In basketball circles, there are many examples of halfway out of the family, such as Su Wei was originally a kayaker, and Duncan practiced swimming. But they are still engaged in sports, and they switched to basketball earlier. The cba celebrity introduced today can be described as the most legendary of the halfway monks.
Jia Xiaozhong, born in 1977, played for the Shanghai men's basketball team during the CBA. He and Yao Ming joined the Shanghai men's basketball team in the same year, and later successfully defeated the veteran team Bayi team to win the CBA championship, and for three consecutive years, they played against Liu Yudong, the god of war. After Yao Ming entered the NBA, he was once the absolute core of the Shanghai team's internal line, once slashing 38+12+5, and was called "China's version of Karl Malone" by fans at the time.
Jia Xiaozhong's legend is not only that he and Yao Ming teamed up to win the championship, but that he experienced it.
Due to his family's poverty when he was a child, Jia Xiaozhong went out to work as a teenager, worked as a repairman, and worked as a carpenter for a while. It was not until he was discovered by Li Qiuping that he entered the Shanghai Sports Brigade for professional basketball training. At that time, Jia Xiaozhong was already fifteen years old, and some of the players of his age were already famous, but he had just begun to contact basketball.
But talent is a very unfair thing. Jia Xiaozhong's learning ability is very strong, although his physical fitness cannot be fully developed due to the late start of training, but he has to practice a frightening mid-range shooting after practicing a hand, which many players who have started training since childhood have not been able to do it.
With the growth of him and Yao Ming, the Shanghai team has gradually entered its peak period. From the 99-00 season, Jia Xiaozhong began his trip to the finals for three consecutive years, and also began his peak showdown with the enemy of his life, Liu Yudong. In the first game of that year's finals, Liu Yudong gave the young Jia Xiaozhong a dismount, and the defensive end was completely exploded by the "God of War", and when attacking, Jia Xiaozhong did not have the confidence of the past, and the best shots also frequently hit iron. After the first game, Jia Xiaozhong cried alone in the bathroom for half an hour, and no one knew what he was thinking at the time. And that year, the Shanghai team also lost the championship without suspense.
The same thing continued to play out in the second season, but the "CBA Luban" made rapid progress in the confrontation with Liu Yudong. Until the third year, Jia Xiaozhong could already fight with Liu Yudong on the field, and from time to time he could cut off thirty points on the head of the "God of War", and that year, he and his Shanghai team also reached the highest point and won the CBA championship that year.
Today, the CBA star who was originally in the basketball world has retired and become a grassroots coach. With this "old carpenter" at the grassroots level, more "water delivery workers" and "waiters" will be excavated and written their own myths in the basketball world.