai women's basketball training camp, and Zhang Long admitted that Li Meng took the initiative to send him selfies many times, but it was just a scene. Zhao Lei once sent a private message to Li Meng's social media, hoping that she would cherish the feathers as a national hand, but Shi Sheng sank into the sea, and Li Meng still went her own way.
In the end, 33-year-old Zhang Long abandoned his wife and abandoned his son to be with 28-year-old Li Meng, and Zhao Lei was forced to agree to divorce Zhang Long, and the two children lived with her, and Zhang Long bore half of the children's support. However, according to Zhao Lei, Zhang Long has been in arrears of more than 30,000 yuan in maintenance after his divorce.
In anger, Zhao Lei posted photos of Li Meng and Zhang Long chatting naked on social media.
After that, the Chinese Basketball Association and the Chinese women's basketball team dealt with the matter coldly, and Li Meng also went to Washington Mysterious Man at the end of April to report and chose No. 3 as his new season jersey number.
Now, Li Meng will arrive in Sydney no later than June 20 to join the women's basketball team to prepare for the Asian Cup Olympic qualifying tournament, which shows that she has never been punished internally by the women's basketball team, and the previous one-year ban is too far-fetched.
In this regard, netizens have said, "character and ball products, everyone taste"
"I don't know if other national teams deal with this kind of thing, can't they do without her"
"The strength is still strong, otherwise the national team will not let in."
"I'll just say a person, Kobe, the case in '03 put China on hold, and then he led Mengba and Mengxu to fight 2 Olympic Games, it's unlikely that China will be shelved."
"Lin Dan, Zhu Fangyu is used to this, or look at their own strength, if they don't have the strength, they have long unloaded and killed the donkey"
"Let's look at it, why should scumbags embarrass scumbags."