Who is the caller?——The flag of domestic basketball, Yao Ming.
Yao Ming? Why is he calling me at this time? Oh, he must have heard from Coach Li that I have returned to China.
Thinking of this, Tang Qian composed himself, then answered the phone and said, "Hello, Brother Yao, long time no see."
"Hello, Xiao Tang. I heard from Coach Li that you have returned to China. Do you want to come to Shanghai and help my big shark?" Yao Ming asked directly without covering up. In fact, this
Yao Ming mentioned this matter last time at Yao Restaurant in Houston, and Tang Qian also agreed. So with this premise, Tang Qian could only say: "Brother Yao, the main purpose of my trip is
I went to Shanghai suddenly to spend time with my parents..."
Unexpectedly, Yao Ming's mind was spinning very fast and he blurted out in an instant: "What kind of problem is this? You should accompany your parents. You can bring your parents to Shanghai. By the way, the elderly can also appreciate the beautiful scenery of the Huangpu River."
Huh." Yao Ming will be able to successfully transition from being an athlete to business and politics in the future. This brain is by no means comparable to ordinary people. He solved all Tang Qian's "concerns" at once.
"Don't worry, as we agreed last time, how about your family coming to Shanghai and me being your host?" Yao Ming said with a smile.
Seeing that Yao Ming had already mentioned this, Tang Qian's excuse would be a bit "hypocritical" and "deliberate", so he said to the phone: "Okay, Brother Yao, I'll trouble you then."
"No problem, I will book the plane tickets for your family, 3 tickets, right?"
Tang Qian thought for a while and said: "Well, I estimate it will take 4. Brother Yao, I have one more here..."
"Haha~ No problem, no problem~ It's settled, I'll send it to you when it's finalized~" Yao Ming smiled heartily and hung up the phone without asking any more questions, which made Tang Qian invisible.
A lot of explanations and embarrassment.
This Brother Yao has an unexpectedly high emotional intelligence. No wonder he will do so well in the future~
Tang Qian didn't know that Yao Ming would eventually be directly promoted to "Chairman Yao" and become the true leader of Chinese basketball.
The speed of Yao Ming's work was indeed very fast. Not long after, Tang Qian's mobile phone received a text message. There were four tickets in total, all of which were first class. During lunch, Tang Qian said something, Tang Qian's father, Tang
Mother nodded in agreement, and Taylor didn't say anything. On the contrary, he looked very expectant.
Since the flight was at 6pm, Tang Qian and his family packed up in a hurry after lunch. Then the family chartered a taxi and went straight to the airport. The journey was not long, only 2 hours in total.
Around 8 o'clock in the evening, Tang Qian and his family arrived in Shanghai.
As soon as they came out, there were people holding signs to pick them up. Tang Qian called Yao Ming to confirm, and then boarded the bus with these people and went directly to the XXXX five-star hotel in Shanghai. He went out with his parents for a walk in the evening, and then it was over.
for one day.
Early the next morning, Tang Qian received a call from Yao Ming. He asked Tang Qian if he had gotten up yet.
After Tang Qian went downstairs, he walked to a huge customized car. As soon as the car door opened, a familiar face said: "Hello, Xiao Tang, we meet again." After Tang Qian got in the car, he nodded and said:
"Yes, Brother Yao, how are you doing recently?"
After the car started, Yao Ming shrugged and said: "It's not very good. The road to full professionalization in China is still very difficult. I'm just a crab eater." This is the truth. Yao Ming wants to implement full professionalism in the CBA.
In the process of professionalization, the first thing that bears the brunt is the problem of his old friend Liu Wei, the veteran guard of the national team. Because if you want to operate the NBA, you must adopt rational methods to deal with things, and firing your mentor Li Qiuping is only the first step.
The second part uses captain Liu Wei as a bargaining chip and puts it on the trading table.
This may be a normal thing in the United States and the NBA, but in China, hey, it has made Yao Ming bear the reputation of "ungrateful" and "cold-blooded". No matter what, China is still going to be "semi-professional"
"Operating mode", human feelings are greater than reason. Under heavy pressure, Yao Ming could only renew his contract with Liu Wei. But even so, he still couldn't stop some good people from talking.
