Yao Ming's departure also announced the end of an era, and the 08** era will come to an end. As an athlete, Yao Ming's brilliant career is the first and only Chinese player to play in the NBA, but as a basketball team leader and president of the Basketball Association, Yao Ming's performance is unsatisfactory, and the Chinese men's basketball team has missed the Olympics for 2 consecutive years.
Once upon a time, when Yao Ming became the chairman of the Basketball Association, the majority of fans were overjoyed, thinking that a star could drive the development of the Chinese men's basketball team. In fact, this heroic complex is a kind of utopia.
The presidents of American basketball and baseball are rarely paid attention to, and they are not paid much attention by fans, and their basketball is still strong. Just look at the bedside of most teenagers in American families with baseball bats hanging from the bedside. Every year, 2.4 million teenagers apply for the American Baseball League, and only a few hundred are admitted. The strength of American basketball and baseball does not depend on the ingenuity and panacea of a certain leader, but on the broad foundation of youth.
Yao Ming's work as chairman over the years has mainly been to play CBA's Jinyuan basketball, and the CBA has more sponsorships, and the players' income has increased significantly, but the level has declined. At present, the results of the Chinese men's basketball team are lower than at any time in history. In the final analysis, the reason is that we have not done a good job at the bottom of the training and selection of young people. Everyone wants to be on the rooftop, and few are willing to lay the foundation.
Yao Ming left, where will the Chinese men's basketball team go?Someone came up with a lot of shortcuts, naturalization and early naturalization of mixed-race players. There are many foreign players who are willing to naturalize, and there are also some mixed-race teenagers under the age of 18 who are willing to naturalize in China.
These shortcuts may yield results in the short term, but they are not the right path in the long run.