For a long time, military basketball represents the highest level of Chinese basketball, and the Bayi men's basketball team is a typical representative of military basketball, since the official establishment of the team in 1951, the Bayi men's basketball team has always been a strong team in the domestic basketball world, with a tenacious will, a total of 8 CBA championships, including a six-consecutive championship (1996-2001), and also won 7 National Games championships, including a five-consecutive championship (1987-2005).
In the history of the Bayi men's basketball team, the most impressive is the Bayi men's basketball team led by Liu Yudong, Wang Zhizhi, Li Nan, Zhang Jinsong, and Fan Bin.
In the period of the Bayi Five Tigers, the Bayi men's basketball team in China is not only consecutive championships, but in an overwhelming way, in many consecutive finals, only Yao Ming led the Shanghai team to win a game with difficulty, the five Tigers will be combined with good offense and defense, both inside and outside, tenacious style, welcomed by countless fans.
Now almost 20 years have passed, and these former Bayi players are all moving forward along their own life trajectories, although they are all in the basketball field, but they have different ups and downs, and the status quo is different.
01 Liu Yudong (53 years old)
In 1993, Liu Yudong participated in the 7th National Games as the youngest player in the team, in the finals, Liu Yudong faced Li Chunjiang, Wu Qinglong, Li Xiaoyong, Wu Naiqun and many other national players led by the Liaoning team to cut 30+ alone, leading the team to win the championship, and since then he has become famous, known as "tank".
But as Liu Yudong shines in the domestic and foreign arenas, he gradually turns from a rampaging tank player into an undefensible shooting machine, and repeatedly stands up at critical moments.
Regarding Liu Yudong, Yao Ming once gave such an evaluation: "Liu Yudong is the only player who makes me feel that no matter how I defend it, it is useless." The 2001 National Games final was supposed to be the pinnacle duel between Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi, but Liu Yudong successfully stole the scene in the last 1 second and beat Shanghai with a three-point shot, which made Yao Ming cry on the spot.
But Liu Yudong can be called the "God of War", technology and achievements are only one of the reasons, more importantly, his iron-blooded character, tenacious will, dragging his almost disabled knees, but always beating a competitive heart, never give up, is a typical representative of the will of soldiers, so he has served as the Olympic flag bearer for two consecutive years.
In 2005, the 35-year-old Liu Yudong once again stole the limelight of Yi Jianlian, Zhu Fangyu and others at the National Games, and once again led the Bayi team to win the National Games. ”
After Liu Yudong officially retired, he stayed in the Bayi men's basketball team as the team leader, but with the withdrawal of the Bayi men's basketball team from the historical stage, Liu Yudong could only leave in tears.
In the 2021 National Games, Liu Yudong served as the leader of the Fujian men's basketball team, and in 2022, he became the chairman of the Fujian Basketball Association, and was inducted into the Chinese Basketball Hall of Fame in December of the same year, and officially entered the hall in April 2023.
Liu Yudong has a happy family, his wife was a member of the Bayi women's basketball team, and chose to study medicine after retiring, because it is convenient to take care of Liu Yudong, and his son is not suitable to be an athlete because of asthma, so he has not been engaged in the basketball industry, but has been concentrating on studying, and now he is 25 years old, with a strong personality and not a soft bone, which makes Liu Yudong very relieved.
But Liu Yudong is most at ease with the Chinese men's basketball team, he said: It's all soft bones, I don't like any of them.
02 Fan Bin (53 years old)
Fan Bin is a basketball player who played in the army, with a tenacious personality, in the early years and Liu Yudong sympathized with each other, trained hard, when Adijiang gradually grew old, Fan Bin became the main point guard of the Bayi men's basketball team, although only 1.78 meters But the defense is tough, not soft at critical moments, dare to fight.
Fan Bin and Liu Yudong are the same age, but the basketball career is more bumpy, he only entered the Bayi youth team at the age of 21, and officially played in the CBA league at the age of 27.
