Basketball starts with breathing

Chapter 123 Be the first protester

Wang Zhizhi was banned.

A big reason is because he did not give face to the FA.

Of course, there is also the matter of Wang Fei.

In April 2002, Wang Zhizhi, who had just played a full season in the NBA, was naturally selected for the Chinese national team preparing for the 02 World Championships.

At that time, because the contract with the Mavericks had expired, Wang Zhizhi proposed to the Basketball Association that he wanted to stay in the United States to participate in the NBA Summer League in order to seek a contract and return to the team in July.

In fact, the basket management center acquiesced at that time.
When the national team was training at that time, a reporter named Jiang Weide asked when interviewing the national team coach Wang Fei, "Why hasn't Wang Zhizhi come back? Is it allowed by the Basketball Association?"

But the basket management center only acquiesced, and there is no written material,

So Wang Fei replied: "Wang Zhizhi didn't come back without the agreement of the basketball team."

Maybe it's because of the lack of communication between the two.

If it was Lu Yu, and Wang Fei was given a vaccination in advance like today, the reason would be able to make up a big push.

A stone stirred up a thousand waves, in that era when it was not very open,

Domestic media scrambled to report Wang Zhizhi's failure to return to the United States, and some media even used the word "defection".

You must know that Battelle was also playing in the NBA at that time. At that time, he did not participate in the summer league that year, but directly returned to China to participate in the training of the national team.

At that time, Yao Ming had been selected by the Rockets as the number one pick, and a group of young players born in the 80s had already attracted the attention of American teams, and it was very likely that they would participate in the NBA draft in 2003.

It is impossible for the Basketball Association to admit that it acquiesced to Wang Zhizhi's behavior, so the Basketball Association never stood up to speak, and the situation began to get out of control.

In August 2002, the Chinese men's basketball team arrived in Auckland to prepare for the World Championships.

Wang Zhizhi drove five hours to the residence of the Chinese national team, hoping to return to the team for joint training, but was rejected.

In October 2002, the Basketball Association announced that Wang Zhizhi would be expelled from the national team during the Busan Asian Games.

Of course, Wang Zhizhi's dismissal was also influenced by the defeat of the Chinese men's basketball team at the World Championships and the Busan Asian Games.

These two are simply unfounded charges.

The Chinese men's basketball team has Yao Ming and defeated Busan. I can only blame the poor performance of the Chinese men's basketball team, or bad luck, what about Wang Zhizhi?
If there is Wang Zhizhi in Busan, the Chinese men's basketball team will naturally not be defeated.

However, you didn't allow Wang Zhizhi to participate in the World Championships before the Busan Asian Games, so how could you expect Wang Zhizhi to participate in the Busan Asian Games?
The Chinese men's basketball team loses the World Championships first and then loses the Asian Games, so Wang Zhizhi cannot be blamed.

The decision to expel Wang Zhizhi from the national team was actually made after the Chinese men's basketball team defeated Busan.

Its purpose is to take Wang Zhizhi as a scapegoat because of the defeat of the World Championships and the defeat of the Asian Games.

Of course, there is also the credit of Wang Zhizhi's stupid agent.

Wang Zhizhi, who is not good at communication, and the Basketball Association, who wants to save face, finally contributed to the tragedy that affected the fate of the Chinese men's basketball team.

Lu Yu must fight for this privilege.

One is for myself, I can't play the national team every offseason, even if I'm physically fit enough, those low-level games are meaningless.

Not even the breathing method is necessarily improved in the slightest.

The second is to pave the way for the latecomers. If you have yourself crossing the river in front, and the players in the back will follow suit, you may be able to keep Wang Zhizhi and even extend Yao Ming's career.

Including those players affected by Wang Zhizhi's ban, will not lose the opportunity to enter the NBA.

Such as Xue Yuyang, Mo Ke, Tang Zhengdong...

The premise is to save enough face for the Basketball Association.

If the Basketball Association hadn't stopped CCTV's broadcast to Lu Yu this time, Lu Yu might have participated in this year's Asian Championships. After all, he was quite interested in the Lebanon game.

