The past four years have been four years that Chinese basketball fans will never forget.

It is also a four years that this generation of Chinese men's basketball national team members cannot forget.

Wang Zhizhi, Guo Shiqiang, and Liu Yudong were the biggest winners. Even Hu Weidong missed an Asian Championship, but these three people, starting from 1999, attended all Asian competitions and World Championships.

In the past four years, the three have completed all the championships they can win in the national team as an Asian basketball player.

The 'Class Slam player' has also become the exclusive title of the four people in the media.

It is not necessary to put Zhang Hao, Yao Ming, Hu Weidong, Bater and others in this group. This is also a reflection of the increase in Chinese basketball confidence.

After the World Championships in 1998, Silver Fox officially took over the Chinese men's basketball team in 1999. In 4 summers, every summer, Silver Fox even went to China in the Asian Championships and Asian Games to lead the team to the Asian Championships. The Asian Games coaches communicated with the Asian Games how to cultivate the characteristics of players... They fully developed and built a new system around Zhang Hao.

Finally, the Chinese team became another team to complete the Olympic-World Championships consecutive championships after the United States, the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia!

At the 2002 Indiana World Basketball Championship, the picture was frozen on the Chinese team, Yugoslavia and Germany, a total of 36 basketball players stood on the podium.

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"Chris Anderson was the undrafted in 1999. This guy is very interesting. He was aged at the time and was about to enter the NBA in advance. He held a press conference to announce the decision, but he didn't know that he would submit an application to participate in the draft in advance. His school also has players participating in the NBA draft, but they are all twenty-two or three years old...

After his season in the Chinese League One A, he joined the Nuggets at the end of March with a contract of 260,000, playing 20 games, averaging 3 points, 3.2 rebounds and 1.2 blocks per game, which is in line with his expectations for his performance in the League One A.

In the three seasons of the A League, he averaged 17 points, 13 rebounds and 2.5 blocks per game, without any ball or shooting rights, and is a pure blue-collar player.

Carlos Arroyo, Puerto Rico's defender, played a total of 37 games last season with the Raptors and the Nuggets, averaging 3 points and 2 assists per game, and 9 games in the Development League, averaging 17.9 points and 5.3 assists per game. He has very good athletic ability, skills and game experience. He can play 5-10 minutes per game, and is used as the third point guard if needed."

Larry Harris introduced to Zhang Hao, who was looking at the information on the other side of the coffee table, the two signings completed during this World Championships.

Zhang Hao is holding two new teammates’ player detection reports, physical test reports, trial training details table...

Both represent the Supersonics Summer League teams in the Orlando Summer League and the Miami Summer League.

All of them performed well and were favored by the coaching staff. Chris Anderson was obviously better. In 1999, he ranked 35th in the United States. He had a little chance of entering the first round and had the potential to become an NBA or main substitute player.

Three years in the A-League, it is not a bad thing for Chris Anderson. He may not have much playing time in the NBA. As a blue-collar insider who needs to accumulate experience, playing time may be more important.

Arroyo performed well in the World Championships. Four people averaged double scores per game in this World Championships. Zhang Hao averaged 30.3 points per game, Nowitzki averaged 29.3 points per game, and Peja averaged 20.8 points per game.

The third is Arroyo, with an average of 7 points per game in 6 games.

On September 11, 2002, the day after the World Championships, all countries participating in the World Championships helped the United States pay silence to those who died in the terrorist attack on the day last year, and Chinese and Chinese people also died.

In the evening, Larry Harris came to Zhang Hao's room and discussed signing the third point guard and the fourth inside player.

Seeing Zhang Hao's expression a little confused, Larry Harris said: "Aix, these two are not bad..."

Zhang Hao replied: "Well, the two of them are very good, but... their personalities don't seem to be very good."

After Zhang Hao finished speaking, he saw Larry Harris' expression speechless.

Zhang Hao reacted and thought about his team, Artest, Kirilianko, Ben Wallace, Chandler, and Jason Williams, it seems that they are not good at it.

Matt Barnes, who just selected, almost started playing with others in the summer league.

Although Arroyo and Chris Anderson have quite perverse personalities, compared with the few people already in their own team... they all seem to be considered good babies.

"Ahem, Mr. Harris, you are the general manager, you will sign whoever you want..."

Zhang Hao looked at Arro's starting salary of $550,000, the second year was $610,000, and the total salary of $1.16 million in two years; Chris Anderson's starting salary of $510,000, the second year was $570,000, and the total salary of $1.08 million in two years.

It's easy to think of why Larry Harris chose to sign the two.

Cheap……

Although their Supersonics have too much salary space this year, Larry Harris is still mainly province-oriented.

This is a good choice. I didn’t spend my salary space this year, and I can’t spend it randomly, and I can’t block the future space.

Without introducing Ray Allen, Michael Finley, Eddie Jones, three All-Star or Qual-All-Star guards, and Mobley and Reed both renewed their contracts with full middle class, the Supersonics signed Brent Barry for an average of 5 million+ salary per year for two years. In terms of more marginal players, saving as much as possible is indeed a good choice.

Zhang Hao looked at the latest team roster.

Point Guards: Kassel, Parker, Arroyo.

Scoring guards: Brent Barry, Ginobili.

Small forwards: Artest, Kirilenko, Matt Barnes.

Power forwards: Zhang Hao, Chris Anderson, Jason Williams.

Center: Ben Wallace, Chandler.

The 13-person list is pretty good.

After entering September, the Supersonics officially renewed Cassel with a starting salary of 7 million yuan, signed a one-year, $1.05 million veteran's basic salary contract with Jason Williams, with a starting salary of 5.04 million US dollars to sign Brent Barry, a four-year rookie contract signed Matt Barnes, and two two-year contracts with the last salary of the first round signed Arroyo and Chris Anderson...

