There are many rumors about Yao Ming's birth. Even on the day of Yao Ming's birth, the Xinmin Evening News also reported the news that Yao Ming was overweight. In fact, this is just a good wish of everyone, "Xinmin Evening News" was still suspended at that time, and it was only resumed two years later.
Yao Ming was born on September 12, 1980, that evening he was born in Shanghai Sixth Hospital, Yao Ming reached 5 kilograms when he was born, and his height reached 57.5 centimeters through nurses, which was indeed rare at that time, but considering that Yao Zhiyuan and Fang Fengdi were both born to play basketball, their height was originally high, which was not surprising.
After Yao Ming entered the NBA, many people questioned Yao Ming's true age, and some media reported that when Yao Ming was born, the Xinmin Evening News had reported.
However, in the 1980s, the Xinmin Evening News had not resumed publication, and because of the catastrophe of the decade, the newspaper was not published at that time, and it was not resumed until 1982.
The Xinmin Evening News did report on Yao Ming, but not in 1980, but in the third year after the resumption, on September 14, 1984, Yao Ming's fourth birthday, Jiang Jiafeng reported an article titled "A Little Pearl in the Basketball Home", which also had a photo of Yao Ming's 4th birthday.
This article does not introduce Yao Ming's birth, but introduces his early life.
Perhaps because of this report, the later media made a mistake and misunderstood the news that the Xinmin Evening News reported Yao Ming's birth.
The article reads: Voila! The chubby little guy in this photo, holding a special little leather ball in his hand, looks like he has just learned to shoot the ball, and even argues to compete with his father:
This child has just turned four years old this year, his height has reached one meter and twenty-five, and he weighs fifty-three pounds, and his mother wants to buy him thirty-two sizes of shoes! He is the son of Yao Zhiyuan, the former Shanghai men's basketball team, the main center of the Shanghai Workers' team, who is 2.08 meters tall, and The former Chinese women's basketball captain Fang Fengdi, who is 1.88 meters tall, Yao Ming.
The following year, in 1985, Basketball magazine reprinted it, and there are still traces of it. Yao Ming's birthday gift at the age of 4 is a basketball.
In 1986, Yao Ming entered a small school on Gao'an Road a year earlier, when he had grown to 1.47 meters. At that time, the American Harlem basketball team performed in Shanghai, and Fang Fengdi took Yao Ming to watch, yao Ming was very envious at that time, and also thought that one day he would have the same skills.
That year, Yao Ming moved, originally living in the staff dormitory of the Sports College, and later Yao Zhiyuan bought a house on Kangping Road, where Yao Ming spent his elementary school time.
At the age of 9, Xu Weili, who was the leader of the amateur sports school in Xuhui District, came to Yao Ming's house to introduce some sports schools to Yao Mingyuan and his wife, and they hoped that Yao Ming could go there. Yao Ming was very polite at the time, and Xu Li asked him if he would like to contribute to the country in the future. Yao Ming asked: "Can you help China win the gold medal like Uncle Li Ning?" Xu Li replied affirmatively.
Yao Ming has since entered the Xuhui District Junior Sports School to practice basketball, Yao Ming was still studying in elementary school at that time, every Friday afternoon to release students, just at the door waiting for the sports school responsible for picking up his basketball attendance with a bicycle Li Zhangming.
Yao Ming entered the sports school because there was a food subsidy at that time, due to his height, Yao Ming's meal was very large, and it was a little difficult for Yao Zhiyuan and his wife to support this half-sized child.
At the age of 10, Yao Ming participated in the basketball summer camp activities of the main force of the Shanghai Municipal Sports Bureau, Yao Ming was too tall at the time, And Fang Fengdi's idea did not have to be a professional team game, and it was also possible to get extra points for further education.
Yao Ming was often discriminated against by his classmates because of his height, Yao Ming recalled: "At that time, I was a stupid big man in the eyes of my classmates, called long-legged screws in Shanghainese. ”
At the age of 11, Yao Ming reached a height of 1.80 meters, which was very eye-catching in the class. Yao Ming's body is particularly large, in order to ensure nutrition, Yao Zhiyuan and Fang Fengdi can only save money.
When yao ming graduated from primary school at the age of 12, he entered the full-time Xuhui District Junior Sports School for formal training. At that time, through the sports school, Yao Ming met Yang Boyong, the leader of Chinese basketball, and Yang Boyong came to Shanghai from Beijing to visit Yao Ming. Special instructions to give Yao Ming a lunch subsidy of 5 yuan per day.
At that time, there was also a small defender in the team, named Liu Wei, who was born in January 1980, more than half a year older than Yao Ming. The two have a good relationship and often steal Sega's arcade machine.
One afternoon, Fang Fengdi went to the sports school, did not find Yao Ming, and looked around for her son in the school. Just when she was in a hurry, Yao Ming ran over breathlessly. It turned out that she had gone to play, and it turned out that after the training, he had gone to play for a while.
When fang Fengdi returned home in the evening, she called Yao Ming over and patiently told him about a time in the 70s that when she had to participate in a very important international competition, several team members went to play privately before the game, because when they missed the game, the Chinese team lost the game, and Yao Ming has never made the same mistake since then.
On March 6, 1994, the 15-year-old Yao Ming officially became a player in the Shanghai Men's Basketball Youth Team, and he also moved to the Shanghai Sports and Technical College.
The Shanghai men's basketball team was not a team at that time, still playing in the second division, and the ranking was also very low, and many people thought that even if Yao Ming entered the Shanghai team in the future, it would also play the second division.
Yao Ming was 1.93 meters tall at the time, but he was particularly thin.
That year, Yao Ming's good brother Liu Wei in the sports school was selected for the Shanghai men's basketball youth team together, Yao Ming was protected at that time, the economic conditions were not good, and he still drank milk every day.
Yao Ming grew taller and slept longer than others, so the team allowed Yao Ming to participate in training an hour later than other players. Liu Wei recalled: "Yao Ming would always be an hour or two late for training, and when we were doing weight training, he was still sleeping. ”
In November 1997, the 17-year-old Yao Ming entered the Shanghai men's basketball team, when the Shanghai team was already a CBA team, and Yao Ming averaged 10 points and 8.3 rebounds per game in his first year. He finished with 20.9 points and 12.9 rebounds the following year and 21.2 points, 14.6 rebounds and 5.3 blocks in the 99-20 season.
Yao Ming did not suffer any loss against the foreign aid of the CBA at that time, he won the league's fastest player, rebounding king, dunk king, block king.
The hegemon of the CBA that year was the Bayi men's basketball team, they were the CBA champions for many years, the team was full of national players, especially Wang Zhizhi was the best player of that era, Yao Ming always failed to pass the level of Wang Zhizhi. In 2001, Wang Zhizhi went to dallas Mavericks, and on April 19, 2002, Yao Ming defeated the Bayi team led by Liu Yudong to win the CBA championship, and Yao Ming was the most valuable player of the year.
At the end of the season, Yao Ming decided to participate in the NBA's draft that year, and unsurprisingly became the first foreign talent in the history of the NBA. (End)