On August 29, Yi Jianlian posted on social media to officially bid farewell to his basketball career. In this regard, Yi Jianlian's former teammate and former national player Wang Shipeng quipped: "Finally waiting for you, welcome to join the retirement team, life after retirement is equally exciting." ”
Generally speaking, players will still engage in professional basketball-related work after retirement, among which many have transformed into CBA head coaches, such as Guangdong men's basketball coach Du Feng and Liaoning men's basketball coach Yang Ming; There are also those who go behind the scenes, such as Zhu Fangyu, general manager of Guangdong men's basketball; Others have become shareholders of the team, such as Yao Ming who bought a stake in the parent team Shanghai men's basketball team, and Jordan was the biggest owner of the Hornets.
What kind of track Yi Jianlian will choose in the future has also caused speculation from the outside world.
Transforming into a coach is indeed a good choice, and becoming the general manager of the team is also worth considering, and Yi Jianlian has another identity, that is, "businessman".
As early as 2018, Yi Jianlian began to invest. The data shows that Yi Jianlian currently directly invests in 15 enterprises, and the industry with the most investment is the business service industry. In August 2021, he and his wife Jing Ling each held 50% of the shares of Shengjunjujia (Xiamen) Equity Investment Partnership (Limited Partnership), which participated in the investment of Beijing Lezitiancheng, which owns a number of business sectors such as the trendy play brand "52TOYS", the model play community 78 Animation, and the gacha online e-commerce platform "Play Egg Fun".
In addition to being an investor, Yi Jianlian is also an "entrepreneur". He not only founded his own trendy brand us17, but also one of the shareholders of oneball, a basketball integrated service provider, which received investment from Tencent in 2018.
After retiring from the military, focusing on his business empire, Yi Jianlian's complete transformation into a "business person" is an important choice. And paying attention to the cultivation of youth basketball talents may also be the focus of this basketball man's next work.
In 2011, Yi Jianlian launched the Fire Camp Public Welfare Basketball Training Camp, which is held once a year, through the national audition, high-level young players are selected to participate in a 6-day closed training camp, and domestic and foreign basketball youth coaches are invited to participate in the teaching. Since its establishment, more than 50,000 people have participated in related basketball professional training.
On the afternoon of June 18, Yi Jianlian appeared at Qingdao Stellar Science and Technology College. In addition to helping the "2023 TCL Yi Jianlian Cup Three-Man Basketball Tournament - Qingdao Stellar Science and Technology Institute Station" that started that morning, he also signed a school-enterprise cooperation agreement with Qingdao Stellar Science and Technology College on behalf of the fireworks camp to provide more platforms and opportunities for young people who love basketball and sports to realize their ideals in life.
"I think this is an endless thing (youth basketball training), but it is something worth doing all the time, and I hope to do better in basketball and do more for the future of Chinese basketball." In an interview earlier this year, Mr. Yi said he wanted to make youth basketball training a lifelong career.
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