This made Yao Ming feel for the first time how difficult it is to implement a full-professional operation strategy in the CBA, because most people, including people in the industry, believe that "brotherly relationships" are greater than "business talks". This
It is also something that has been deeply rooted in the country since the establishment of the league. Even within the Sharks themselves, there have been a lot of accusations.
For example, Shan Zhenhao, the team translator and video analyst of the Sharks, once said that the CBA is now only a semi-professional league, and it is too early to talk about full professionalization and business.
, it’s a bit too much. Because the CBA will never become like the NBA in a short time. If you have to do this, and you think the NBA is the right way, please speak up with your results. Who is the target of these remarks? Of course.
The new boss is Yao Ming.
This also reflects the current situation of the entire domestic basketball circle. Insiders are so "short-sighted" and call "full professional operation" "unfeeling", let alone ordinary people. Therefore, Yao Ming is almost a
It’s not easy at all to “defeat someone with words or words.”
As a person with memories of the next few years, Tang Qian certainly knows Yao Ming's difficulties. The big guy in front of him wants to be the "pioneer" of domestic professional basketball and the first to "eat crabs". Unfortunately, he introduced
Many strategies implemented by the NBA have achieved little results within a few years. As a result, ridicule and ridicule followed.
Hiring Deng Huade is a failure, and then selecting players directly from the NCAA to play in the CBA is also a wrong move. At least, the step is too big. Because the style, scale, and rules of domestic basketball are not suitable for these American basketball players.
Players in the college league have caused huge "adaptation pressure". Moreover, the overestimation of Sharks fans is also one of the reasons why this team's "mind" is extremely fragile.
In the end, Yao Ming had no choice but to give up the "foreign coach route" and switch to the "national coach" again. After several years of running into obstacles, he and his team finally understood that some things cannot be solved overnight. Even if the foreign coaches have overall technical and tactical levels
They are higher than domestic coaches, but they are not familiar with domestic basketball culture. This is the most fatal thing.
Because the CBA is ultimately China's basketball league, not the United States'.
The long-term player fixity and immobility is simply unthinkable to rely on one team to break.
After Yao Ming and Tang Qian talked about some of their team's worries, Tang Qian said surprisingly: "Brother Yao, I think you should give up foreign coaches for the time being and re-engage domestic coaches. Then the management system cannot be completely copied from the beginning.
The loose model of the NBA, after all, our domestic players are used to being disciplined, and if the standard suddenly changes to the NBA model, they will not adapt and eventually become wild horses."
"Oh? Do you understand the operation of the team?" Yao Ming became interested and asked.
Just kidding, I don’t understand. These are all your own corrections in the future. I just borrowed flowers and offered them to Buddha in advance.
"Brother Yao, I don't understand these things. I just feel that what you just mentioned are all things that the NBA has been running for decades, so it seems stable and has sufficient clinical experience. But in fact, for our current
In terms of basketball soil, it is still too advanced. We should increase our efforts little by little. This may be more effective than applying mechanically all at once." Tang Qian said: "Even the NBA was not so perfect from the beginning.
The mechanism, such a complete charter, has slowly evolved and transitioned over the past 60 to 70 years. So at present, I think the domestic league does not have a fixed business model at all. After this year’s season is over, we will discuss it again.
What to do next year, or even cut the number of regular season games, this is absolutely harmful to a healthy development of the league."
"Well, that makes some sense." Yao Ming thought for a while and said: "As for the issue of standardization, this is indeed a big drawback of the current league. In the past, CBA also had an era of 50 games a season, but now the speaker has changed.
After that, everything was only in line with the national team. In order to prepare for international competitions and increase training time, the above-mentioned officials cut the regular season to 30+ games. This is really not strong enough for a complete league operation, and there are too few games.
Furthermore, the 'Spring Festival Game' that I proposed to the superiors to imitate the NBA's 'Christmas Game' was also directly rejected because it was considered too inhumane and too 'cruel' for athletes."
"Well, there is also the 'troop expansion plan' that is being discussed above. There are more than 30 regular season games in a season, and they want to add 4 to 5 more teams. This is really not a 'concrete analysis of specific problems' at all.
