The NBA free market ended and the league began to enter a long annual grass period.

However, what is different from the past three years is that this year is the Olympic Year.

The 2012 London Olympics will be held on August 1.

Sun Hao only stayed for two days when he returned to Los Angeles, and then he took a plane back to China to meet with the national team.

This time Yao Ming did not go with him.

Due to injuries, Yao Ming will miss the Olympics for the first time in his career.

This is also the difference between him and in history.

In history, Yao Ming forced his return to participate in the 2008 Olympics with injuries, which eventually led to a serious resurgence and he directly retired in the new season.

The current change is not because Yao Ming's personality has changed, but because the current Chinese men's basketball team is completely different from the Chinese men's basketball team in history.

The Chinese men's basketball team now has two Olympic champions in their hands and is the overlord of the world basketball world.

In other words, Olympic champions are still very important, but the Chinese men's basketball team no longer needs Yao Ming to block his career to "prove" anything.

So when it's time to recover, take good care of the injury.

This time the trip to London, the Chinese men's basketball team was led by Sun Hao and Yi Jianlian.

It is worth mentioning that the US men's basketball team suffered a setback in the 2006 World Championships and failed in the 2008 Olympics. At this time, the enthusiasm of domestic super giants to participate in the Olympics was not high.

After all, I had failed to take revenge once in 2008. Who knows that this time I will definitely not fail?

Some people may say that Yao Ming didn’t go this time, and the chances are much greater!

But everything has two sides. If you fail to take revenge, wouldn’t you completely throw yourself into the pillar of history’s shame?

As for what you think, it varies from person to person.

Like James this time, he declined the invitation from the American men's basketball team on the grounds of recuperation.

Like Durant, not only announced that he would continue to participate in the national team as soon as possible, but also called on other super giants to participate!

But... his appeal is very limited.

People with different personalities make different choices, but the results are different due to different personalities.

People, sometimes it's really fun.

The situation on the US team is quite complicated, but Spain is extremely enthusiastic.

Because this is fighting in Europe, and with the rise of Gasol and others, the Spanish men's basketball team's strength has reached its historical peak.

And last summer, the Spanish men's basketball team did a big thing, and they naturalized Ibaka!

When talking about the issue of naturalization, the Asian men's basketball team is most familiar to fans.

Because the strength of Asian teams themselves is relatively weak, many countries need to naturalize their players to improve the overall strength of the team in order to achieve the opportunity to enter the Olympics.

But in fact, many strong teams also engage in naturalization, and Spanish naturalization Ibaka is a good example.

In addition to the absence of Yao Ming on the Chinese team, the other side has increased and decreased, and this is their best chance to win the championship!

One of the most direct evidence is that fiba gave the team's overall evaluation this Olympics.

The number one is neither the United States nor the Chinese team, but the Spanish team!

This is also a rare thing in the past few years.

Of course, this has something to do with what was mentioned above. The roster of the Chinese and American men's basketball team is not the strongest lineup this time.

American men's basketball team: Durant, Westbrook, Deron, Harden, Curry, Eric Gordon, Iguodala, Guy, Love, Griffin, Chandler, Jordan Jr.;

Chinese men's basketball team: Sun Hao, Yi Jianlian, Wang Zhizhi, Sun Yue, Zhu Fangyu, Zhou Peng, Wang Shipeng, Chen Jianghua, Ding Jinhui, Han Dejun, Wang Zhelin, Guo Ailun;

One can only be considered half a team of American teams, while the other lacks Yao Ming.

It's not surprising that fiba can be arranged so much.

It was against this background that the London Olympics officially started.

Because the Beijing Olympics are in its grand occasion, the British are afraid that they will be worse than China, so the investment is quite large.

According to statistics, this Olympic Games has attracted nearly 1 billion viewers around the world.

Including basketball events, it is also true. Although superstars such as Kobe, James, and Yao Ming failed to appear at the Olympics, they still attracted the attention of fans around the world.

