Injuries are worse than tigers, and countless professional players have been dragged down by injuries on their way to the top, so that they can't fully cash in on their talents and efforts.
However, the word helpless injury is also an inevitable part of competitive sports, especially in basketball projects with physical confrontation. When it comes to future superstars whose talent is destroyed by injuries, MLB fans may think of Hardaway, Grant Hill, Roy, Rose, Oden and so on. In the history of Chinese basketball, we also have a group of players who have been destroyed by injuries, who should have been better, brighter and longer!
Among them, these five players make the author feel the most regretful.
Chen Jianghua
Point guard, this position is the most talent-poor position in the history of the Chinese men's basketball team; the name "Chen Jianghua" is to some extent synonymous with "Star of Hope".
Chen Jianghua, from the streets of Panyu in Guangzhou, broke up the street ball circle in Guangzhou at the age of 14 and appeared in the basketball feature of the New York Times in the United States. With the New York Times report, Chen Jianghua's fame grew rapidly, and his basketball career achieved continuous jumps.
In 2006, at the age of 17, he was favored by former men's basketball coach Yunas, thus becoming the first player in China to be directly selected for the national team without playing in the professional league, setting a precedent for domestic players.
At that time, the media widely believed that Chen Jianghua was the first Chinese player with the opportunity to become a world-class defender, and the one who would pass the ball to Yao Ming in the future.
Hua Tsai's physical fitness is rare in the yellow defenders. The height of 1.9 meters can easily complete 360 degree dunks, and the speed and starting speed are very fast. At the 2008 Olympic Games, Chen Jianghua dribbled from the backcourt, played Kobe Bryant, and then Paul directly pounded Huang Long's layup, which became an unforgettable classic for many fans.
The style of play is extremely American, the requirements for the strength of the body are very high, and the chance of encountering major injuries will be much higher.
In 2007, the tibia of the right ankle was fractured; in 2008, the scaphoid bone of the wrist was fractured. In 2010, the 21-year-old Chen Jianghua suffered one of the worst injuries of his career, a fractured cruciate ligament in his right knee, which was enough to make most players announce their direct retirement.
In this operation, the doctor took a small ligament at the junction of Hua Zai's knee joint and the inner thigh to implant the cruciate ligament, and warned him that if he wanted to play basketball all the time, the life of this ligament could only take 10 years, and then I was afraid that I would have to take the ligament from the other foot for surgery, and I might have pain walking for the rest of my life.
After experiencing such a big injury, Chen Jianghua has considered giving up every year. Knee injuries and standing water problems have always plagued Chen Jianghua, which is why Guangdong fans always see Hua Tsai applying ice packs on the sidelines.
With the encouragement of Du Feng and other teammates, Chen Jianghua still insisted until the age of 28, spending a full seven years to wear the ligament that was replaced.
Chen Jianghua's performance after transforming into an organizational defender is still qualified, but he can't get up fast.
The confrontation was reduced, and the speed was reduced. Along with the disappearance of characteristics, Chen Jianghua also slowly disappeared behind everyone's vision.
Up and down, praise and responsibility, Chen Jianghua has experienced very great changes in the beginning of his career.
When people accuse Hua Tsai of wasting his talents, how many people notice that the talents given by God were taken away by injuries when he was 21 years old.
Ding Jinhui
Ding Jinhui was born in an ordinary family in Zhejiang, no one in the family has ever been engaged in the sports industry, and his parents' height is only Pupu. However, perhaps it was fate's preference that made basketball choose this child who did not seem to be a player.
In junior high school, Ding Jinhui's height was more than 190cm, shoulder width, bouncing conditions were good, and he looked like a seedling playing basketball. At the suggestion of relatives, Ding's parents sent their children to a sports school in Jinyun County. In 2003, 14-year-old Ding Jinhui was recommended to the provincial sports school. In 2004, the Zhejiang Wanma Youth Team selected this child at a glance and recruited him.
About 3 years have passed since he touched basketball, and Ding Jinhui has become a new star who can grab and shoot. In the 06-07 season, the CBA debut season, Ding Jinhui averaged 14.5 points and 6.1 rebounds per game, and won the best newcomer award of the year without suspense, when he was 17 years old. In the 2007-08 season, Ding Jinhui averaged 18.6 points, 7.5 rebounds and 1.7 steals per game.
This is the real "debut is the peak". In just two years, Ding Jinhui achieved the "triple jump" from the Zhejiang Wanma second team to the first-line main force and then to the national player.
Ding Jinhui, who is full of momentum and must fight for every goal, was given the weight of the then coach Yunus, and was selected for the national team training team after the end of his second year.
The 08 Olympic men's basketball team is the pinnacle of Chinese basketball. The position of the team big list is very valuable, there are many good players, and the natural competition is quite fierce, and there are many good players.
A few days before the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games, Ding Jinhui was officially cut from the national team, and he was the last player to leave the big list.
When he mentioned this matter again in an interview last year, Ding Jinhui's tone was very flat, but the tears could not be hidden.
In the next few years of the CBA League, Ding Jinhui has been the arrow figure of Zhejiang. Ding Jinhui's performance in the league was affirmed by the then national team coach Deng Huade. Deng Huade gave Ding Jinhui the nickname of "Bulldog" and took him to the 10 Asian Games and 11 Asian Championships.
However, at the crossroads of dreams, the inhuman injury found the young player. In the Four Nations tournament before the Asian Championships, Ding Jinhui sprained his left ankle and injured the ankle ligament. In the case of serious ankle ligament injury, for the Chinese men's basketball team and his own ticket to the Olympic Games, Ding Jinhui gave two closed needles and insisted on playing the 11 Asian Championships like no one else.
