"Ace, you're finally here, we miss you so much..." Zhang Jingsong, this funny guy, looked like a little wife who had been abandoned and wronged when she saw Liu Mang.

"Son, I miss you so much." Liu Mang hugged you with a fatherly expression.

"roll!"

"Hey, my son is too old to stay..."

The friendship between men is very simple, they are like each other's fathers.

In terms of relationships, the members of the previous national team who had the best relationship with Liu Mang were Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi, and Yi Jianlian, the three players who played in the United States.

In terms of playing well, Zhang Jingsong is still the one. Although the two are almost ten years apart, they are very familiar with each other. If nothing else, Zhang Jingsong’s face is so cheerful that he can get along well with everyone in the national team.

good.

"Ace, we haven't seen you for two years. Congratulations, you have won three consecutive NBA championships." Guo Shiqiang became more calm and came up to give Liu Mang a hug.

On July 30, Liu Mang came to the Qingdao Basketball Training Base and met up with his teammates from the national team.

To Liu Mang's expectation, he remembered that Guo Shiqiang and Li Nan, who were supposed to retire from the national team after playing in the 2004 Olympics, actually came this time!

As a professional basketball player, Liu Mang doesn't have many opportunities to meet with his national team teammates who play in China. Even with Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi who are playing in the NBA, he actually only gets to meet them a few times a year. He can count them on both hands.

, in the season that just ended, we only met him almost ten times because of playing in the finals, and less before.

Liu Mang greeted his national team teammates and got to know some new teammates.

Starting from April, the training camp of the Chinese men's basketball team has begun. From a maximum of more than 60 people, 9 people except Liu Mang, Yao Ming, and Wang Zhizhi were screened. Yi Jianlian also played as a substitute in the NCAA until UCLA stopped in the finals in April.

, returned to China to participate in the national team training, of course, Yi Jianlian

Previous teammates such as Zhang Yunsong and Chen Ke were not selected for the 12-man roster for this World Championship.

In addition to Liu Mang, this national team also has Guo Shiqiang, Liu Wei, and Sun Yue as point guards on the outside, Li Nan, Zhu Fangyu, Wang Shipeng, and Zhang Jingsong as shooting guards and small forwards, and Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi, Yi Jianlian, and Du Feng on the inside.

From the point guard line to the forward line to the interior line, there are one or two veterans holding the line. Guo Shiqiang, Li Nan, Zhang Jingsong, and Du Feng are the four veterans who are used to hold the line. They are all over 30 years old, especially Du Feng, who is 35

30 years old, which is very rare for the Chinese men's basketball team. For example, Zhang Weiping, once the number one power forward in Asia, has already retired at the age of 30.

Liu Mang is quite satisfied with this lineup. This is a lineup that brings together the strongest basketball players in the country!

After the eight national team teammates greeted Liu Mang, they all went to prepare for the training they were going to do today. Liu Mang came back and couldn't start team training immediately. It was still early and there were still more than ten days of preparation time.

, they must first let Liu Mang conduct personal training to recover, and they also want to show their best condition so that Liu Mang can be satisfied.

Wang Zhizhi and Yao Ming are different from NBA stars who grew up playing in China. They have long been old friends, and Liu Mang... he plays with the world's highest-level teammates all year round. The university also plays in the NCAA in the United States. From Yi Jianlian

The news brought back from the NCAA makes domestic basketball players such as Li Nan, Guo Shiqiang and Du Feng and people with lofty ideals who want to promote the development of domestic basketball feel very heavy. If the best lineup is selected from the NCAA to play in the World Series, they will all

One of the favorites to win the championship.

After Liu Mang said hello to his domestic teammates, he looked at Yi Jianlian and saw that he had grown a lot stronger. He was too thin before, and shooting was a problem when playing against black players, but now he has become much tougher. Not that he is

He doesn't look like a devil's muscular man, but his body is stronger, much stronger than when I saw him in Los Angeles at the turn of last year and this year.

Long time no see, I miss you so much.

This is what Liu Mang and Yao Ming are like.

But what should I say about Liu Mang's current mood? Looking at Yao Ming's current appearance, is he still the same Yao Ming who smiled awkwardly when asked about losing in the finals when participating in business activities?

Now Yao Ming is so proud of himself, not much different from when he joined the Lakers last year.

With Gasol as a helper, an All-Star power forward!

The small forward position has also been strengthened. Barnes is not a star, but he has the much-needed defense at the Lakers' forward position.

Judging from the lineup, Yao Ming's own lineup is as good as the Eagles, and it looks even more exciting!

Although the Hawks added Marion, Rasheed Wallace is 32 years old. Since the age of 30, Rasheed Wallace's ability has declined visibly. It is very obvious that he can no longer play the role of a core player.

The forward's role is to throw three-pointers, occasionally make cuts, and help the defensive end in the paint. This is the best performance Rasheed Wallace can do now.

The Eagles' rotation has also become a group of rookies, and Yao Ming is now very confident in his team.

However, they didn't mention anything related to the club now. The two of them said hello. It was during the national team period and it was about the NBA. They would compete after the national team game was over.

After chatting with my teammates for a while, Zhang Weiping, the leader of the Chinese men's basketball team in this year's World Championships, and coach Zhang Weiping and head coach Silver Fox Harris came to the training ground. Previously, it was the training camp where coach Zhang came to pick up Liu Mang. I didn't pay much attention to it before.

Only then did I find out that the head coach had not changed, it was still former Lakers head coach Del Harris.

"Ace, your performance in the NBA is great. Why didn't I have players as good as you when I was an NBA head coach?" Harris came up and hugged Liu Mang.

Liu Mang felt comfortable hearing these words and said with a smile: "Coach, you are so unlucky. You encountered someone who missed three shots in the playoffs. It doesn't matter. I have avenged you, twice."

"Haha, come Ace, let's go warm up and take a physical test..."

…

After the physical test and warm-up, Liu Mang quickly started recovery training.

When Liu Mang started training, he once again scared his teammates. Just like two years ago, the intensity and time of Liu Mang's recovery training... made his teammates feel terrible!

And I often see the news, this is Liu Mang’s regular training...

Liu Mang has started training for the national team, and the American team has already arrived in Asia and started training.

Compared with the Chinese men's national basketball team, which trains in Qingdao every year, the American team can go wherever there is fun. This time the World Championships are held in Asia, and they are training in the resort of Maldives.

On the night of July 30th, Beijing time, bursts of horrifying laughter came from a bathroom in a room at the resort hotel chartered by the American men’s basketball team...
Chapter completed!