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Editor|Xiaolu Liangren
"If one day I stopped playing basketball, I would still have a basketball-related career, and I would rather be a basketball captive..."
Sun Jun, who used to play for the CBA Jilin team, although he is known as the "Tiger King" on the field, he also had a long period of darkness, which seriously affected his career.
Fortunately, the happiness of the family has always recuperated Sun Jun, and her daughter has become a beauty, but her daughter is not engaged in basketball, but has stepped into the entertainment industry.
From glory to trough, from trough to consummation, what has Sun Jun, the "Tiger King", experienced?
Siberian tiger
Wang Bo, the current coach of the CBA Zhejiang team, once commented on Sun Jun:
"Sun Jun was a well-deserved boss at our time, as long as we trained with him to compete, we were very happy, because as long as he was on the field, we had the bottom in our hearts. ”
If the Siberian Tiger is the god of the mountains in the mountains, then the former Sun Jun can be called the patron saint on the court, although his skills are not gorgeous enough, but they are so solid that you can't imagine.
In the former CBA, Jiangsu had "China Jordan" Hu Weidong, and Hebei had "madman" Ma Jian, so Jilin's leading player naturally belonged to Sun Jun.
Interestingly, as early as when Sun Jun was young, his parents didn't pay too much attention to him, and the reason why he was able to embark on the road of basketball was only full of love...
Sun Jun was born in Changchun, Jilin Province in 1969, and his parents are both professional basketball players who often have to play games, so it is inevitable that he will neglect to take care of his son.
However, what his parents didn't expect was that although they didn't guide Sun Jun too much to play basketball, he fell in love with the sport on the sidelines of the court at a young age.
As a child, Sun Jun would always learn from his parents to play basketball in a good way, and he would even often train alone, so his movements became very non-standard after developing Xi.
Despite this, Sun Jun's skills improved by leaps and bounds, until he was 16 years old, when he was selected by the coach of the Jilin Provincial Youth Team, and thus began his career.
Because the Jilin provincial team was facing a shortage of young people at that time, the young Sun Jun also attracted much attention and soon became the starting player of the provincial team.
At that time, Sun Jun was high-spirited and played the forward position with a height of 1.98 meters, so he could often create miracles on the field, and then save the decline of the Jilin team.
With the addition of Sun Jun, the Jilin team gradually cheered up, and this group of young men became more and more like a group of fierce Siberian tigers, and Sun Jun was the well-deserved "Tiger King".
As the Tiger King, it is not only necessary to encourage teammates mentally, but also to see the truth in terms of ball skills, and Sun Jun's style of play is obviously the most unique existence in China at that time - organizing forwards.
Presumably, everyone has heard of the organization guard, but few have heard of the organization forward, because whether it is a big front or a small forward, the main task is still to break through and score, and the organization is mostly carried out by more agile guards.
However, this habitual thinking has been reversed in Sun Jun, who is like the biggest cog in the team, constantly driving his teammates to score.
Even Yao Ming praised Sun Jun's passing, saying: "It's a pleasure to watch Sun Jun's wonderful fax." ”
In addition to organizing the offense, Sun Jun's scoring ability is also very strong, and this advantage will shine in his later career.
It is worth mentioning that Sun Jun has almost never dunked in all subsequent events, but he was also a rare dunk when he was young.
When Sun Jun was 18 years old, he participated in the slam dunk contest held by CCTV and won the runner-up in the event with a chic and elegant reflexive back dunk action, and this performance was also one of the opportunities for Sun Jun to enter the national youth team.
Tiger King
In 1989, Sun Jun came to Manila with the national youth team and won the Asian Youth Championship, averaging 20 points per game, and undoubtedly became the central figure of the team.
With this "vote for fame", it is also a natural development for Sun Jun to enter the national team, but it is a pity that when he first joined the national team, there were no international competitions to play.
Sun Jun could only continue to play for the Jilin team, and led the team to create the best result in team history - third place in the CBA league.
Don't underestimate this third place, you must know that the Jilin team at that time could not be said to have any players other than Sun Jun.
And the teams in other provinces are also full of talents, if it weren't for the existence of Sun Jun, the Jilin team would probably have been relegated.
It was not until 1996 that the golden generation of the Chinese men's basketball team ushered in the opportunity to compete in the Olympics, and Sun Jun finally got the opportunity to appear on the world stage.
At that time, the men's basketball team members, everyone's eyes were filled with fire, and even when facing the American Dream Team, they never had the idea of timidity.
However, no matter how hard the Chinese men's basketball team worked at that time, it still stopped at eighth in the world, but this is still a commendable brilliant record of the Chinese men's basketball team, because they carry the spirit of never giving up.