The most popular ones are neither the Spanish team, which is ranked No. Fiba, nor the American team, which still has super stars, but the Chinese team!

A very classic picture is that when the representatives of each team were waiting in the waiting area before the entrance ceremony, the camera swept through the representatives of each team.

Even Messi, who had just been elected as a footballer, did not stay in the camera for two more seconds, with only one person being the exception.

Sun Hao!

When the camera was given to Sun Hao, the cheers at the scene resounded through the sky.

And the camera stayed on Sun Hao for ten seconds!

These ten seconds were later called the "Golden Ten Seconds of the Olympics" by fans!

At first, Sun Hao was just preparing to say hello, but feeling the atmosphere of European fans around him, he still smiled and waved to the fans.

After he waved his hand, he was one decibel higher on the scene, which made him feel inexplicably moved.

A few years ago, due to the incident of Adidas employees, he canceled his cooperation with Adidas, and his popularity in Europe has declined.

But it turns out that his crazy scoring performance in the NBA last season not only brought back that decline in popularity, but also had a surge.

This is very European.

Europeans have always admired the strong.

When Napoleon almost conquered Europe, so many years have passed, and various legends about him are still circulating on this land of Europe.

What Sun Hao has done in the field of basketball is even better than Napoleon at the time.

In addition, he was originally the "king of Europe", so this reaction is reasonable.

After the opening ceremony, the men's basketball team's game also started.

Olympic point guards AB group, the United States and Spain men's basketball team were divided into Group A, and the Chinese men's basketball team was divided into Group B.

With such a grouping, the group match between the US and Spanish men's basketball teams is naturally the focus of the group stage.

The final result came out, the Spanish men's basketball team lost to the American men's basketball team 63-81.

This result made many fans sigh like "a lean camel is bigger than a horse", and said that this was a slap in the face of the previous ranking.

However, as long as fans who have seen the Spanish men's basketball team's Olympic style before, they should be used to this.

Slow heat is a typical tradition of this team. Even if this Spanish men's basketball team makes efforts in a group stage, they probably won't go far in the end.

After the group stage, we will enter the knockout stage and wait until the four teams in the semi-finals are confirmed.

They are China VS the United States, Spain VS Russia.

It was at this stage that many fans suddenly felt that Spain had deliberately lost to the US team, but fortunately they avoided the US in the semi-finals.

But no matter what, China and the United States have encountered it in advance.

This game was also quite intense and full of suspense.

Without Yao Ming, the Chinese team could not stand on the Fiba field alone by Yi Jianlian and Wang Zhizhi.

Fortunately, Sun Hao, on the offensive end, is just as unsolvable as the NBA arena, and his scoring ability is superb.

Moreover, Yi Jianlian's offensive status was also quite hot, and his shot inside and outside gave Sun Hao enough support.

After the final game, the Chinese team defeated the American men's basketball team 102-96 and successfully reached the Olympic final.

Sun Hao scored 43 points alone, and Yi Jianlian also had an outstanding performance of 26 points and 15 rebounds.

Durant scored 31 points in the US men's basketball team, while Curry and Harden each scored 16 points.

At the end of the game, Durant looked up at the score for a while, and shook his head in frustration when he lowered his head.

Kobe didn't come, and James didn't come. This was his first time leading the team as the boss of the American men's basketball team.

After leading the Warriors to complete the dynasty last season, if he can lead the United States to win the Olympic championship again, he will be the same as completing the basketball Grand Slam.

Just like what Sun Hao did at the beginning, he turned this year into the "Durant Year".

Unfortunately, Sun Hao is standing opposite him.

He still couldn't beat his elder brother...

On the other hand, the Spanish team easily solved the big dark horse of the Russian team in this Olympics.

The Chinese team and the Spanish team finally met in the final.

This result is one of the main results that fans expect.

After all, everyone knows that the three strongest teams are Spain, China and the United States.

Any two of these three teams meet in the finals is not a surprise.

Another Chinese-Western showdown, but China has become weaker and Spain has become stronger.
To be continued...