Yi Jianlian is the first person in the history of the CBA league so far, which is indisputable, both personal honor and influence on and off the field are incomparable to other domestic players. Yi Jianlian's jersey retirement ceremony is very grand, CBA company specially arranged, Guangdong Hongyuan Club carefully planned, with the Basketball Association**, CBA stars, entertainment industry stars to participate, this kind of scene is the first time in the domestic basketball world. All of this is Yi Jianlian's 20 years of loyalty in exchange, dedication, professionalism, self-discipline, can be called a model and benchmark for domestic players, and he is also one of the banner figures of Chinese basketball.
It's not easy to be at the top of an industry. Yi Jianlian's career has had a low point, he was once questioned, his NBA career was not smooth, the national team was not satisfactory, and so on. The evaluation results are naturally different depending on the reference standard. Before, everyone compared Yi Jianlian with some NBA stars, and compared him with Yao Ming. Because he is a high-pick rookie in the NBA, it stands to reason that he should be at the star level, but unfortunately Yi Jianlian failed to become an NBA star. Compared with Yao Ming, because they are all players who have gone out in China, at that time, everyone said that Yi Jianlian was not good, and the record of leading the team in the international arena was average.
When Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi retired, they found that Yi Jianlian was the strongest, and everyone gradually had a good impression of him. What players need most is to play and have consistent playing time. Staying in the NBA for a long time, Yi Jianlian may face a lot of sitting on the bench, and would rather be a chicken head than a phoenix, Yi Jianlian chose to return to the CBA and create his own world in the CBA. He has done it, and he has persevered for ten years, realizing his own value in the low-level league, creating extraordinary achievements, and his influence is unparalleled. On the stage of the domestic league, he surpassed some predecessors such as Wang Zhizhi and Liu Yudong and became the first person in the history of the domestic league.
All this that Yi Jianlian has today is the result of being loyal to his love, and 20 years of perseverance have paid off. Compared to the NBA and Europe's top leagues, our league is a mundane post. Yi Jianlian tells us that ordinary positions can still be successful and can still win respect. Foreign aid salutes him, CBA clubs officially issue documents to salute him, and the vice president of the Basketball Association attended the jersey retirement ceremony, except for Yi Jianlian, no player can do it.