Before departure, the final 12-man roster of the men's basketball team was determined and announced.

Center: Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi.

Power forwards: Yi Jianlian, Moko, Du Feng.

Small forwards: Zhu Fangyu, Sun Yue.

Scoring guards: Wang Jun, Wang Shipeng.

Point guards: Liu Wei, Chen Jianghua, Zhang Qingpeng.

Interior player Zhang Songtao regretted losing at the last moment, and in the face of the three-point tactics of European teams, his defense was tight, and he could only be used as a bench.

Bayi's Moko relied on mobility and longer range to stay, although he was a bit short-tempered and had more experience in international competitions than Zhang Songtao. At the 2004 Athens Olympics, Moko once replaced Yi Jianlian as the starting power forward of the national team, averaging 4.3 points and 3.6 rebounds per game.

This time, though, Moko will certainly have to be on the periphery of the inside, which is bad news for him, but it's the reason why the fans are happy, and this time the squad depth is much stronger than in 2004.

The Chinese men's basketball team departed from the Kunshan Hotel at 4 a.m. to Shanghai Pudong Airport, and most of the players took a flight at 8:15 a.m. to Sapporo, Japan, led by team leader Xue Yunfei. Some officers and a small group of team members transferred from Osaka, and they arrived in Sapporo at 4 p.m.

Wang Jun flew directly to Sapporo, and many media outlets have already received the news and are ready to interview him.

Yao Ming was on the other side with the officials, which was deliberately arranged, and it was not easy to mess up during the interview.

In fact, this is also to take care of Yao Ming's mood, if you go out of the airport and see that the attention of reporters and fans is on Wang Jun, and Yao Ming is on the side, this kind of thing is too exciting. According to Wang Jun's current popularity, it is very likely to happen.

Abby and Wang Jun were temporarily separated, and arrived in Japan three days early with ESPN videographer Robert, where she needed to do some work preparations.

During the training camp, Robert filmed a lot of tidbits. said that it was an interview with the Chinese team, but it was more like a documentary that tracked and interviewed three stars.

When the radio leaders asked for such a filming, they mainly focused on Wang Jun, Yao Ming, and Yi Jianlian, and the others did not know the American audience if they filmed too much. Needless to say, the first two are favored by Yi Jianlian as the next Chinese player to enter the NBA.

During the flight, Wang Jun and Yi Jianlian sat together and chatted. Talking about video games.

After chatting for a while, Yi Jianlian suddenly said: "What do you think of Liu Yifei, if I chase her, is it possible to succeed?" ”

Yi Jianlian, who was hit by Wang Jun's words, almost opened the hatch and parachuted, he asked very seriously: "Who is Liu Yifei?" ”

Yi Jian remembered that Wang Jun went abroad very early, and Liu Yifei only made his debut in 2003 to play Wang Yuyan in the bearded version of "Dragon Babu", and it is normal not to know.

He thought for a moment and explained, "It's the one that was filming the Yili commercial with me, and it was supposed to be filmed with you." ”

Recently, Yi Jianlian and Liu Yifei filmed Yili yogurt advertisement together. After the two met, there was a scandal, and many people felt that they were very compatible. Yi Jianlian also had a little idea after seeing the "fairy sister".

"Oh." Wang Jun paused for a moment and said with a smile: "Is she developing in China?" You don't want to play in the NBA anymore? ”

"Uh......" Yi Jianlian suddenly lost any thoughts, why did Wang Jun speak so sharply?

Even if he can catch up with the other party and go to the United States next season to participate in the draft, this is the love of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl, let's play hard.

The two talked about basketball. There are several young people in the team, Wang Jun is the most optimistic about Yi Jianlian. He's young and can shoot. The physical fitness is better than Yao Ming, which reminds him of the rookie Bosh in the same class.

If Yi Jianlian participates in the draft next year, the ranking will definitely not be low.

In the 2004-05 season, he averaged 19.8 points and 9.7 rebounds per game in the Finals, becoming the youngest Finals MVP player in CBA history.

