Yao Ming, chairman of the Basketball Association, was interviewed by Phoenix Satellite TV reporter Wu Xiaoli, during which he talked about why it is difficult for Chinese sports to appear world-class superstars, Yao Ming said frankly that it is because of the change in the media environment.
Yao Ming specifically said: Why can't Yao Ming come out now? can't get out of Liu Xiang, and can't get out of Li Na. Actually, it's because of the environment of the media. You're a media professional. The media environment has changed, and the emergence of self-media has enabled everyone to choose their favorite channel.
It can be said that Yao Ming thought that the birth of sports stars needed the help of the media, and he also took himself as an example, thinking that he took advantage of the traditional media and became the object of media coverage at that time, and finally achieved himself.
But Yao Ming's words still attracted a lot of controversy, and he was scolded for evading responsibility and shifting the topic, some netizens said: "Provincial stream: there is no outstanding sports talent now is the pot of the media", "You ask the southeast, northwest, I will go back to 1234", "The first time my responsibility, the second major surgery, what is the operation now", "Blame the media, blame the fans, just don't blame yourself"
The question raised by reporter Wu Xiaoli is mainly to ask which is better, the past talent training model and today's market-oriented training model. But Yao Ming did not answer positively, and in fact, most of the Chinese sports projects are indeed going downhill, even the king team of Chinese sports, the national table tennis has begun to be threatened by Japanese table tennis, the 2024 Busan World Table Tennis Championships women's team finals, the national table tennis women's team once fell behind Japanese table tennis 1-2 in a difficult situation, Olympic women's singles champion Chen Meng was defeated against the first sister of Japanese table tennis Hina Hayata, although the national table tennis women's team still reversed and won in the end, but it can still reflect that Japanese table tennis is constantly narrowing the gap with Chinese national table tennis.
And Yao Ming's basketball field is even more regressive, from the former Olympic top eight to today's consecutive missed Olympic games, after Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi, Yi Jianlian, there are no world-class outstanding athletes, Wang Zhelin, Guo Allen and Zhou Qi, who are expected to be high, have not met the expectations of the outside world, and the Chinese men's basketball team has begun to lose talent and has been surpassed by Japanese basketball. Even NBA scouts believe that the overall level of the current CBA league is worse than in the past, and in the world professional league rankings, the CBA league has also been surpassed by the Japanese B League and slipped to the second place in Asia, the Japanese B League is the first high, and the Japanese men's basketball team will also compete in the Paris Olympics.
As the chairman of the Basketball Association, he can only expand the basketball population as much as possible, hold more low-level basketball events and let more people participate in basketball.
Do you think that the development of Chinese basketball is getting worse and worse, does Yao Ming need to bear the main responsibility?
(Lin Xiaoxiang)