In the Olympic women's basketball qualifying tournament during the Spring Festival in 2024, the Chinese women's basketball team successfully won the Paris Olympics ticket with a record of 2 wins and 1 loss. In three games against New Zealand, France and Puerto Rico, Li Meng scored a total of 58 points, averaging 193 points, not only became the scoring champion of the event, but also was selected for the best team of the tournament with excellent performance. Li Meng, who was once cyberbullied last year, re-emerged, announced the return of the king to the fans, and once again became the key figure of the Chinese women's basketball team and the Dinghai Shenpin.
Li Meng was born in Shenyang, Liaoning Province in 1995, but she did not learn basketball but swimming because her ears often got water and caused inflammation, and she stopped learning swimming at the advice of her doctor. But since she came into contact with basketball training, Li Meng has shown basketball talent beyond ordinary people, and has grown into the mainstay of the Chinese women's basketball team step by step.
Some fans may not know that Li Meng suffered two major injuries at the beginning of his career. In 2011, Li Meng ruptured the anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee while competing for Shen, but just five months after her return, Li Meng suffered the same injury again at the City Games. These two injuries and surgeries hit Li Meng hard, but the tenacious Li Meng was not overwhelmed by the injury, and appeared in the WCBA in October 2012 and made his domestic league debut. And in this rookie season, Li Meng averaged 14 per game7 points 39 rebounds 1With 4 assists, he won the title of WCBA Rookie of the Season. In January 2013, Li Meng also won the individual championship of the WCBA All-Star Skills Event.
In January 2018, Li Meng had a best record of 40 points in the highest single game in the WCBA League, and also won the 2017-2018 regular season MVP. In the 2018-2019 season, Li Meng represented the Bayi team and averaged 25 per game in 11 playoff games2 points 38 rebounds and 65 assists 1With 6 steals, she was named the scoring champion and the most valuable player of the league title. In August 2021, Li Meng joined Sichuan Yuanda Club, and since then has helped the team win two WCBA championships, surpassing Chen Nan's 4,683 points in career total, ranking third in history.
In March 2023, Li Meng joined the WNBA Washington Mystics Club and became the 9th women's basketball player in the history of the Chinese women's basketball team to compete in the WNBA league. At the beginning of the season, because the head coach and teammates didn't know Li Meng well, she was once snubbed, not only with less ball, but also with few points. However, after gradually adapting to the rhythm of the WNBA game, Li Meng showed his teammates his accurate 3-point shooting skills and tenacious style of not being afraid of confrontation under the basket, and finally won the trust of his coach and teammates with practical actions, and became the second Chinese player to start a game in the WNBA after Zheng Haixia. And Li Meng hit 4 three-pointers in a single game, which also set the highest record for Chinese players in the WNBA. At the same time, Li Meng's total score in the WNBA also surpassed that of her predecessor Miao Lijie and became the first person in the Chinese women's basketball team in the WNBA.
In the women's national basketball team, Li Meng is also outstanding and outstanding. In the 2010 U17 World Youth Championships, Li Meng averaged 15 per game4 points 62 rebounds and 4 assists, not only helped the Chinese youth team win the third place, but also won the MVP of the event. In the 2022 Women's Basketball World Cup, in the group stage match with the United States, Li Meng scored a team-high 21 points. In the quarterfinals with France, Li Meng scored a team-high 23 points. But unfortunately, due to the intensive schedule, Li Meng's body's immune function decreased and he had a high fever, thus missing the semi-finals and finals of the World Cup. In the 2023 Women's Basketball Asian Cup, the match with South Korea in the group stage, after a difficult victory over South Korea in overtime, Li Meng scored 26 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists. In the final with Japan, Li Meng scored 17 points, 6 assists and 5 rebounds, and scored 12 points in the fourth quarter, not only helping the Chinese women's basketball team win the Asian Cup, but also she was selected for the best team in the Asian Cup.
However, Li Meng suffered cyberbullying last year because of personal emotional problems, and many fans questioned her private feelings, and many people also said that Li Meng was "knowing three and being three", which made the women's basketball team Li Meng fall into an unprecedented ** vortex. In the face of almost one-sided criticism and criticism from the outside world, Li Meng did not defend too much, but concentrated on playing in the WNBA and used his focus to create a new world in a foreign country.
Li Meng is 1At 82 meters and weighing 76 kilograms, she is a rare power forward in the Chinese women's basketball team, she is not afraid of physical confrontation, and her 3-point shot is very accurate. Because Li Meng's playing style resembles NBA star LeBron James, Li Meng got the nickname "LeBron Dream". Of course, the NBA, the all-time scoring champion, is also the idol that Li Meng worships. On the basketball court, Li Meng can break through the outside line with three points under the basket, and there are various forms of scoring, so many people say that she is the "scoring kaleidoscope" of the Chinese women's basketball team.
During the Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon, the Chinese women's basketball team did not rest, but fought on the field to qualify for the Paris Olympics. In the first game with New Zealand on February 8, the Chinese women's basketball team defeated the opponent with a score of 94:47, making a good start for this competition. Li Meng played 19 minutes in this game and scored 14 points. Because the gap in strength between the two sides was too large, Li Meng sat on the bench to rest in the fourth quarter. However, in the Sino-French Spring Festival battle on February 10, the Chinese women's basketball team encountered the oppressive defense of the opponent, and our offensive system was comprehensively suppressed by the opponent, and many players were not able to play at a normal level. Although the Chinese women's basketball team defeated France with a score of 50:82, Li Meng became the lone hero of the Chinese women's basketball team in this game, and she scored a team-high 21 points, becoming the only player in the Chinese women's basketball team to play steadily. In the third game with Puerto Rico on February 11, the Chinese women's basketball team broke out in full swing, but Li Meng was still the team's highest scorer. She played 20 minutes and had 23 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists. In the end, the Chinese women's basketball team ended perfectly with a big victory of 105:69.
Li Meng's family conditions are very hard, when she was 8 years old, her mother suffered from an incurable disease, at this time her father went out early and returned late to rent to make money, Li Meng accompanied her mother to and from the hospital every day for treatment. Therefore, in Li Meng's young heart, a seed was planted that he was not afraid of difficulties and dangers. At the same time, this special experience in his childhood also developed Li Meng's perseverance and perseverance. In the face of the ups and downs of her career, Li Meng showed her stubbornness in not admitting defeat, so in this Olympic qualifying tournament, Li Meng once again became the offensive reliance and anchor of the Chinese women's basketball team. And Li Meng has left a deep impression on fans in three games, whether it is a confrontation under the basket, an offense with the ball or an outside three-pointer. Li Meng averaged 19 per game in three games3 points, 2 rebounds, 16 assists, worthy of the kaleidoscope of the Chinese women's basketball team's offensive line and the team's Dinghai Shenpin.