Ah. You must know that the current domestic basketball soil cannot breed so many professional athletes, nor can it breed so many professional coaches and other supporting professions. Forcibly doing this will only make the league's 'prices skyrocket'. Players
Blinded by the superficial prosperity, they no longer devote themselves so seriously to professional training. Not to mention our BA, the massive military expansion in the 1960s and 1970s also caused a lot of turmoil? If it weren’t for David Stern’s tyranny
The so-called NBA league may have become obsolete long ago."
"But the NBA has David Stern. What about us? Who is willing to step forward and lead?" Yao Ming said with a tangled expression and pain: "Okay, actually I personally feel that even if there is a domestic player,
David Stern has no use for him, because generally speaking, he is still the 'Yiyantang' above."
Tang Qian thought for a while and then made a suggestion: "Brother Yao, I think everything should start from the baby." "Start from the baby? What does this mean?" Yao Ming asked.
"Anyway, the soil of this generation is difficult to replace, so it's better to simply..." Tang Qian made a "one size fits all" gesture and said: "Cultivation of the soil directly, and then fundamentally change the current situation of domestic basketball, but this investment
And the production time is..."
Tang Qian is also "borrowing flowers to offer to Buddha" because Yao Ming did this himself in 2014 and established an NBA Yao Ming School. The general purpose of this school is exactly the same as what Tang Qian just said.
Since the current soil cannot be changed, then I will focus on the next generation.
This shows that Yao Ming is really willing to invest in domestic basketball. Otherwise, this kind of "changing the soil" will not be effective in a few years or even seven or eight years. This is not in line with the "profit-seeking nature" of a pure businessman.
.If it weren’t for the love and responsibility for domestic basketball, there would be no need for Rockets No. 11 to do this.
"Well, that's a good idea, but I'm alone..." Yao Ming also has difficulties. After all, it's only 2013. In fact, even in the original time and space, NBA Yao Ming School can't make money just by charging tuition fees.
It will lose money, but Yao Ming has a good image, so he has attracted many sponsors, which solves the urgent need in the initial stage.
"It doesn't matter, Brother Yao. If you don't mind, I can come with you. How about we invest in this 'soil project' together?" Tang Qian suggested. This was also what he especially wanted to do in his last life. If you are poor, then
If he is good at himself, he can help the world. Although he is far from being "da" now, he is already qualified to help Yao Ming and help the domestic basketball industry.
Yao Ming was stunned when he heard this and said, "You want to do it with me?"
"That's right." Tang Qian nodded and said: "I just want to see basketball really thrive in China in my lifetime. In order to achieve this goal, I am willing to contribute." "Okay!" Yao Ming said suddenly: "I really haven't.
I misjudged you! Xiao Tang, you are different from most domestic basketball players."
"You are truly born for basketball."
…
Arriving at the Sharks training base, Yao Ming personally led Tang Qian into the training base and said loudly: "Everyone pause for a moment, let me introduce you to a person. He is No. 29 from the Los Angeles Lakers, Tang Qian.
.”
Tang Qian's sudden appearance gave these young people a big surprise. Soon they swarmed up and surrounded Tang Qian. The look was very similar to the way Tang Qian looked at NBA stars in his previous life.
"Okay, okay, don't worry. Since I invited Tang Qian here today, I won't let him go so easily. Everyone will have the opportunity to receive close guidance from Tang Qian later." Yao Ming
After saying that, he lowered his head and joked with Tang Qian: "Sure enough, the waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead. Look at me, no one is chasing me now~"
Tang Qian smiled and said: "Brother Yao, you are so humble. You are the banner figure of Chinese basketball. I have admired you since I was very young."
"Haha, lies, lies~" Yao Ming also laughed and said: "I'll trouble you today. Help guide these young children. They are the future of our Sharks." "No problem, Brother Yao."
Tang Qian promised: "I will try my best."
PS: This chapter has been revised and rewritten for a long time. Xiao Zi really hopes that domestic basketball can rise again. How many games has he not won in the Olympics? Especially after watching the video replay of the NBA Finals today, I feel this way.
, a little deeper.
I'm not afraid of starting late, but I'm afraid of being stuck in the same place~ I hope Tuyao can make some achievements~