March 16 is a Saturday.

This day is a milestone day for the Chinese basketball world.

It's not that the first game of this season's playoff playoffs will be played on this day, but because the group draw ceremony for the Basketball World Cup will be held in Deep City on this day.

As we all know, Huaxia is hosting the Basketball World Cup for the first time, and as the host, the Huaxia team directly enters the finals, and has the convenience of drawing lots, so as to become a seeded team, so as to avoid meeting with the other seven strong teams in the first round, which greatly increases the chances of entering the round of 16.

And this draw ceremony will also determine who the opponents of the Chinese team will be in the next group stage, which is very concerning.

Li Huan, as the absolute core of the national team now, naturally pays great attention to this draw ceremony.

In addition, he and Yi Jianlian, as representatives of the Chinese men's basketball team, went to Shencheng with Yao Ming, Li Nan, Du Feng and others to participate in the draw ceremony.

Yi Jianlian is the captain of the Chinese men's national basketball team, and Li Huan is now undoubtedly the hope of the national team to achieve good results.

Especially Li Huan now has the highest popularity in China, and when he appeared, it caused bursts of cheers and commotion, everyone shouted MVP, while congratulating him on winning the regular season MVP, it seemed to be expressing their love for Li Huan to teams all over the world.

The draw ceremony that night was star-studded.

Li Huan also showed his face on the background wall of the World Cup, and many media recorded Li Huan's sunny and handsome and extremely photogenic scene.

Even when he was sitting on the sidelines, Li Huan was always concerned, and several times the camera was fixed on him and Yi Jianlian.

Before the draw ceremony began, the two hosts made an opening remark in English.

Then when the host announced that Yao Ming, chairman of the CBA Basketball Association, was invited, the scene erupted in warm applause and cheers.

Yao Ming's wonderful goal began to be played on the big screen, and Yao Ming also slowly appeared on the stage from the backstage through the elevator.

The audience was boiling, and even the head coaches and player representatives of various countries couldn't help but applaud, Yao Ming is not only famous in China, in fact, his fame has already spread all over the world.

When Yao Ming walked between the two hosts, the height contrast was too obvious, and the two hosts were like children compared to Yao Ming, which showed how tall Yao Ming was.

The host must tilt his head when talking to Yao Ming, which is really the feeling of looking up.

And Yao Ming's English is very fluent, which makes the audience scream.

In fact, Yao Ming's English proficiency improved rapidly during his years in the NBA, which is also the wealth he got in the NBA, which allowed him to use English directly to talk to everyone without translation as the president of the Basketball Association.

After a few brief words, followed by the welcome of the hostess, Kobe, the global ambassador of the World Cup, took the World Cup trophy on the stage with the World Cup trophy in his hand, and the audience immediately resounded with warm applause and cheers.

As a superstar of basketball, Kobe Bryant has a huge fan base and is one of the greatest players in basketball history.

Li Huan heard the cheers of the audience, they came from different countries and regions, and their enthusiasm was all because of Kobe's strong performance in basketball.

Just as an actor must speak with his work, a player must speak with his game and goals, and Kobe Bryant has won the respect and love of others with his extremely good performance.

Li Huan is also looking forward to achieving better results on a bigger stage, and one day becoming a basketball master widely loved by fans around the world, which is also his goal.

And Kobe Bryant and Yao Ming are undoubtedly his role models.

At this time, the two world-class stars began to talk and laugh on the field.

Yao Ming recalled that when he once played with Kobe, he humorously said that his knee still hurts to the truth, which is a metaphor for being hit by Kobe in the game and injured his leg.

Kobe Bryant responded with a smile, saying that he remembered the first time he played against Yao Ming, and he felt that his shooting point was already very high, but due to the influence of Yao Ming's height, he still didn't score.

The two made a joke, and then Kobe Bryant handed the World Cup trophy to Yao Ming, Yao Ming weighed it in his hand and felt quite heavy, and then at the signal of the host, the trophy was placed in the recessed table.

Of course, the process and results of the draw attracted the most attention.

Participating in the draw this time were Kobe Bryant, the global ambassador of the Basketball World Cup, and Yang Chaoyue, the Rocket Girl 101, the ambassador of the Basketball World Cup.

I don't know if it's because of nervousness, or if N and L are not separated, before the draw ceremony, Yang Chaoyue was slurred when talking about the basketball league and the men's basketball team, and it was still wrong to repeat it, which was a little embarrassing.

Fortunately, her cute stunts are good, and she is a cute girl, so although she made a mistake, it still caused cheers from the audience.

As the host of this Basketball World Cup, Huaxia won the seeded team.

The other seven seeded teams are the United States, Spain, France, Serbia, Argentina, Lithuania and Greece.

As seeded teams, these 8 teams are divided equally into 8 groups.

According to the draw rules, the host Huaxia team is locked in Group A.

Defending champions USA are locked in Group E.

The 32 teams are divided into 8 gears, except for the Huaxia team, the other teams determine their own gears according to the world ranking.

According to this rule, Group A matches are played in the imperial capital, Group B matches are played in Jiangcheng, Group C is played in Yangcheng, Group D is played in Foshi, Group E is played in Modu, Group F is played in Jinling, Group G is played in Shencheng, and Group H is played in Guanshi.

Bryant and Yang Chaoyue each had their own division of labor at the draw ceremony.

Kobe Bryant is responsible for drawing the teams, and Yang Chaoyue is responsible for drawing the numbers of the teams from the different groups in turn.

For Li Huan and Yi Jianlian, the most concerned thing is what the opponents of the Chinese team are in the same group.

When the two teams of Venezuela and Poland, which were not too strong, entered Group A, where the Huaxia team was located, Li Huan and Yi Jian even glanced at each other and understood that the draw was good.

And when Kobe Bryant pulled Ivory Coast into Group A, Li Huan and Yi Jianlian looked at each other and smiled, both understanding that this was a sign, according to these three opponents, as long as there are no accidents, the group stage qualification is relatively stable.

As China's old rival, the Japanese team, which is among the best in Asia, was unlucky and was drawn to Group E where the United States team is located, plus Turkey and the Czech Republic in this group, the Japanese team is equivalent to entering a group of death, and the future is worrying, and the chairman of their basketball association is frowning when he sees this result.

The results of the draw were all out quickly.

The three games of the Chinese men's basketball team group stage were all played in the imperial capital, according to the draw results, the time was August 31, September 2 and 4, and the opponents were Ivory Coast, Poland and Venezuela.

Starting from Ivory Coast, which is the weakest in the group stage, is undoubtedly very beneficial to the Chinese men's basketball team and can allow everyone to have an adjustment stage.

It can be said that this draw is very beneficial to Huaxia, which is probably the welfare of the host.

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