If someone asks who the representative of Chinese basketball is, I think the first thing that many fans think of will be the name Yao Ming. Whether it is the "Moving Great Wall" of the player period or the "Chairman Yao" after retiring, Yao Ming's role in promoting Chinese basketball is self-evident, and he is also the undisputed first person in Chinese basketball.
However, if I change the question to who is the representative of the Chinese basketball defender line, I think the answer to this question is different. Most of the new fans will choose Guo Allen, and some old fans may choose the old captain Liu Wei. But in the heart of the editor, the representative of the Chinese defender line is that he once slashed 30 points on Kobe's head, saving the country many times for the "Asian Jordan" in the water and fire, Hu Weidong.
Hu Weidong was born in 1970, from a young age to contact the ball game, he also showed an amazing talent in basketball early on, when Hu Weidong was 15 years old, he was selected by the Jiangsu youth team, and soon began his own professional basketball road. In 1996 and 1997, Hu Weidong won the CBA regular season MVP, and he also won the CBA scoring king four times in his career, 2 assists and 2 steals, which can be described as attacking and defending.
Yao Ming once said that there are two players in China who have the strength of the NBA but have not gone to the NBA, one is Liu Yudong, the "god of war" before the knee is injured, and the other is Hu Weidong at the peak. So, how fierce was Hu Weidong at his peak? Let me give you a closer look.
In 1994, at the age of 24, Hu Weidong stormed the world championship between China and Croatia, shooting 9 of 14 three-pointers, scoring 31 points in a limited 34 minutes, and one person did not know the Croatian national team; this is not over, in the next knockout game, the Chinese team met the traditional basketball team Spain, the game was quite fierce, the two sides once fought to overtime. In overtime, Hu Weidong is like a divine soldier, continuously breaking through the opponent's defense line, the Spanish team has no choice but to stop him with fouls, Hu Weidong lived up to expectations, took away the opponent in 10 penalties and 10 in overtime, leading the Chinese men's basketball team to the world's top 8 for the first time.
Two years later, at the first Asian All-Star Game, Hu Weidong wore the No. 23 jersey to score 23 points, in that game, Hu Weidong showed his body and technology vividly in front of the world, three points, shooting, changing hands and pulling rods should have, and even in a fast attack, Hu Weidong completed the actual free throw line jump dunk, which caused the audience to exclaim one after another, and the Korean commentary on the scene was also shouting "Asian Jordan!" in English. Asian Jordan! In that game, Hu Weidong also lived up to expectations to win the mvp, and his name of "Asian Jordan" did not go away.
Hu Weidong's most famous battle was undoubtedly the one that slashed 30 points in the summer league that year. In that game, Hu Weidong can be said to have completely stolen the limelight of Kobe, and even in the game, he also flew Kobe Bryant with a big hat, and the sturdy Kobe Bryant took a rookie education class.
So, why did Hu Weidong, who is so comprehensive in both body and technology, not enter the NBA? In fact, as early as 98, there were already NBA teams to launch an invitation to Hu Weidong, when the Dallas Mavericks had already provided a contract for Hu Weidong, but at that time, due to institutional reasons, Hu Weidong was not able to go to the United States; two years later, the Magic team provided Hu Weidong with a contract without trial training, but at that time, Hu Weidong did not go to a bigger stage due to injury. When Hu Weidong retired, the Mavericks also gave him a jersey printed with No. 8 very humanely.
There are many more stories of "Asian Jordan" Hu Weidong, but the small editor can only point out the limits of space. If Chinese basketball has produced a Yao Ming in a hundred years, then I think it will take 50 years to produce a talented defender like Hu Weidong! （ikuet）