The total salary of the Supersonics team is now more than US$41 million, and it is less than the salary cap.

And the contract conditions are in good condition.

Zhang Hao looked at the salary chart and sighed: "Mr. Harris, your ability to control your salary, I think the entire NBA can't find a second person who can compare with you."

Larry Harris was very satisfied with Zhang Hao's comment and said: "This is what I should do. If it weren't for so many rookie contracts and you reduced your salary and renewed your contract, it would be difficult for us to do this."

As he said that, Larry Harris frowned again: "But the coaching staff has serious problems. Apart from Doug, Scott, and Dell have a strong tendency to renew contracts. Jeff has a few years of contracts, and other coaches have only signed short contracts for one to two years. If we hadn't won two consecutive championships, our coaching staff might have disbanded this summer."

Zhang Hao didn't care: "This is for sure. In recent years, their performance has been favored by many teams. We cannot always keep so many coaches with head coaching ability for us as assistant coaches. The moon is full and lacking, whether it is coaches or players, there will always be a time to distinguish."

Larry Harris laughed and said, "Aix, you are more open-minded than me..."

Zhang Hao did not take the lead... After this round of championship competition, the coaching staff did not part. Where did he get the opportunity to do more work in the coaching staff?

Of course, at this stage, during the championship cycle, he will not do anything randomly. He will leave professional things to professionals, and this is also a learning process.

"Aix, you know, you're going to play in China this year's preseason, right?"

"I saw the league's schedule, which is pretty good. It seems that I haven't played professional games in the country yet."

"I haven't played professional games... Have you ever played basketball in China? Didn't you say you only started practicing basketball when you arrived in the United States?"

"My father once played in Henan Province, and of course I played in China, amateur games."

"Oh... our training camp is arranged in China, your hometown of Beijing..."

Larry Harris explained Zhang Hao the situation of this year's training camp has not been announced in the team yet, so it's okay to tell Zhang Hao first.

The Supersonics players don’t know, but the management and coaching staff all know that Zhang Hao is the one who really takes power in the team. The boss Howard Schultz will adopt Zhang Hao’s opinion in most cases.

In this year's preseason, the league arranged two Chinese games, Beijing Station and Nanjing Station.

They are the home courts of Beijing Yashougang and Jiangsu X-ray team respectively.

The Supersonic Team Training Camp is arranged in Beijing and there are also commercial activities.

The one who plays China with the Supersonics is not the Kings team with Wang Zhizhi, nor the Suns team that renews their contract with Hu Weidong for two years and $12 million, but the Wizards team where Yao Ming, who is about to officially land in the NBA, is located.

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On September 13, Zhang Hao followed the national team back to China first. On September 22, the Supersonics team gathered to Beijing and went to Beijing a week in advance to give Supersonics players time to travel in Beijing.

After returning to China, there were waves of official activities after wave, and the journey to the Great Hall of the People that has been there every two years in recent years.

With the support of their peers, Chinese people can clearly understand how difficult it is for the Chinese men's basketball team to reach the top of the world and will rank first in the world for four consecutive years.

On September 18, after the Chinese men's basketball team held a press conference in the State Council Press Office of Beijing, the Chinese men's basketball team officially announced its dissolution.

When the song ends and people are dispersed, the personnel will definitely change again in the next World Championship.

After dealing with the national team, Zhang Hao conducted commercial activities jointly organized by X Sports and Nike at six stations in Nanjing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu and Beijing, promoting the √× joint version of the Gentleman Third Generation and X-5th Generation Boots.

After the World Championships, X Sports officially announced that the ET generation with good sales will release its second combat boots before Christmas, and the Big Ben generation will also be officially released. Dirk Nowitzki, who shined in this World Championships, became the spokesperson, and will also launch a new series of NO.24 sneakers.

Pierce's Truth Generation and Wang Zhizhi's KING series PE sneakers will also be released in the new season.

He also signed Yao Ming for 25 million US dollars in five years.

Taking advantage of Zhang Hao winning two consecutive championships and the Chinese men's basketball team winning Olympic gold medals and World Championships in succession, X Sports also began to make efforts and started the money-spending mode.

By the way, I also took advantage of the popularity of Kobe, who had just terminated his contract with Adidas. When X Sports announced that it would launch the NO.24 series creatively created by Zhang Hao, it said that Zhang Hao would not be the spokesperson for the NO.24 series sneakers, which brought a lot of imagination to the media and fans...

It is not a big problem to open the Chinese market, and the Asian market is also opening up smoothly, but it is still very difficult to truly open the US market and enter the European market.

Zhang Hao didn't know what the result would be if he spent so much money.

But there are some things, since he, Mr. Zhang, has come to this time and space and has the possibility of change, of course he has to gain some interest.

Anyway, it doesn’t matter if you lose, but as the domestic economy is getting better and better, it is best to take the sneakers and sports equipment markets of your own country by yourself, and to conquer the three major markets in Asia, America and Europe...

The good news is that if the domestic market is helped by the country, even if you may end up with too much steps, it will not be too miserable.

Some things just happened to come. In 1998, they won the bronze medal in the World Championships, which attracted the attention of the country and occupied a place in the domestic sports industry.

By 2000, he won the Olympic gold medal, but he still had luck.

After becoming the world's number one, the Chinese men's basketball team needs to prove that they won the championship is not luck. In 2002, the Chinese national football team collapsed, and the Chinese men's basketball team continued to win the world championship... The Chinese men's basketball team's status in the domestic sports world was completely unsolvable.

Except for national table tennis, no other sports can surpass basketball.

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To be continued...