In the 2005-06 season, he averaged 20.5 points and 9.7 rebounds per game in Guangdong, and also won the championship with the team.

Even if Wang Zhizhi comes back. Yi Jianlian will also be an important player on the inside line, and he is likely to start.

Five hours later, the group arrived in Sapporo.

Chinese students here spontaneously organized themselves to prepare for the men's basketball team and support the national team. Their patriotic behavior is good, never expected. The team of 100 people was easily dispersed by the Japanese fans.

There are thousands of fans from Japan who came to greet the Chinese team, to be precise, they came to greet Wang Jun.

Basketball has always been a sport monopolized by European and American players, and Asians can only be a foil. In large-scale ball games, football and basketball are at the bottom of the world in Asia. Unfortunately, Asian men inevitably come across as "weak".

The appearance of Wang Jun gave hope to the Japanese, proving that the yellow race can play basketball well and break the "monopoly". Now many people take Wang Jun as an example and learn from his skills, hoping to be as strong as him.

Wang Zhizhi stood beside Wang Jun and sighed: "It seems that this time, Japan will really become our home field, thanks to you." ”

Chen Jianghua said enviously: "I really wish I could have such a day." ”

"Hello everyone." Wang Jun said loudly in Chinese, smiling and waving at the fans, causing the international students to cheer together.

He asked a Japanese worker in charge of reception in English: "Thank you for your support, how do you say it in Japanese?" ”

The other party said it, Wang Jun repeated it, and it attracted crazy applause from Japanese fans.

The relationship between China and Japan is not good, but people are clearly supporting you, Wang Jun thinks that you should show grace, instead of treating this group of young fans as class enemies. As long as he is friendly, the Chinese team will really be at home in this World Championships, as long as they don't play the Japanese team.

After a brief interview at the airport, everyone got on the bus and checked into the reserved four-star hotel. In the afternoon, the players are free to move, and tomorrow they will have their final preparations and acclimatization. As for how to play the game and what tactics to use, Younas already knows what to do.

Wang Jun received a call at the hotel, and James asked him to have dinner with him, and the place where the American team was staying was not far from them.

The list of 12 American Dream Seven players has been finalized as follows.

Center: Brad Miller, Dwight Howard.

Power forwards: Chris Bosh, Antoine Jamison, Elton Brand.

Small forwards: LeBron James, Cameron Anthony, Sean Battier.

Shooting guards: Joe Johnson, Dwyane Wade.

Point guards: Sinrich, Chris Paul.

The rookie of 2003 had grown up, and there were five of them on the Dream Seven team, and Hinrich finally entered the eyes of the old Coach K with his three-point and defensive ability, and topped Arenas.

Six stars of the same year traveled together, attracting countless fans to ask for autographs and group photos. The World Championships have been promoted for more than two months, and with Wang Jun, the Japanese media have called them the 2003 Six Little Kings.

This is the NBA, if it were a high school student like the Xiangbei team, I don't know if the six stars would be called six little spirit children or something like that......

Talking about this World Championships, James and other people who have participated in the Olympics are all ashamed of coming to the Olympics. Because there was an obvious gap between Wang Jun's Chinese team and Mengqi in the warm-up, they didn't regard Wang Jun as an enemy.

When he returned to the hotel in the evening, Wang Jun happened to meet Chen Jianghua and Yi Jianlian, who also went out for a stroll, looking sullen.

Wang Jun asked, "Why do you have such expressions?" ”

"We just met Jay Chou on the road and wanted an autograph, but he ignored us, pretended not to understand Chinese, and sneakily got into a nanny car." Chen Jianghua said depressedly.

"Teacher Bi and a Japanese beauty are also there, what kind of big names are they playing, aren't they artists?" Yi Jianlian also said.

Jay is coming to Japan too? Is it to watch the World Championships? Wang Jun smiled and didn't pay attention to it. (Something seems wrong)

PS (To be continued.) )