In the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Jiang Xingquan did not take him, and in the 2004 Athens Olympics, Harris did not take him, which made Fan Bin very regretful, before the men's basketball team went to Athens, Fan Bin said to Yao Ming: "Big brother, I can't go to Athens, don't embarrass me." ”
Fan Bin has helped Yao Ming a lot, is the person Yao Ming admires the most, for this big brother, Yao Ming has always regretted, he said: I have not been able to participate in the World Championships and the Olympics with Fan Bin who has helped him, it is my big regret.
The same is also Yi Jianlian, Fan Bin had a deep influence on Yi Jianlian when he was young, he said before the Athens Olympics: "Don't have pressure, as long as you dare to fight, you will definitely be able to do it"
Later, when Yi Jianlian recalled Fan Bin's words, he also burst into tears, he said: "When I heard Fan Bin and said this to me, my eyes were a little moist."
Fan Bin is very fierce, and he scolds people very ruthlessly, Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian These big-name players have been scolded by him, but they still respect him very much, but later when Fan Bin served as the coach of the national youth team, because of the strict requirements and strict treatment of the players, those young "big names" made the notorious "blood book door", boycott Fan Bin, it's really sad to think about it.
Perhaps this is one of the reasons why Chinese basketball is not as good as day by day, just like Liu Yudong said: These players now, they can't say or scold.
But in all fairness, Fan Bin is indeed not very good as a head coach, and after retiring, he has coached first-line teams such as Bayi Women's Basketball, Fujian Men's Basketball, and Qingdao Men's Basketball, but the results are not ideal, and the tactics that he played very slippery during the player period don't seem to be used, maybe he is not suitable to be a head coach.
Maybe Fan Bin also figured this out, since he got out of the Qingdao men's basketball team in 2018, Fan Bin no longer tried to coach the first team, but devoted himself to youth training and cultivating talents for Chinese basketball.
Fan Bin also has a happy family, his wife graduated from the Military Medical University, and after graduation, she was assigned to work in the military hospital, and the two have two daughters, who are now both grown up, and the family lives happily.
03 Zhang Jinsong (50 years old)
Zhang Jinsong is known as "Desperate San Lang", known for his accurate three-point shot and iron-blooded defense, is the last 3D player in the history of Chinese men's basketball, there is no one, in the Bayi men's basketball team, there are Wang Zhizhi, Liu Yudong, Fan Bin, Li Nan, Zhang Jinsong's ball is not much, but he can always rely on excellent prediction ability, run out of the vacancy, his defensive prediction is also excellent, whether it is in the Bayi men's basketball team or the Chinese men's basketball team, Zhang Jinsong is the first gate on the outside.
When he was a player, Zhang Jinsong and Bayi men's basketball team won 8 championships, was selected for the Chinese men's basketball team many times, won 6 Asian Championship championships, 3 Asian Games championships, and also participated in the two Olympic Games in Sydney and Athens with the team, playing an extremely key role.
Zhang Jinsong took the coaching position after retiring, and began to assist the big brother A Dijiang in 2007, and soon became the head coach of the Bayi men's basketball youth team, but with the marketization of basketball, the channel for the Bayi men's basketball team to obtain players gradually narrowed, and most of the young players flowed to the professional basketball clubs that were gradually privatized, and this is one of the reasons why the Bayi men's basketball team gradually withdrew from the historical stage.
In 2017, Zhang Jinsong was appointed as the head coach of the men's U18 youth team, led the national youth team to win the third place in the U18 Asian Championships, and then followed the team to be promoted to the head coach of the U19 youth team, and led the team to participate in the U19 Men's Basketball World Cup.
In the 2021-22 season, Zhang Jinsong became the assistant coach of the Xinjiang men's basketball team, because of his outstanding performance, he was poached to the Beijing Enterprises men's basketball team in 2022, serving as the assistant general manager and head of the coaching staff, in January 2023, the former coach of Beijing Enterprises Marbury left the team due to personal matters, Zhang Jinsong served as the acting coach, led the team to a record of 2 wins and 6 losses, and his performance was recognized.
