On June 20, Qingdao, Shandong, the first stage of the CBA rematch, Beijing Shougang Vs Liaoning Hengye, Yao Ming watched. Image source: Visual China
China News Service, July 20, 9 years ago, on July 20, Yao Ming, the banner character of Chinese basketball, officially announced his retirement. As a player, he has made remarkable achievements in both the NBA and the international arena. After retiring, he has become the chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association and is now continuing to shine for the development of Chinese basketball.
In the first 10 years of the 21st century, under the leadership of Yao Ming, the Chinese men's basketball team once again ushered in a glorious moment. In the 2006 Japan Men's Basketball World Championships and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the Chinese team reached the quarterfinals in two consecutive competitions.
Among them, the classic battles of Wang Shipeng's lore against Slovenia, fighting against the American Dream Team, almost overcoming the strong enemy of Spain, and beating Germany from the group stage, etc. are still in sight. In these games, Yao Ming is always the most reliable pillar of the team.
On February 4, 2003, Garnett (left) and Yao Ming were competing for rebounds in the NBA league.
After landing in the NBA as the No. 1 player in 2002, Yao Ming played a total of 486 NBA games in nine seasons, averaging 19 points, 9.2 rebounds, 1.6 assists and 1.9 blocks per game. But years of injuries and injuries led Yao Ming to retire in 2011. In 2016, he was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. One year later, in the long-awaited expectation, Yao Ming was elected as the chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association and is the helm of the Chinese basketball.
In last year’s men’s basketball World Cup, the Chinese men’s basketball team failed to qualify for the group at home, unable to obtain tickets for the Tokyo Olympics in advance. As the chairman of the basketball association, Yao Ming took great pressure.
After losing the last World Cup match with Nigeria, a reporter asked Yao Ming in an interview if someone must be responsible for the team's defeat, who would it be? As the chairman of the basketball association, Yao Ming resolutely replied: "I."
However, this defeat cannot erase Yao Ming's contribution to Chinese basketball. At the beginning of this year, affected by the new coronary pneumonia epidemic, the CBA fell into a prolonged shutdown. Yao Ming and his team worked hard to actively formulate anti-epidemic policies. In the end, CBA became one of the earlier domestic league matches.
Yao Ming, chairman of the China Basketball Association, raised his hands on the sidelines to celebrate. China News Agency reporter Chen Jimin
Before the rematch, Yao Ming wrote a sentence in a letter to CBA participants, "As the first national large-scale sports event to be restarted in China, the CBA rematch is a strategy for comprehensively promoting the resumption of production and restoration of life and order The significance is far-reaching, and its social impact has exceeded the basketball itself."
In the past few seasons, the CBA league under the leadership of Yao Ming has also achieved good results in the league packaging, foreign aid policies, standardized contracts and player drafts.
After the Chinese men's basketball team defeated the World Cup, FIBA Secretary-General Zag Criss still said that Yao Ming is the right person to guide and implement China's basketball reform.
In 9 years, Yao Ming turned into a female sign Sun Moon. When Yao Ming retired, the fans had a lot of reluctance. Fortunately, he left the stadium but did not leave Chinese basketball. Thank you Dayao, thank you for everything you do for Chinese basketball! (Finish)