Do you know how difficult it is for Chinese players to want to play in the NBA?
Wang Zhizhi was banned by the media and withdrew from the national team. Yao Ming was forced to announce that he would retire on the spot if he was not allowed to go. As for Yang Hansen, a potential newcomer to the national team this year, why he did not participate in the draft, it is unknown for the time being.
From the 90s to the present, it is not ordinary for mainland players to play in the NBA, it can be said that it is difficult. In 1999, Wang Zhizhi had a chance to log in to the NBA, and he was selected by the Dallas Mavericks with the No. 37 pick, and just when the Mavericks thought they could sign Wang Zhizhi, the Bayi team pressed the pause button.
The Bayi team said that it had paid a lot to cultivate Wang Zhizhi, and the team insisted on not letting go, and the Basketball Association should take into account that Wang Zhizhi, as the mainstay of the national team, went to play in the NBA, and the national team's games could not be taken into account.
At this time, Wang Zhizhi was 24 years old, missed the best training time, when he went to report, the season had come to the end of the regular season, after playing a few games off the bench, he averaged only 7.6 minutes of playing time per game, got 4.8 points and 1.4 rebounds, and only got 4.6 minutes of playing time in the playoffs, and had no chance to prove himself, Wang Zhizhi could only hope for the summer league next season.
In the summer of 2002, the national team had two major tournaments to play in the next two major tournaments, so they started training camps, because the time of the training camp and the time of the summer league conflicted, so they communicated with the leaders of the basketball association, hoping to return to the team after the summer league, and it happened that the national team will train in the United States in the next stage, and returning to the team at that time will have no impact on the national team's game.
And the national team doesn't know what the reason, on the grounds that Wang Zhizhi has been in the United States for a long time and does not accept the national team call-up, Wang Zhizhi was removed from the national team, and for a while, domestic public opinion was flying all over the sky, and they condemned Wang Zhizhi, first blocked by the domestic media, and no longer broadcast any matches about Wang Zhizhi's home team and Dallas Mavericks.
Public opinion made such a big fuss, and he didn't even have a chance to explain, he was disheartened, and he could no longer find his original enthusiasm for basketball, and after turning three teams in five years, he left the NBA gloomily, and then Wang Zhizhi admitted his mistake and reviewed, and the Basketball Association finally lifted the ban on him and was able to wear the national team jersey to play for the country again.
Don't look at Yao Ming's prosperity in the NBA, when he was selected by the NBA, he also encountered a lot of obstacles.
As early as 2001, the Washington Wizards, who held the champion sign, had arranged for staff to go to Shanghai to negotiate with Yao Ming, and wanted to use the champion to sign him, but the Shanghai men's basketball team, as Yao Ming's home team, resolutely disagreed, on the grounds that the team had invested a lot of manpower and material resources in order to cultivate Yao Ming.
If you have to go, you can help the Shanghai team build a new stadium in Shanghai, plus a buyout fee of 30 million, which is the condition given by the Shanghai men's basketball team. The Basketball Association didn't even mention the conditions, so it scared the Wizards away, and Yao Ming missed the opportunity to log in to the NBA in 2001 in advance.
In 2002, after Yao Ming helped Shanghai win the first championship in team history, he once again put forward the idea of wanting to play in the NBA. was so angry that Yao Ming directly held a press conference and went crazy on the spot, if the team didn't let him go, he would immediately announce his retirement and no longer play basketball.
Seeing Yao Ming so tough, the Shanghai team was also afraid of the end of the chicken and egg fight, and the infamy of forcing Yao Ming to retire was on his back, and finally agreed that the gymnasium was not needed, but the training fee was still required, and a discount was given, which was equivalent to halving the cost.
And the next approach of the Basketball Association is to directly let the NBA players' union on the other side of the ocean break the defense, and directly send a special person to communicate. The condition given by the Basketball Association is that it is okay to play in the NBA, but half of Yao Ming's income must be handed over to the Basketball Association, as the future development fund of the Chinese men's basketball team, Yao Ming is equivalent to playing in the NBA, that is, working for the Basketball Association.
After active communication with the NBA players' union, the basketball association finally agreed to reduce the amount of money from half to five percentage points of income. The premise is that there are additional conditions, in order to prevent Yao Ming from following the same example, after going to play in the NBA, he refuses to play for the national team, Yao Ming is required to sign a letter of guarantee, and he cannot refuse for any reason when facing the national team call-up.
You must know that there are 82 NBA games every year, plus the playoffs, plus the training tasks of the national team, more than 100 games spanning nearly a year, even the iron man can't bear it.
After that, there was another talented player in the mainland, but it was also because of the obstruction of the Basketball Association, and he was finally depressed and discouraged. He was Xue Yuyang, who was playing for the Hong Kong Flying Dragons at the time, and in the 2003 draft, he was only 20 years old at the time, and was selected by the Dallas Mavericks with the No. 57 pick in the second round.
In the era when Yi Jianlian was not born, Xue Yuyang was the most talented player, different from Wang Zhizhi, who missed the best training value, Yao Ming, who had average mobility ability, Xue Yuyang ran and jumped very well, and also played good data in the CBA.
After learning that Xue Yuyang was going to join the NBA, the Basketball Association stood up again, saying that Xue Yuyang wanted to play in the NBA, and he needed to go through the basketball association, and pointed out that Xue Yuyang violated many regulations stipulated by the Basketball Association. was obstructed by the Basketball Association, and Xue Yuyang finally failed to make the trip.
With the disbandment of the Hong Kong Flying Dragons. Xue Yuyang began to wander in the CBA, and then suffered from injuries and gradually faded out of the public's field of vision.
The above three are all players who have the opportunity to improve the performance of the national team, but because of the short-sightedness of the Basketball Association and the independent teams, the best training opportunity has been delayed, and they will regret it for life.
Now that the Chinese men's basketball team has also fallen from the top eight in the world to the top eight in Asia, who is responsible? Can I only say that there are opinions of opinion?
can go but can't go, this may be the sadness of Chinese basketball people.
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