Zhang Jinsong in 2002 and his girlfriend Zhu Xiaoye who has been in love for ten years in his hometown of Taiyuan got married, the two only had a high-profile hand at the wedding, and they have been low-key and affectionate before and after marriage, because of their careers, the two had a child in 2012, Zhang Jinsong's son is called Xiaohao, Zhang Jinsong took him everywhere to watch the game when the child was young, and cultivated his son's interest in basketball, the child is currently 11 years old, even if he does not take the basketball road in the future, he is also a loyal basketball lover.
04 Li Nan (49 years old)
Li Nan's style of play is like Gu Long's "Little Li Flying Knife", with accurate three-pointers, strong defense, and iron-blooded character, Li Nan is the main player in both the Bayi men's basketball team and the national men's basketball team, he has participated in four Olympic Games, reached the quarterfinals three times, and is the lucky general of the Chinese men's basketball team.
Li Nan's ball style is elusive, he can suddenly have a cold arrow on the outside, and he can also hit Yao Ming on the inside, which made Li Qiuping, the head coach of the Shanghai team at the time, a headache, and sighed every year: "The most headache for the Bayi team is him, because Li Nan is a shadow killer, you don't know when he appears, and you don't know where he will appear. ”
As we all know, at the peak of Yao Ming, he was the absolute core of the men's basketball team, but he was only the tactical core, and the real boss of the men's basketball team was Li Nan, because Li Nan not only had a tough personality, but also was very righteous, and even Battle admired Li Nan very much and was like a brother to him.
In 2001, the Chinese men's basketball player was bullied by the Lebanese players, and Li Nan, who was sitting on the bench to bandage the wounds, immediately picked up the scissors, rushed to the Lebanese players with lightning speed, and stabbed the Lebanese players all over the body.
In 2005, Yi Jianlian, who has always had a good temper, was bullied by Puerto Rican players, as the boss Li Nan didn't say a word, he pulled the team's younger brother Moko, and the two Northeast men rushed up directly, beat the opposing players indiscriminately, and beat the opponent to the head.
At that time, Li Nan was the captain of the national team, and he was named and criticized for taking the lead in making trouble and was severely punished, for which he had to apologize: "Dare to fight is not dare to fight, you must improve your cultivation in the future!"
Li Nan has been engaged in coaching since 2010, and has served as an assistant coach in the Chinese men's basketball team since 2010.
In April 2017, the men's basketball team reformed and began to implement the red and blue team policy, Li Nan served as the captain of the red team, and led half of the Chinese men's basketball team to win the Asian Games championship in 2018, and his coaching strength was highly recognized.
In the 2019 World Cup, the men's basketball team still led by one point until the last moment in the game against Poland, in order to be safe, he arranged for the tall Zhou Qi to send the sideline ball, but unfortunately, this time the serve was still wrong, the men's basketball team was finally tied by Poland, dragged into overtime, lost to Poland, morale plummeted, in the next game, even if the veteran Yi Jianlian fought hard, he failed to win the game, and finally missed the Tokyo Olympics.
In the midst of doubts, Li Nan ended his career as head coach of the men's basketball team and Du Feng took office, but it turned out that the deterioration of the men's basketball team may not be the reason for the head coach, but the difficulty of a clever woman to cook without rice......
After retiring from the national team coach, Li Nan is not short of work, he became the head coach of the Jiangsu Kendia team in 2020, when Li Nan took office, Kendia was a full weak team, but after two years of polishing by Li Nan, the Kendia team won the qualification of 12 into 8 in the 2022-23 season, but unfortunately, in the playoffs against the Shanghai men's basketball team, Li Nan and Li Chunjiang were questioned about the "negative game" and were deprived of coaching qualifications, Li Nan was banned for three years, and his coaching career was in jeopardy.
