"With 11 3-pointers in the whole game and 9 3-pointers in a single quarter, Meng Xu broke the long-standing Olympic record."

"With 48 points, 9 assists, and 11 rebounds, Meng Xu once again played terrifying statistics and almost led the team to overturn the dream team."

"In the 4th quarter, 9 of 12 shots, 27 points in a single quarter, Meng Xu staged the strongest battle of this Olympic Games."

"If the Olympics were 12 minutes like the NBA, I think there would have been a different result. Meng is a very special player, he has proven it in the NBA, and in the final moments of this game, although we were always in the lead, Meng Xu's performance still scared me - Tomjanovic. ”

When the game between the Chinese basketball team and the United States team ended, because Meng Xu broke too many records, the media at home and abroad were able to boast about this game. Especially the domestic media, they have almost blown Meng Xu to Jordan's position. And the head coach of the U.S. team, Tom Janovic, in an interview with reporters, undoubtedly brought this wind of praise to a new level.

On the second day of the game with the United States team, the Chinese basketball team and the group stage opponent Lithuania team, competed for the bronze medal in the men's basketball game of the Olympic Games, due to too much consumption in the game with the United States team, Meng Xu did not play many games in this game, started for 5 minutes in the first quarter, and sat on the bench to rest in the rest of the game, and when Lithuania entered the 4th quarter with a 3-point lead, Meng Xu, who returned to the court, shot and scored 21 points in the 4th quarter. directly knocked Lithuania apart, and finally relied on Meng Xu's outstanding performance in the fourth quarter, the Chinese national basketball team defeated Lithuania and won the bronze medal in the Olympic men's basketball game in history. And this result is enough to make them proud and proud of the Chinese fans whose goal before the game is only the top 8.

In this Olympic Games, the most outstanding performance of the Chinese national team is undoubtedly Meng Xu, 8 games, Meng Xu scored 5 points, 8 points, 10 points, 22 points, 14 points, 36 points, 48 points, and 27 points respectively. In less than 20 minutes per game, Meng Xu can contribute an average of 21.2 points, 5.12 rebounds, 5.6 assists, 3.6 steals, and 1 block per game, and is also the only player in this Olympic Games who can average 20+5+5 per game, and Meng Xu has also become the steal king in this Olympic Games with an average of 3.6 steals and 29 total steals per game.

"I didn't expect to get so many rewards for playing in the Olympics." After finishing all the competitions in this Olympic Games, Meng Xu has won a total of two milestone awards for the national team and an epic award for the national team. And the rest of the best lineup, steal king and other Olympic honors, also added a lot of experience points and a lot of points to Meng Xu.

On October 1, 2000, the United States team finally defeated the French team 85-75, successfully defended the Olympic championship, in this game Chinese Scat also staged the greatest and most shocking dunk in the history of the Olympic Games, because to participate in the award ceremony, all the Chinese basketball teams were on the scene to watch the game, when seeing Vince Carter directly over Frederick Weiss after the dunk, it also made Meng Xu's blood rush and breathtaking.

After participating in the closing ceremony, after the communication between the Spurs management and the Basketball Association, Meng Xu did not return to China to participate in those cumbersome celebrations, but returned directly to San Antonio from Sydney to start preparing for the NBA regular season that will start at the end of October.

Just as the Sydney Olympics were coming to an end, this year's soap opera about Tim Duncan was finally settled, and finally when Grant Hill decided to join the Magic, Duncan had a falling out with the Magic management because of a plane ticket problem, and Duncan returned to San Antonio in a fit of anger, I don't know what Popovich and David Robinson talked to him about that night, and then on the second day of Duncan's return to San Antonio, the Spurs held a press conference to announce that the Spurs would renew Tim Duncan's contract with Tim Duncan for 3 years, The total contract value is $32.6 million, and Tim Duncan also successfully stayed in San Antonio after Popovich gave up his intention to sign a long-term contract with Duncan.

After Tim Duncan's successful contract extension, the Spurs and Avery Johnson also reached a contract extension later on, with a five-year, $25 million, which is basically Avery Johnson's last contract. After Tim Duncan and Avery Johnson renewed their contracts, David Robinson, who jumped out of contract this season in order for the team to renew Tim Duncan's Avery Johnson, finally signed a three-year, $30 million contract with the Spurs. In order to allow the team to have enough salary space to renew Tim Duncan, David Robinson gave up his salary of $14.7 million a year this season and chose to jump out of the contract, after Tim Duncan signed a new contract with the Spurs, David Robinson also hopes to sign the last contract of his career with the Spurs, it is said that David Robinson's request is only 3 years and 10 million, but this contract was rejected by the management of the Spurs, David Robinson is the banner of the Spurs for more than 10 years, Even with the last pension contract, Spurs' management wants David Robinson to get the dignity and decency he deserves. So the management of the Spurs also gave David Robinson a long-prepared contract, 2 years and 20 million US dollars, but the final contract period was increased from two years to three years.

After the two biggest fish in the free market this season finally decided where to go, behind Tim Duncan and Grant Hill, Tracy McCready also announced that he would join the Magic and will form the strongest backcourt combination in the league with Grant Hill.

At the same time, in the offseason of this season, the NBA league also broke out a major deal, this deal is that the Houston Rockets made themselves their own stars, Houston's flag Hakeem Olajuwon was sent to the Toronto Raptors, last season due to injuries, Olajuwon's number of appearances and playing time are the least in his career, and Olajuwon's data is also declining miserably, in order to let the team's outside two guns advance to the position, in this offseason, the Rockets' management chose to trade Olajuwon, And the bargaining chips in the trade are just two draft picks.

And as soon as this deal was exposed by the media, it immediately caused an uproar, although in the NBA everyone shouted "It's just business." But Olajuwon is the first player to be traded after 16 years with a team. Regarding the inside story of this deal, several parties are reluctant to mention, but there are still good things to dig up some information in the media, due to Olajuwon's age, coupled with the impact of injuries, the team's management also hopes that he can step back to the second line, and assist Francis and Mobley with peace of mind, but Olajuwon said that he can still fight. Another point is that the 37-year-old Olajuwon hopes to renew a decent pension contract with the Rockets, and then retire from Houston after the contract ends, but due to the impact of the salary cap, the Rockets are only willing to provide Olajuwon with a 3-year 10.5 million contract, after many rip-offs, the Rockets increased the contract amount to 13 million, and said that it could not be more, but Olajuwon felt that this kind of contract was undoubtedly an insult to himself. When Olajuwon saw the new contract signed by his old buddy David Robinson with the Spurs, Olajuwon decided to leave the team in a fit of anger.

And the Lakers finally traded Glen Les after some bargaining, because they were unable to integrate into the triangle offensive system last season, coupled with the refusal to play after being pressed to the bench by Phil Jackson, Glen Les and Phil Jackson were completely broken. So after finishing last season's playoffs, Phil Jackson immediately instructed his assistant to trade Glen Rice, and finally after a multi-party trade with the Knicks and the Hawks, the Lakers sent away Glen Rice and got Hores Grant, Isiah Ryder and Greg Foster.