Whether in the national team or the league, Ding Jinhui's performance and attitude, Howard and fans are all in the eyes. In 2012, Ding Jinhui got his wish and went to the London Olympics with the team to make up for the biggest regret of his career.
After playing the game in London, Ding Jinhui's foot injury accumulation has basically reached its limit. It also started out that he couldn't guarantee league attendance. He played only 19 games in the 2013-14 season, and then in the 2014-15 season, Ding Jinhui was reimbursed in advance after playing 10 games and went to the United States to treat his knee injury. In the 2015-16 season, the long-lost Xiao Ding returned to the starting lineup of the Zhejiang team, but lost his healthy knee to support the performance, his performance was naturally much worse than before, averaging 10 points and 4 rebounds per game Of the season data, Ding Jinhui began to become a complete role blue-collar worker in the team.
Even if he does not return to his debut in the past, after a long period of scientific recuperation, it is reasonable that the 27-year-old Ding Jinhui will gallop on the court for a few more years, which should not be a problem. Contrary to his wishes, Ding Jinhui was found to have viral myocarditis. At the golden age of 27, he had no choice but to retire and devote himself to China's basketball youth training career in recent years.
For the national team's jersey, for his missed Olympic basketball dream, at the expense of his career to play two shots of closure, is Ding Jinhui's independent choice; the sudden outbreak of viral myocarditis, had to choose to retire, is a cruel joke of fate.
Ding Jinhui, while making people regret, is even more respectful.
Song Tao
Song Tao, an unremarkable name, extraordinary talent.
As early as 14 years before Wang Zhizhi landed in the United States, the US professional basketball team has long been associated with Chinese players.
In 1984, the young and handsome Shandong boy Song Tao became famous in the domestic basketball world.
At 2 meters 08, he is comparable to the explosive bounces and slots of black players, and his rebounding ability and blocking ability are especially junior high. From all sides. Song Tao, who debuted at the beginning, was better than Yi Jianlian in his heyday in terms of explosiveness.
All of this seems to indicate that this basketball genius will eventually create a world in the basketball world.
At the 1986 World Championships, Song Tao's performance was very good. In the match against Puerto Rico, Song Tao scored 29 points, 9 rebounds, 3 blocks in the whole game, and completed seven dunks in a single game.
Because of his outstanding performance at the World Championships, he attracted the attention of NBA scouts far away on the north coast of the Pacific, and then the Eagles selected the 20-year-old "Oriental Puyu" in the NBA draft in 1987, and sent the contract and jersey to the National Sports Commission.
Unfortunately, two months after signing the contract, Song Tao lost his balance after a block in the team training, landed on the ground first, and suffered a crushing fracture on his right knee. Soon after, he slipped in the bathroom and injured an old ligament in his knee.
This unexpected injury completely announced the complete end of Song Tao's basketball career.
At the 1988 Seoul Olympics, Song Tao was already difficult to participate in the game due to injury, but Qian Chenghai knew that he still brought the first talented player in the history of the national basketball team to Seoul. Because of his tall and handsome appearance, Song Tao served as the standard-bearer of the Chinese sports delegation at the opening ceremony of the Seoul Olympic Games.
After ending his basketball career, Song Tao chose to start a business and became a successful entrepreneur. In the past 30 years, Song Tao has been reported by the media many times for actively participating in public welfare undertakings.
Before it could fly, it had crashed. Song Tao's basketball story is really lamentable.
If it is not injured, what kind of achievements this "flying teenager" will have in the NBA field may only be able to find the answer in another parallel time and space.
Xu Yong
Offense flies, defense obscures. This sentence may be the most appropriate to describe Xu Yong.
Xu Yong, may be the most powerful domestic front guard swinger in history, and his strong strike ability is a must.
After Baodao Flyer Chen Xin'an, I have never seen a Chinese player who can complete a one-man dunk with a defensive foreign aid at a fast attack. Unfortunately, the national basketball genius who "swallowed and peeled" opponents on the court was sentenced to death at the end of his second year.
The 2007-2008 CBA season was the last highlight of Xu Yong's basketball career. This year, he averaged 18.3 points per game, 6.3 boards, 3.4 assists, 1.8 breaks and 1.3 caps, and all five statistics entered the top ten in China.
In mid-May during the offseason, Xu Yong was diagnosed with "malignant central osteosarcoma of the spine" and had to accept the reality of giving up basketball and leaving the beloved battlefield. Without that damn injury, Xu Yong, now 31, is still in the year of fighting.
Injuries, every athlete will encounter, and their own training, playing style, habits have a certain relationship.
Illness can really only be explained by misfortune, because the players themselves cannot control it.
In the author's mind, this former newcomer king on the beach is the most regrettable meteor in the history of the national basketball team.
Fortunately, after retiring, in the basketball world of commentary, Xu Yong has found his own new sky again.
Yao
Yao Ming's story is very familiar to everyone, and there is no need to mention it again, so as not to make everyone sad again.
30 is the golden age for a center.
At his peak, Yao Ming, who suffered from frequent stress fractures, chose to retire.
For the causes of Yao Ming's injury, fans who probably know Chinese basketball and yao Ming know the important causes.
Now, as the president of the Chinese Basketball Association, Yao Ming is trying to reform basketball in line with China's situation.
His playing career ended early.
In the future, the basketball career of many Chinese national players will definitely be extended because of this great shore figure.