What makes Li Nan relieved is that he has a happy family, he and his wife Dai Min have known each other when they were teenagers, and have known each other all the way since then, and in 1999, they took advantage of the Bayi men's basketball team to get a certificate, and officially got married in 2001.
Li Nan and Dai Min gave birth to their son Li Lutong in 2002, Li Lutong is currently more than 2.1 meters tall, playing for the Jiangsu Kenya team, and has a lot of bright performances in previous seasons, but this season has very little playing time.
It is worth mentioning that Li Nan also had a second child with his wife in 2019, gave birth to a daughter, and the family lived happily.
Today's Li Nan is only 49 years old, which should be the golden period of his coaching career, and it is a bit regrettable to be banned for three years.
05 Wang Zhizhi (46 years old)
At the end of writing, I found out that Wang Zhizhi, the youngest of the 815 Tigers, is also 46 years old, these years are really unforgiving, I don't know how old you are in front of the screen? It is estimated that you have to go up at least 40, and you have chased the same group of stars, very lucky.
Back to business, when it comes to Wang Zhizhi, the first feeling of many fans is regret, as the first star of the Chinese men's basketball team to really enter the NBA, Wang Zhizhi's experience has always made the older generation of fans uneasy.
Before going abroad, Wang Zhizhi was far above Yao Ming in terms of strength and popularity, but after going abroad, because of the instigation of foreign media, Wang Zhizhi made a mistake in communication with the Chinese Basketball Association, which eventually led to Wang Zhizhi being depressed at the best time of his career, and also made the Chinese men's basketball team miss the best Wang Zhizhi.
The past is a common rage, and there is no point in discussing who is right and wrong, but fortunately, Wang Zhizhi proved himself once again after the ups and downs, and at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Wang Zhizhi's performance was eye-catching, and even almost helped the team beat the world runner-up Spain.
In the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games, Yi Jianlian was unable to play due to injury, and the 33-year-old Wang Zhizhi talked about juvenile madness, and had the courage to take responsibility, leading the Chinese men's basketball team to win the Asian Games championship at home.
Wang Zhizhi became the last head coach of the Bayi men's basketball team in 2018, but at that time, the Bayi men's basketball team was already at the end of its strength and came to the brink of decline.
After the disbandment of the Bayi men's basketball team, Wang Zhizhi continued to serve in the army, and he is currently working in the Air Force Pentathlon Team of the Military Sports Training Center as a deputy captain, and has obtained the rank of colonel.
Wang Zhizhi has experienced two marriages, the first marriage is with Song Yang, the daughter of a high-ranking cadre in the army, the two have carried the difficult years of staying in the United States together, but in the end they did not escape the seven-year itch, and divorced in a low-key manner around 2010, Wang Zhizhi lived with his son Wang Xilin.
Because of the hardships of athletes, Wang Zhizhi didn't want Wang Xilin to play at first, but as Wang Xilin got higher and higher, he inevitably played basketball, but Wang Xilin did not directly take the youth training route of professional basketball, but entered the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China to study, and currently also plays for the basketball team of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, and has played in CUBA games, but his performance is average, and he does not have his father's spirituality.
After the divorce, Wang Zhizhi was emotionally silent for many years, and later met Zhou Lei, the director of Guangxi TV Station, the two had the same interests, officially married in 2019, and harvested the crystallization of love at the end of 2022.
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Although today's Bayi Five Tigers are scattered all over the country, they are still active in the basketball field, and they have experienced ups and downs in life after retiring, but then again, how can life be smooth sailing, and it is impossible to do anything like the Bayi team back then.
The dissolution of the Bayi men's basketball team is a big regret in the hearts of Chinese fans, but if one day in the future, the former Bayi Five Tigers can get together again, it can also form a beautiful landscape.
Thank you for reading, I don't know who you like more in the 815 Tigers?
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