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After Wang Zhizhi entered the NBA, he started from the bench. Just as he was about to break new ground in the NBA, an accident occurred.
In August 2002, the Men's Basketball World Championship will be held in Indiana, USA, and the Puya Games of that year will be held in September, and the Chinese men's basketball team will be trained in advance. At this time, the Chinese Basketball Association asked Wang Zhizhi to return to China in April to prepare for the World Championships.
But when the Chinese men's basketball training began, Wang Zhizhi had not seen him in the regular season in Dallas, originally the Basketball Association wanted to deal with it in a low-key manner, Wang Zhizhi did not say to the outside world, after playing the summer league, he could come back to report.
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But in early June, Jiang Weide, a reporter for Agence France-Presse in Beijing, gave head coach Wang Fei a question, asking why Wang Zhizhi did not return to the team, which also attracted outside attention. Wang Fei replied: "Wang Zhizhi's failure to return to the team on time is his personal decision, neither the Basketball Association nor the national team has approved that he can stay in the United States for a long time, and his actions have seriously affected the Preparation of the Chinese Men's Basketball Team for the World Championships and the Asian Games." ”
Wang Zhizhi was pushed to the cusp of the storm, and soon the matter also attracted attention in the United States. On June 6, Dallas Morning Post reporter Jodie Valade wrote an article in which he called Wang Zhizhi's purpose of staying in the United States complicated by "defecting and confronting the government," which is the famous sentence "Wang's rebellion against the Chinese government may end in defectionto the U.S."
Wang Zhizhi had a good friend in the United States at that time called Chen Weiming, Chen Weiming could speak some Chinese at that time, Wang Zhizhi could talk, he gave advice to Dazhi, explained the rules of the game in the NBA, and said that If Wang Zhizhi wanted to continue to stay in the NBA, he should stay in the United States to play the summer league. Wang Zhizhi was convinced, and he also hoped to compete in the 2002 Summer League to improve his strength and help him stand firm. Wang Zhizhi hopes to stay in the United States to play in the Summer League, and then join the Chinese men's basketball team when the Chinese men's basketball team participates in the World Championships.
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For the incident of no return, the leaders of the Basketball Association were very headaches. Wang Zhizhi himself is not a person who is good at expressing himself, not good at communicating with the Basketball Association and the media, because Wang Zhizhi is not returning to the United States, he and the Basketball Association lack effective communication and messengers, resulting in tension between the two sides. Coupled with media hype, the leader of the Chinese Basketball Association at the time issued a statement that expelled him from the national team. Suddenly, Wang Zhizhi became a traitor, and there was a lot of public opinion that he did not want to play for the national team.
When Wang Zhizhi was representing the Clippers in Japan for the pre-season, a Shanghai reporter went to Japan to interview Wang Zhizhi, and Dazhi chatted with the reporter in the locker room. At that time, Wang Zhizhi was unstable in the NBA and was afraid of returning to China for a long time for training, which would affect his development in the NBA in the United States. Wang Zhizhi insisted on not returning to China and stayed in the United States to play in the Summer League, resulting in being expelled from the national team.
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At the end of June, the China Basketball Management Center and the Chinese Basketball Association informed the national reporter of the incident, and Kuang Lubin, then deputy secretary general of the Chinese Basketball Association and the leader of the Chinese men's basketball team, introduced: "Before the Mavericks' playoffs ended, the national team issued a written notice to Wang Zhizhi, allowing him to quickly return to China to participate in the training of the national team. But Wang Zhizhi has not been executed, and the national team has been to several telegrams and telephone urgings. After Wang Zhizhi's contract with the Mavericks expired, he went to Los Angeles to train without approval, during which the national team persuaded Wang Zhizhi through various channels to try not to expand the matter, but it always had little effect. Wang Zhizhi will report his specific situation to the national team every weekend, but he did not leave a phone number and mailing address, which made the national team very passive. ”
The leaders of the General Administration of Sport and the General Political Department issued separate death orders that Wang Zhizhi must be "brought back" from the United States as soon as possible.
Kuang Lubin and Adi Jiang travel to the United States to save Dazhi, they represent the Basketball Center and the Bayi team respectively, and they are also the benefactors of the Dazhi Youth Team and the roommate of the Bayi Team. In order to avoid speculation from the outside world, Xu Minfeng, spokesman of the Basketball Management Center, also made a special trip to introduce the two people's itineraries to the outside world, but the two did not find Dazhi.
