The leader of Chinese basketball is Yao Ming, so who was the leader before Yao Ming? I believe that the name Hu Weidong will definitely be mentioned by people, as one of the representative figures of Chinese basketball, what are the legendary experiences of this player who even the United States experts can't help but praise him as a Chinese Jordan player after watching it? Today, let's take a look at the story about him.
Hu Weidong, born in 1970 in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, entered the Jiangsu Youth Team at the age of 15, playing as a defender on the field, the ball is flowing, jumping over people, and has a precise three-point shot on the outside line. However, he is a highly myopic patient with excellent archery skills, and I believe that everyone can understand the disadvantages caused by this to an outside shooter. Even so, he did not choose to wear competition-specific glasses like others, but chose to make up for this weakness by training muscle memory, and his efforts are unimaginable to ordinary people.
In that era, the Chinese men's basketball team did not have much dazzling performance on the world-level stage. This history was rewritten by Hu Weidong. In 1994, in the final of the 12th Asian Games men's basketball team, Hu Weidong led the Chinese men's basketball team to win Asia, and in the men's basketball World Championships in the same year, the Chinese team was divided into the same group as Brazil, the United States and Spain, and the chances of qualifying from the group were very slim. However, in the first game against Brazil, Hu Weidong showed his basketball strength that did not lose to European and American players. The game scored 27 points to help the Chinese team win the opening red. Subsequently, in the match against Spain, he also successfully qualified with his steady free throws, and the Chinese team advanced to the quarterfinals of the World Championship.
On the eve of the subsequent 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, in a warm-up match with the American "Dream Three" team, Hu Weidong was in a quick attack counterattack, pulling out green onions in the dry land, and completed the dunk in front of Pippen. And Pippen's defensive ability is top notch even in the NBA, and completing such a dunk is undoubtedly a shame for countless Chinese to raise their eyebrows.
In the training camp, Hu Weidong staged a confrontation performance with Kobe Bryant, whom we know, Kobe Scored 22 points, and Hu Weidong scored 30 points, so that countless foreign fans also remembered this player from China. Later, in the Olympic games, he scored 22 points to help the Chinese team enter the Olympic final eight for the first time.
Hu Weidong hat Kobe Bryant
Later, in the Olympic games, he scored 22 points to help the Chinese team enter the Olympic final eight for the first time. Hu Weidong's growing international popularity has also been thrown by NBA teams, and in 1998 the Mavericks (Mavericks) were offered a 10-day short-term contract, followed by the Orlando Magic in 2000 who also sent him a 10-day contract, but they could not go because of injuries. It is a pity that "Asian Jordan" has not been able to enter the basketball hall of the NBA for further transformation.
In contrast, in domestic competitions, Hu Weidong is a CBA veteran, who won the first CBA regular season Most Valuable Player in history with an average of 27.8 points, 5.1 rebounds and 2.4 steals in the first season of the CBA in 1995, and then won the award in the following season. His career in the CBA is only 10 seasons, but he has won a total of 2 MVP awards, 3 scoring kings, 2 assists and 2 steals, and his dominance is evident.
Among them, in the 04-05 season against Shaanxi, Hu Weidong, who is both a coach and a player, shot 11 three-pointers and scored 55 points in the whole game. Unfortunately, in the fifth match of the finals of the same year, jiangsu team once led by 16 points in the fourth quarter, but was reversed by the Guangdong team led by Zhu Fangyu and others. In the last moment, the 35-year-old Hu Weidong also failed to create a miracle again. At this point, a generation of Chinese basketball proudly announced its retirement.