After the McDonald's summer training camp, Meng Xu and He Hui embarked on a flight back to China, accompanied by some staff of Nike, as well as full-time trainers and nutritionists arranged by the Spurs Club for Meng Xu.

On the second day after the end of the training camp, Meng Xu received a fax from China, as well as a call from Jiang Quan, the head coach of the current Huaguo men's national basketball team, as the only Chinese player who plays in the NBA, the Huaguo Basketball Association decided to recruit Meng Xu into the national team after careful consideration, to participate in the Olympic Games held in Sydney in September this year, because he also has to go home to visit relatives, and at the same time participate in Nike's tour promotion activities, Therefore, Meng Xu also promised to report to the national team in early August at the latest.

After reaching the quarterfinals in the last Olympic Games, the Chinese men's basketball team is also riveting to go further, but the main players who participated in the last Olympic Games are now retired, injured, the two pillars of the Chinese men's basketball team Liu Yudong and Hu Weidong are still injured, and it is uncertain what they can recover at the beginning of the Olympic Games, and some young players, such as Wang Zhizhi, Yao Ming, Guo Shiqiang, etc., lack experience in the competition, so this time the Sydney Olympics, Before the Chinese men's basketball team went out, there was already a wail in the country. So in this case, Jiang Quan, the head coach of the Huaguo men's basketball team, also decided to recruit Meng Xu into the national team against public opinion.

The first thing he did when he returned home was to buy all kinds of gifts, and followed his father to all the relatives and friends' houses one by one, enjoying the feeling of returning home. By the way, I also went to He Hui's house, Meng Xu was able to go to Wake Forest to study, or it all depended on He Hui's father, because of a daughter, and Meng Xu's father was He Hui's father who was young, and he never regarded Meng Xu as an outsider.

Father Meng, who had been scolding Meng Xu for not being a good person before, after Meng Xu returned home this time, he also kept praising Meng Xu for his prowess, and for his promising. It turned out that Daddy Meng, who used to be a substitute guard for the provincial basketball team, had a lifelong wish to enter the national team, but after retiring due to injury, Daddy Meng buried this wish in his heart, and after Meng Xu was called up by the national team this time, it could be regarded as a disguised fulfillment of Daddy Meng's wish.

Just after Meng Xu went home for less than three days, Nike's Asian tour promotion activities have begun, almost the entire July, Meng Xu was in China, Japan, South Korea and a few big cities in Southeast Asia back and forth, although because of the small basketball audience, and in Southeast Asia is not very popular, Meng Xu's trip to Southeast Asia is still a little embarrassing, in Tokyo and Seoul, although because of the large basketball audience in these two countries, the situation is a little better than in Southeast Asia, but it is also limited, And there are some extremely anti-HUA guys who protested at Meng Xu's promotion activities, so this also made Meng Xu's original dissatisfaction with these two countries directly escalate into disgust.

However, when the tour promotion activities were carried out in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, Meng Xu regained his self-confidence again, and the enthusiasm of Chinese fans for Meng Xu simply made Meng Xu stunned, and Chinese fans are much crazier than American fans. Under Nike's arrangement, Meng Xu personally gave his signed jerseys to some lucky fans everywhere he went, but in the face of tens of thousands of onlookers in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, the thousands of jerseys prepared in advance were tantamount to a drop in the bucket. As the first Chinese to enter the NBA, these fans really regard Meng Xu as Jordan.

After a full month of touring promotion, in early August 2000, Meng Xu officially went to the national team to report. In order to prepare for this year's Sydney Olympic Games, the Huaguo men's national basketball team has begun training in June, but after a series of warm-up games, the results are a little embarrassing. And this month, the Chinese men's basketball team will also leave for Seoul to play a warm-up game with the South Korean men's basketball team.

After completing the procedures for joining the team, Coach Jiang Quan directly took Meng Xu into the training venue of the Huaguo men's basketball team, clapped his hands, called all the players together, and began to introduce his new teammates to the players on the training ground.

"This is Meng Xu, your new teammate, from today he will join us and go to Sydney with us to win glory for the country." After Jiang Quan finished speaking, under his leadership, there was also a burst of sparse applause on the field.

These players, not those fans, for Meng Xu's ability, many people still have some distrust, after all, participating in the Olympics is not a joke, although Meng Xu came back with the NBA championship, but the data of 8 points and 6 boards per game in the regular season is not so convincing, and many of the players on the training ground do not know much about the real level of the NBA.

"Hello everyone, my name is Meng Xu, it's a pleasure to meet you." When he first joined the team, Meng Xu's posture was still very low, and many players in this national team were players he was familiar with when he was a child.

As soon as Jiang Quan left, Liu Yudong and Hu Weidong, the two bigwigs of the team, and some young players such as Wang Zhizhi and Yao Ming surrounded Meng Xu. As Liu Yudong and Hu Weidong, who once wanted to enter the NBA but failed to succeed, and even Wang Zhizhi, who was selected by the Mavericks last season but could not make the trip for various reasons, they still have a general understanding of the level of the NBA. As the best defensive player in the NBA last season, and Meng Xu, who shined in this year's playoffs, even if he returns to China and the CBA, he will definitely be able to call the wind and rain.

"I'll call you Xiao Meng, you won't mind." The first person to shake hands with Meng Xu was Liu Yudong, as the best small forward in China, Liu Yudong has watched a lot of Meng Xu's game videos, and recruited Meng Xu into the national team, which was first suggested by Liu Yudong to Coach Jiang Quan.

"No, no." After some greetings, several people who were already familiar with each other also sat together and chatted, Liu Yudong and Hu Weidong, the two veterans, were looking back on the past and regretted that they could not enter the NBA at their peak, while Wang Zhizhi and Yao Ming were looking forward to the future, especially Wang Zhizhi, who was already eager to enter the NBA.