Because Wang Zhizhi did not participate in the Asian Games, the Basketball Association officially announced the decision to expel Wang Zhizhi from the national team on October 9.
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Li Yuanwei's appointment as director of the China Basketball Management Center became a turning point in Wang Zhizhi's no return incident.
In May 2003, Wang Zhizhi and Adi Jiang got in touch, hoping to contact the Basketball Association and admit their mistakes.
In June 2003, Li Yuanwei, who had always been regarded as a reformist, re-entered the basketball center. He knew that Dazhi was a person, and at the first time, he would work with a number of cadres of the Basketball Management Center to understand the situation, consult the archives, and draw some conclusions and opinions, including the very important "The main reason is that Dazhi took the wrong way to pursue the development of the NBA."
However, objectively speaking, there were also debatable aspects in the way the relevant personnel handled this issue at that time. These words became an important guiding ideology for the Basket Management Center to solve the Wang Zhizhi incident since then, and set the tone for the smooth resolution of the incident.
Zhang Faqiang, the chairman of the Basketball Association at that time, expressed his welcome to Wang Zhizhi's return to the national team.
In August 2003, Jiang Xingquan said that the door of the Chinese men's basketball team was still open to Wang Zhizhi.
During the Asian Championships in October 2003, Li Yuanwei issued a five-point statement, one is national cultivation, the other is who is more important in national interests and personal interests, and the third is whether patriotism is outdated. Fourth, athletes should establish an image in society, and fifth, integrity issues.
In 2006, the four years of Wang Zhizhi's career, he had the title of the first Asian and domestic player on his head, and his talent was enviable, but during the four years he was banned, the domestic regular media did not report on him. After Wang Zhizhi left Dallas, he switched to the Clippers and Heat.
At that time, Wang Zhizhi did not develop smoothly in the NBA, and after leaving Dallas, he was a marginal player in the Clippers and the Heat, and could not play the main position. He also had the idea of returning to China. Through Su Qun, Liu Yuanwei conveyed to Wang Zhizhi a message welcoming him back to China.
After the Basketball Association expressed this view, Wang Zhizhi's father Wang Weijun and girlfriend Song Yang did a lot of work, and finally Wang Zhizhi made the decision to return to China after some thought.
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On April 10, 2006, 1,600 days after leaving China, Wang Zhizhi appeared at the capital airport, which also announced the end of the Wang Zhizhi incident.
Wang Zhizhi was forgiven by the Basketball Association after returning to China, and he was also selected for the national team, representing the Chinese team at the World Basketball Championships in Japan in August and the Asian Games in Doha in December.
In 2007, Dazhi helped the Bayi team win back the CBA championship.
Four years later, in December 2010, the 33-year-old Wang Zhizhi helped the Chinese team win the championship at the Asian Games in Guangzhou. On July 5, 2016, Wang Zhizhi finally left the basketball court where he played.
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Wang Zhizhi's first marriage wife was Song Yang, Song Yang was 3 years older than Wang Zhizhi, Song Yang was originally married and had a child. The two met because Wang Zhizhi's mobile phone was out of power and borrowed Song Yang's mobile phone to make a call. In 2004, Wang Zhizhi and Song Yang gave birth to Wang Xilin.
Wang Zhizhi and Song Yang divorced suddenly, and on May 1, 19, Wang Zhizhi suddenly married Guangxi TV host Zhou Lei, who was born in 1990 and was 13 years younger than Wang Zhizhi. Some media reported that in 2010, Wang Zhizhi divorced Song Yang, who is now in the United States. The reason for his divorce from Song Yang is also speculated by the outside world, but no one knows the inside story.
During the May Day period in 19 years, Wang Zhizhi, the head coach of the Bayi team, held a wedding in Chengdu, and his current wife is called Zhou Lei, a post-90s female anchor. Zhou Lei graduated from the School of Film and Television of Sichuan Normal University. He once worked for Chengdu Tv Channel 5, hosting the program "One Second First". He is now the program host of Guangxi Satellite TV and Guangxi Variety Channel, and has participated in the recording of CCTV Spring Festival Gala programs.