A new season of sports
Earlier today, WNBA team Los Angeles Sparks and Chicago Sky reached a blockbuster 1-for-3 deal!
Specifically: The Los Angeles Sparks sent this year's No. 8 pick, got the Chinese women's basketball center Li Yueru, and Belgian guard Julie Allemand, as well as a three-round pick in 2025.
Los Angeles Sparks posted for the first time: Welcome to Los Angeles!
Li Yueru was born in Changzhi, Shanxi Province in 1999, is 24 years old this year, is 2.01 meters tall, has an arm span of 2.07 meters, weighs 103 kilograms, plays as a center forward, and was selected by the Atlanta Dream team with the 35th overall pick in the third round in 2019. On March 31, 2022, the Chicago Sky received the right to sign Li Yueru, which opened the door to the WNBA. However, during her time with the Chicago Sky, Li Yueru did not get many playing opportunities, averaging less than 10 minutes per game in her first year. Last year, he suffered a serious injury with a third-degree cruciate ligament tear, which led to the reimbursement of the season and a direct suspension. Fortunately, the Chicago Sky did not give up Li Yueru, but actively arranged ** and retained Li Yueru's contract.
In July last year, Li Yueru returned from injury. However, she did not return to the WNBA for the first time, in order to regain her personal competitive state, as well as improve her personal skills, and the time did not conflict, Li Yueru chose to continue to play overseas and briefly joined the Besiktas team in the Turkish League. Here, Li Yueru's performance is amazing, in the ninth round of the regular season, Besiktas's 103-61 victory over Galatasaray, Li Yueru alone got 22 points, 11 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 block, and the scoring rebounds are the highest in his overseas career. Although Besiktas was eliminated in the semi-finals in Turkey in January this year, it did not prevent Li Yueru's career from flourishing.
As well as after the tempering of overseas leagues, Li Yueru's personal combat power is also steadily improving. In this year's Olympic qualifiers, the Chinese women's basketball team defeated the Puerto Rico women's basketball team 105-69, Li Yueru incarnated as 'O'Neal', and dominated the restricted area at both offensive and defensive ends. In 24 minutes of play, he scored a double-double of 22 points and 23 rebounds on 8-of-13 shooting. Especially the excellent rebounding ability, which made the Puerto Rico women's basketball team shake its head again and again. In this game, the Puerto Rico women's basketball team only had 22 rebounds, one less than Li Yueru alone. Therefore, after the Olympic qualifying round, Li Yueru successfully teamed up with teammate Li Meng and was selected as the best team in the Chinese division of the Olympic Qualifying Tournament!
The current Li Yueru, judging from the performance on the field, has significantly improved in strength and confrontation. The personal ** library is constantly updated, hook hands, basket foot, throwing, etc., as well as a relatively stable projection. At the same time, he also has an excellent sense of cooperation, and will give it to his teammates in time when he has the opportunity. Now she is no longer the interior player who relied on her height and weight to suppress the opponent at the beginning of her debut, but an all-round interior player. What makes fans even happier is that ** people reported that the Los Angeles Sparks promised to give her stable playing time in the future after trading to get Li Yueru! With time, there is an opportunity to continue to improve!
I believe that in the future, Li Yueru will play better and better, and gradually grow into a stronger world-class women's basketball team!