"And the second thing I did to you is a thing that my predecessor did wrong-about the expelled Wang Zhizhi!" Li Yuanwei sighed and said.

"Actually, I'm not targeting Director Xinda, although I don't agree with other things he did, but the reason for disapproval is only a different starting point, but in this matter, I think he did it wrong, and it was very wrong."

Speaking of which, as if he was too excited, he choked on the smoke and coughed twice.

At that time, the General Administration of Sports had acquiesced to Wang Zhizhi's stay in the United States and not return to the team, but he insisted on expelling Wang Zhizhi and establishing his authority, and as a result, he shot himself in the foot at the Busan Asian Games...... I hope that after you return to the NBA, you can help me persuade Wang Zhizhi, I hope he can let go of his worries, can return to the national team, and even I can meet him in person, the Chinese men's basketball team needs him, with Wang Zhizhi plus the two of you, I believe that the Chinese men's basketball team can achieve good results in Athens next year, so that Chinese basketball will have more breathing time, and more time to try the effect of reform. ”

Li Yuanwei's voice has become much higher, and he obviously hopes that a combination like Lu Fei, Yao Ming, and Wang Zhizhi can bring the Chinese men's basketball team to a higher level.

Although he also knows that relying on the three of them alone cannot change the fundamental problem of the development of the Chinese men's basketball team, but for now, with Battle, a team with four NBA players is definitely a team full of expectations.

Lu Fei knew in his heart that Wang Zhizhi's matter was not so simple.

First of all, the media has just labeled Wang Zhizhi as a "traitor", and the fans just scolded Wang Zhizhi last year for greeting him from the eighteenth generation of his ancestors, and let them slap themselves in the face at this time, which is obviously difficult for them to accept.

Wang Zhizhi, who was also scolded, couldn't accept it, if he didn't care about coming back to play the Chinese men's basketball team in the case of an unstable career, then how aggrieved he would be when he came back to play the game.

It will take time for the wound to heal after a cut, not to mention that the knife is cut on the heart.

But even if Li Yuanwei doesn't talk about this matter, Lu Fei already has a plan to do it, when he first stepped into the national men's basketball training hall and saw that Wang Zhizhi was missing the familiar figure in the team, he was thinking about this in his mind.

He lowered his head, but his mind couldn't help but think of Li Yuanwei and Xinlancheng in his impression.

Fans scolded Xinlan City and praised Li Yuanwei.

In the media, Li Yuanwei is a reformer of Chinese basketball, and Xinlancheng is a rigid and conservative bureaucrat.

As far as Xinlancheng and Li Yuanwei are concerned, the two heads of the basketball management center have run through the history of Chinese basketball.

Li Yuanwei's pro-people image and open-minded style are more easily accepted by the media, and in contrast to it, Xinlancheng's image of not smiling and indifferent is almost the face of the bureaucratic yamen.

No matter how indifferent Xinlancheng is and how friendly Li Yuanwei is, they have one thing in common: as the director of the basketball management center, they all work in the same iron cage of the system.

The difference between Li Yuanwei and Xinlancheng lies in how to treat this "iron cage".

Li Yuanwei once served as the vice president of Beijing Sport University, the director of the Institute of Physical Education, and loved photography, wrote books and lectures, and had a strong intellectual atmosphere. He advocated that Chinese basketball should take the road of marketization, based on the professionalism of the CBA league, and promote the improvement of the overall level of Chinese basketball, thus putting forward a series of "big" slogans such as "big market, big opening, big vision".

He even launched an ambitious "North Star Project" with long-term goals that go beyond his term. He also resolutely advocated "no doubt about the use of foreign coaches for the national team, and no suspicions should be used", and almost resigned in order to protect the women's basketball coach Maher, which was quite at odds with the top management of the General Administration.

However, Li Yuanwei retired after only five years as a director, and those big slogans and grand plans came to an end.

In the reform led by the development of the league, he believes that with the implementation of the access system, local clubs can take on the important task of cultivating young reserves, in fact, many clubs are perfunctory and even steal pillars.

Xinlancheng went up to the competition department of the Olympic Organizing Committee from the position of director of the basketball management center, not "demotion" but "promotion", but most of the officials of the Olympic Organizing Committee did not continue to be "promoted" as scheduled, and he later replaced Li Yuanwei in 2009 and could only be regarded as an official reinstatement.

He advocated a national system, but only aimed at the "national" sports teams, and did not advance or regress the league system left by Li Yuanwei.

Xinlan City handed over all the management of the league to the competition department, and he had little contact with the team.

In fact, Xinlan City does not believe that the league can improve the level of players, especially the cultivation of reserves, and the club owners are absent-minded. He believes that CBA players only play 32 games a year, which is far from being comparable to the national youth team. He devoted all his energy to the establishment of the "national" team, and the teams at all levels were built one by one, long-term intensive training, and more competitions. In order to encourage the local sports bureau to pay attention to the reserve force, he went to the sports general administration to win a "U18 basketball" gold medal, which is unprecedented.

It can be said that Li Yuanwei is a romantic reformer, and Xinlancheng is a conservative nationalist.

Both of them are working in the iron cage of the system, Li Yuanwei hopes to break through the "iron cage", Xinlancheng does not expect the "iron cage" to be opened at all, because the key to the "iron cage" is not in the hands of the two of them at all.

The "iron cage" is as strong as usual, Li Yuanwei is not afraid of breaking his head and bleeding and still rushing out, and Xinlancheng stays in the "iron cage" with peace of mind, counting on the maximum benefits of the country's means.

As a result of historical development, Li Yuanwei could not change the status quo, and the "national" team carefully strengthened by Xinlan City defeated Manila.

As for the CBA league, it doesn't matter if you pay attention to it or not, because you can't change its system, black whistles are still rampant, and corruption breeds.

The tragedy of Chinese basketball is that the sturdy system of the iron cage makes your head break and bleed out, and it is not okay for An Zhiruo to stay inside.

But Li Yuanwei, who was sitting in front of him at this time, obviously looked down on his predecessor's Xinlan City.

He wanted to break out of this cage even more.

Lu Fei is noncommittal, the task of changing the Chinese Basketball Association will fall on the shoulders of the taciturn big man next to him more than ten years later, and what Lu Fei can do is to help Yao Ming as much as possible within his ability.

After Lu Fei and Yao Ming promised to help Li Yuanwei persuade Wang Zhizhi back, Yao Ming also put forward some suggestions to Li Yuanwei for the development of the Chinese men's basketball team.

One of them is to learn the NCAA and make basketball a combination of sports and education.

Li Yuanwei thought about it for a long time, kept holding the cigarette in his hand, and kept smoking.

The room was filled with smoke.

Lu Fei knows that neither he nor Yao Ming is powerless to change the status quo of Chinese basketball.

What they did was to return to the NBA, continue to improve their level, and help the Chinese men's basketball team survive the most difficult period.

Well

By the way, I also want to help Wang Zhizhi.

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After returning downstairs, Lu Fei continued to pack his luggage, because he planned to leave the national team today, and in a few days, he would fly to Seattle to start a new journey.

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