City of basketball

Dongguan has the first professional basketball club in China-Hongyuan Club, and it is the only prefecture-level city in China with three professional basketball clubs (Hongyuan, New Century and Chang 'an Baining). Dongguan has sent eight national team members to the China men's basketball team. There are more than 20,000 basketball courts here, which is the famous "Basketball City" in China. Basketball is a resounding "city card" in Dongguan, and it is also the city totem of Dongguan. Basketball not only shows the courage of Dongguan people to "be the first in the world", but also is Dongguan's "inclusive"

The embodiment of the urban spirit of "Sichuan, Germany and pragmatism" At present, there are no local players in Dongguan in CBA, but this does not hinder Dongguan's prominent position in the basketball history of China and the basketball map of China.

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When we examine Dongguan basketball with the historical development view, we will find that it is just a microcosm of the historical torrent of professional sports in China and even reform and opening up in China.

1992, the spring breeze of reform suddenly turned this small county into an industrial town and a famous manufacturing city in the Pearl River Delta region. Thousands of factories have mushroomed. Because Dongguan people like basketball, most of the open spaces in the factory are left as courts.

The boss of Hongyuan Group, who started from building materials and real estate, bought the Guangdong Men's Football Team. After six years of struggle, the boss surnamed Chen found that it is much cheaper to raise a basketball team than a football team, and hundreds of thousands a year is cheaper than putting a full-page advertisement in Nanfang Daily. So he decided to change the pattern of basketball in China and set up Hongyuan Basketball Club. In the early days of his establishment, he did not confine his vision to the local area, but recruited talents from all over the country. Groups of national players from all corners of the country have entered Dongguan one after another. Zhang Yongjun (Hubei), Li Chunjiang (Liaoning), Ma Yongzhong (Hebei), Li Qingshan (Jilin), Huang Yunlong (Fujian) and Guan Deyou (Jilin), once famous towns, gathered together to start their "second venture" and entered the CBA finals for the first time in 1995/96.

After two seasons, these "old guys" of Hongyuan gradually faded out. Li Qun, recruited from Guang Jun, gradually grew into the main point guard of the team. Together with Song from Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province and a 25-year-old black player, Hongyuan began to enter the second development period. No matter in team building or club management, a brand-new road of professional sports has been explored.

In the seasons of 1998/99 and 1999/00, Hongyuan won the third place in the regular season, and Du Feng and Zhu emerged as "Gemini" in the team. This is the first batch of fine products on the "Hongyuan mode" production line. However, in the Ninth National Games held in Guangzhou and the 200102 CBA season, Hongyuan experienced a head coach change, and Li Qun suffered a knee injury in the national team. The semi-final of the 9th National Games was held in Dongguan Gymnasium, which is also the home of the South China Tiger League. They lost to Bayi, and Hongyuan only ranked seventh in the league.

After the haze, Hongyuan won the championship in the 02/03 regular season. The South China Tiger Finals, which was bursting with confidence, was once again suppressed by Bayi 1-3, but a youthful force has risen in the South China Tiger. Yi Jianlian participated in the finals and won the rookie of the season.

July 8, 2003, an ordinary day. But for Dongguan basketball, it is of historical significance. Dongguan New Century Club was established in Da Lang, a woolen town less than half an hour's drive from Dongguan. They started playing in the second division, and since then there have been two clubs in Dongguan.

After entering Hongyuan on the right track, all three seasons went smoothly. In 2003/04, Liu Yudong retired for the first time. In the 2004/05 season, Jinling Nanjing, Hongyuan was shocked and reversed, claiming the title of king of the world; In the 2005/06 season, the South China Tiger ascended the throne in Dongguan for the first time, and this time their opponent was Bayi. Yi Jianlian was elected MVP of the finals with 19.6 points and 10.2 rebounds per game. The realization of that hegemony of Hongyuan dynasty set a good example for the professionalization of basketball in China.

In the past four years, the new century has also been striding forward with great strides every year. In 2003, he won the third place in the national second-division league, the second place in CBL in 2004 and the CBL championship in 2005, and joined the CBA family through the Basketball Association admission system.

Wang came back in 2006. He not only helped China men's basketball team enter the World Championships 16, but also helped Bayi recover in the 2006/07 season. Hongyuan team lost its supreme three pillars, but the young players also got a good exercise.

After the season, Yi Jianlian set foot in the United States from Guangzhou Baiyun Airport to find his dream. He entrusted this important task to his younger brothers Chen Jianghua, Liu Xiaoyu and Zhou Peng.

Hongyuan has a model that can be used for reference in club management, team building and reserve force training in the new century. "Derby" has also become a new landscape of Dongguan basketball. In 2006, Changan Town also established a basketball club-Dongguan Changan Baining Club, which was invested by Changan International Hotel.

Since then, Dongguan has become the only prefecture-level city in China with three basketball clubs. Hongyuan is ahead, catching up in the new century, and Changan Baining is ready to go. Dongguan has become a major town in CBA and a benchmark for basketball professionalization in China.

