On April 30, FIBA announced the list of the 2024 FIBA Hall of Fame, and Chinese women's basketball legend Miao Lijie was among them.
Miao Lijie is the fourth Chinese basketball player to be inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame after Mou Zuoyun, Zheng Haixia and Yao Ming.
On June 3, 1981, Miao Lijie was born in Binxian County, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, and began to play for the national team in 1997, and has helped the Chinese women's basketball team achieve a series of excellent results: 2001 East Asian Games champion, 2001 Women's Asian Basketball Championship, 2002 Busan Asian Games champion, 2004 Women's Asian Basketball Championship (and MVP), 2006 Doha Asian Games champion, 2009 Women's Asian Basketball Championship, She was the champion of the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou and the champion of the 2011 Women's Asian Basketball Championship.
She is 1.78 meters tall and has outstanding scoring ability and tenacious style, and is the sharpest knife on the guard line of the women's basketball team, and is one of the core and main forces of the Chinese women's basketball team after the 2000 Olympic Games. While achieving glory for the national team, she has also made her mark on the stage of the World Series.
In the 2008 Beijing Olympics, she averaged 17.9 points per game to become the top scorer in the women's basketball program of the Olympic Games, helping the Chinese women's basketball team advance to the semifinals of the Olympic Games. At London 2012, she made her last appearance for her national team and became the assist leader, averaging 6.5 assists per game, two more than the second-place finisher.
In the domestic arena, Miao Lijie can be called a legendary star of the WCBA. She set a league personal record of 67 points that has not been broken to this day, and she was a member of the 2011 WCBA League 10-Year Team of the Year, winning five WCBA regular season MVPs, the most of any player in the WCBA league.
In 2005, she signed with the Sacramento Monarchs, a WNBA team, where she made 18 appearances that season and won a championship.
After retiring, she took over the coaching whip of the Shen women's basketball team, and later served as the head coach of the PLA youth women's basketball team. In 2017, 36-year-old Miao Lijie returned to participate in the National Games to represent the People's Liberation Army women's basketball team and won the runner-up.
Being inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame is an affirmation of Miao Lijie's contributions to his career, and it also reflects the fighting spirit of generations of Chinese women's basketball teams. It is hoped that the new generation of Chinese basketball players will draw spiritual strength, work together and forge ahead.
[Source: WeChat public account of the Chinese Basketball Association]
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