After returning to the CBA, many teams have seen Sun Jun's potential, so there are not a few people who want to poach him.
According to people familiar with the matter, Sun Jun's monthly salary in the Jilin team at that time was only about 500 yuan, and Guangdong Hongyuan at that time directly gave him a high salary of 3,000 yuan per month.
It's a pity that because there were no transfer regulations in China at that time, and if the Jilin team didn't have Sun Jun, they might never be able to play in the first division again, so he was also "stayed" in Jilin.
During that period, Sun Jun was very depressed, and his style of play was no longer as sharp as it was back then, so that many people thought that the "Tiger King" would be lost to everyone.
However, fans still underestimate Sun Jun, and also underestimate his love for watching football.
In 1998, Sun Jun became more and more calm in the CBA league throughout the year, he almost did not have any superfluous movements on the court, and he had to score as soon as he shot, and finally won the honor of scoring champion and three-point king with an absolute advantage.
The most classic is a game in 2000, when the Jilin Northeast Tigers played against Jijun Shuangxing, Sun Jun was like a god descending to earth, and slashed 70 points with a three-point shooting rate of 64.3%, shocking fans across the country.
Seeing this, the fans realized in hindsight that the Tiger King had never been silent, especially the tiger who came down the mountain again, which was even more terrifying!
Some netizens once lamented this: If it weren't for the existence of Wang Zhizhi and Yao Ming, maybe Sun Jun would have tasted the championship with the Jilin team.
Although reality will not happen as imagined, Sun Jun's strength is beyond doubt, and even if strength aside, his integrity is also a well-talked about virtue, and the title of Tiger King is well deserved.
It's a pity that with the continuous growth of age, this tiger king is already in his 30s, and it is no longer the age to fight.
Since Sun Jun has enjoyed the honor of being the "Tiger King", and at the same time has to pay the price for this honor, that is his body.
Although Sun Jun's style of play is becoming more and more calm like an "old man", his injuries have never gone away, and the pain in his waist and spine has always tormented him.
In fact, Sun Jun also served as the captain of the national team, but he knew that it was difficult for him to continue, so it was better to quietly leave the field when he hadn't messed up...
complete
In 2005, although Sun Jun never officially announced his retirement, he had gradually faded out of the game and planned to transfer to coaching, as he himself said: I would rather be a basketball captive.
In fact, as early as 2003, Sun Jun was the coach and general manager of the Jilin team, and even if he left the center of the field, he could still be seen on the sidelines of the Jilin team.
After becoming a coach, Sun Jun finally had time to manage his own life, and he met Jiang Li, the host of Jilin Satellite TV at that time, under the introduction of a friend.
Jiang Li is very beautiful, and Sun Jun is tall and big, so the two stand together very well, and soon develop to the point of talking about marriage.
After marriage, Jiang Li slowly faded out of her career and gave birth to a lovely daughter named Sun Jingxuan for Sun Jun.
Sun Jingxuan perfectly inherited her mother's beauty and part of her father's height, and she was slim and slim, and she also served as a cheerleader in the CBA.
It's just that Sun Jingxuan did not continue to engage in basketball, but began to develop as a model and actor.
Sun Jingxuan participated in the filming of the youth drama "Time and Him, Just the Right Time" in 2022, and the costume drama "Nine Righteous People" in 2023, and the online response is not bad.
Regarding his daughter's development, Sun Jun almost never asked, as long as his daughter is happy, then let her go, and Sun Jun himself has his own basketball career, why bother to discipline his daughter too much?
In his basketball career, Sun Jun has had many highlight moments, and in his personal life, his family life is also happy and a real winner in life.
Today's Sun Jun is no longer a player, and at the same time no longer a coach, he has become the chairman of the Jilin Provincial Basketball Association, and is still contributing to the basketball career.
And Sun Jun was also inducted into the list of nominees for the Chinese Basketball Hall of Fame in 2023, and he can definitely be regarded as one of the important figures in the history of Chinese basketball.
epilogue
Sun Jun has never won a championship, but in the hearts of fans, he is still an "uncrowned king".
If there was no Sun Jun, there would be no current Jilin team, and the golden generation of the Chinese men's basketball team would not be perfect.
Even though he has encountered a low point in his career, Sun Jun has never given up, and has always forged ahead in his basketball career, and the Chinese men's basketball team will become stronger and stronger because of the existence of Sun Jun and others.
Resources:
Baidu Encyclopedia: Sun Jun
NetEase News: The 1996 Men's Basketball Olympics ended in eighth
People's Daily Online: Jilin Provincial Basketball Association was established and Sun Jun was elected chairman of the association
Sina Sports: Sun Jun shows his heroic nature, and the "elderly" Tiger King is out of the mountain again!
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