Author: 125.93.20 1. * 2008-1-8 replied to this statement at 22: 59.

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School basketball

The night of August 10, 2006 was an unforgettable night for Dongguan University of Technology. In the third-place battle for men's basketball group B (professional group) of the 7th Universiade in Guangdong Province held that night, these students, who were mainly local students in Dongguan and had no professional players to "support", defeated Shaoguan College team and won the bronze medal in the Universiade basketball historically. Three days later, the men's basketball team of Dongguan University of Technology defeated the powerful Guangdong University of Technology team 72-7 1 in the final of Group A (amateur group) and won the championship of Group A. This gold medal is the most valuable medal won by Dongguan University of Technology at the Universiade.

In Dongguan, a city that prides itself on basketball, the men's basketball team of Dongguan University of Technology is naturally unwilling to lag behind and shoulders the heavy responsibility of rectifying the name of college basketball in Dongguan. After seven years of hard work, we finally made a breakthrough in this Universiade.

It is commendable that the traditional strong basketball schools of the Universiade, such as Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou Institute of Physical Education and South China University of Technology, all have professional players currently playing for CBA. The men's basketball team of Dongguan University of Technology, a group of Dongguan boys who are not outstanding in figure and technology, won the bronze medal in the strong hand with the blood of an indomitable man.

After the men's basketball team of Dongguan University of Technology won, a man was lifted by everyone. He is the team captain Zhang. 2 1 year-old Dongguan boy infected his teammates with his skills, passion and fighting spirit. Zhang, whose fame is not only in Dongguan Institute of Technology, but also in Dongguan and Cheng Nan community, is often mentioned by golfers.

In the 2006 Dongguan Basketball League, he led the Cheng Nan team to beat the last champion unexpectedly in the final. In that battle, he scored 32 points and was selected as the MVP of the finals.

At present, A Hao is a sophomore in the Department of Business Administration of Dongguan University of Technology. In order to lead the team on CUBA's dream stage, he and his brothers are working hard every day.

Popular basketball

Many outsiders are wondering why professional basketball in Dongguan is so popular. In addition to the economic development of Dongguan, the more crucial reason is that the enthusiasm of Dongguan people for basketball is deeply rooted in the bone marrow. Basketball is not just a sport for them, but a way of life.

Every year, in the city basketball league, there will be a grand occasion of closed shops, empty streets, scalpers everywhere and full stadiums. The government attaches great importance to it, and the citizens are enthusiastic. The local media has been reporting on it, and businesses have also taken a fancy to this business opportunity. Therefore, after a foreign basketball reporter personally went to the scene to watch the Dongguan Basketball League, he could not help feeling: "This is simply more lively than the CBA Finals."

Not only the scale is large, but also the level of Dongguan Basketball League is high. In order to improve their competitiveness, towns and streets have hired well-known coaches to provide equipment and training for the team, which is no different from professional basketball.

Every year, in addition to the city basketball league, a series of competitions will be held between enterprises and between towns and streets in Dongguan on holidays such as Spring Festival, May Day and National Day. According to incomplete statistics, there are tens of thousands of basketball games in Dongguan every year. Playing, watching and chatting on holidays has become a living habit of Dongguan people.

With so many competitions and developed economy, Dongguan has attracted basketball experts from all over the country to come to Dongguan for gold, and foreigners compare Dongguan to the "wild ball paradise" of the whole country. If a foreign basketball player can find a relatively stable job in Dongguan, he can earn some extra money by playing wild ball in his spare time, at least 2,000 yuan per month.

Star player

Tolerance is the city feature of Dongguan, and Hongyuan and the new century also have such a mind. Li Qun, Du Feng, Yi Jianlian and other stars have emerged in the South China Tiger camp, and they have become the symbol of Dongguan. Behind them, Chen Jianghua, Zhou Peng, Liu Xiaoyu, Zhang Kai and other promising stars Ran Ran rose.

At the age of 20, Li Qun became the captain of the basketball team of Guangzhou Military Region. Then another glorious life began in Hongyuan, witnessing the ebb and flow of Hongyuan. In 2006, Li Qun led the South China Tiger to achieve the triple crown as the captain. Then he took off his military uniform and put on a suit, becoming the commander-in-chief of the three armed forces. Although he failed to lead the team to win the championship in the first year of coaching, Li Qun is writing a new chapter for this journey from player to coach.

Du Feng is known as the "flying sparerib", but in his thin body, he has wit, humility and unyielding factors. So whether in Hongyuan team or national team, he can always appear where he should appear. He was appointed as the new captain of Hongyuan, the best sixth man in the national team, and he was the most indispensable person.

Du Feng is the representative of Mesozoic Hongyuan, and Yi Jianlian is undoubtedly the symbol of Cenozoic Hongyuan. The 20-year-old Arab League is young, sunny, confident and talented. Since he entered the youth team, he has been favored by thousands of people, the best newcomer, the MVP in the finals and the fourth person in the NBA China. The United Arab League is growing at a rocket-like speed.