But now, he doesn't plan to go, he wants to leave a little hope for himself and for the future Chinese men's basketball team.

So, no matter what, he couldn't back down.

Taking a step back may be an abyss.

The phone rang, interrupting Lu Yu's thoughts.

is an unfamiliar number.

Lu Yu motioned to Wang Fei to answer the phone.

"Hello, Lu, I'm Jerry Krause, the general manager of the Bulls. I'm happy to inform you that we have acquired your signing rights from the Clippers through a trade, and we will soon become colleagues."

Klaus finally decided to trade for Lu Yu, not for anything else, just to see Jordan deflated.

Lu Yu's rejection of Jordan's trial training made him feel too cool.

What's more, Bill Cartwright brought a lot of videos of Lu Yu's university games, which proves that Lu Yu will be an excellent player.

Another point is that it is the coach's job to be responsible for winning. To a large extent, he needs to listen to the coaching staff for the selection of players, but he is still the general manager of the team, and he needs to consider whether the team can make money.

Although the league teams are still uncertain about whether they can occupy the huge Chinese market through Lu Yu, Krause is willing to try it once.

So Krause gave up the operation of letting the Clippers choose Tyson Chandler, and directly asked the other party to choose Lu Yu first, and then used his No. [-] pick to choose Chandler.

"Thank you, manager, I can't wait to integrate into the team and play with the seniors." Lu Yu smiled.

Krause said: "By the way, on July 7th, you will arrive in Salt Lake City to participate in this year's Rocky Mountain Summer League. We hope that you will play well and prove your strength."

"I will definitely be on time and give my best."

The two chatted for a while, and Lu Yu asked for the phone number of head coach Tim Floyd by the way. Although he couldn't meet immediately during this time, he wanted to take the time to chat with the head coach.

After hanging up the phone, Lu Yu smiled at Wang Fei: "The general manager of the Bulls called and told me to play the summer league. I'm afraid I will go to Chicago to report soon."

"I wish you success in Chicago!" Wang Fei raised the coffee cup in his hand.

Only when Lu Yu succeeds in the NBA this year, the Basketball Association will shut up when Lu Yu makes a choice in the future.

The more successful Lu Yu is, the tighter the Basketball Association's mouth is.

Lu Yu smiled: "If you don't succeed, don't you want me?"

"..."

Su Qun, who was sitting beside him, smiled. He didn't expect Lu Yu to be able to be humorous at this time.

Also because of Lu Yu's humor, the atmosphere that was a little depressed just now became relaxed like seeing the sun in the mist.

Su Qun knew that he didn't come in vain this time.

Although Lu Yu and Wang Fei had many conversations, he could not report, the only thing he could report was the news that Lu Yu was injured and unable to join the national team this year.

But he knew that this was just the starting point of Lu Yu's struggle against the domestic system.

And what he has to do is to be the recorder of this struggle!
Lu Yu didn't think about it that much. He wanted to fight, but his situation would be much better than Yao Ming's. First, he was not a player from the system. Second, Wang Zhizhi's previous lessons had not yet appeared, and he would not be like Yao Ming. If you are killed in that way, you will be forced to run back every summer.

Since there are always people who have to stand up and resist.

Then do the first one yourself.

……

The next day, the Chicago Daily devoted an entire page to the news that Lu Yu had joined the Chicago Bulls.

"The Gentleman of the Windy City—Lu Yu"—Chicago Daily Journal.

At the same time, the domestic "Sports Weekly" also followed up and reported the incident, and wrote such a sentence in a line of inconspicuous words at the end of the article.

"Lu Yu's wrist injury has not yet fully recovered. Even if he returns to his heart like an arrow, he will not be able to return to the national team in the short term."

When Lu Yu received a call from Wang Zhizhi and listened to him reading the newspaper, he thought to Su Qun that [-] alpacas ran past.

God's return is like an arrow!

Next, Lu Yu is going to report to Chicago, but before reporting, he has one more thing to do...

　This chapter was written only to make more readers aware of that regrettable generation...

　　
　
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