The '06 World Men's Basketball Championship was held in Japan, and the opening ceremony was held in Sapporo, Japan.

The Men's World Basketball Championship avoided the Football World Cup and brought a dizzying array of exciting events to fans around the world by riding on the tail of summer sports enthusiasm.

The Chinese men's basketball team has always been in closed training, and the training camp lasted for nearly a month.

Subsequently, the men's basketball team flew directly to Sapporo, Japan.

Sapporo is a metropolitan city in the Hokkaido region of Japan, a rare inland city in Japan, the fifth most populous city in Japan, and an internationally famous tourist city.

In this year's Men's Basketball World Championships, a total of 24 national teams participated in the competition.

Japan's Hamamatsu, Hiroshima, Saitama, Sapporo and Sendai tournaments will be held in each group, while China's Group D will also include teams from five countries: the United States, Puerto Rico, Slovenia, Italy and Senegal.

Yang Di still chose the No. 8 jersey he was used to in the national team, and after Younas and other coaching staff discussed and decided, the final 12-man squad of the Chinese team is as follows.

Point guards: Liu Wei, Chen Jianghua, Zhang Qingpeng

Quarterbacks: Wang Shipeng, Sun Yue

Small forward: Zhu Fangyu

Power forwards: Yang Di, Yi Jianlian, Wang Zhizhi, Du Feng

Center: Yao Ming, Zhang Songtao

Among them, many interior players can play both the No. 5 and No. 4 positions, and Yang Di has excellent ball control ability, and the coaching staff also intends to let him play small forward, after all, the Chinese team's outside weakness is more serious.

Team leaders Gong Luming and Xue Yunfei arranged a place for everyone to stay.

Then everyone was free to participate in the opening ceremony of the tournament and the opening dinner prepared by the organizing committee for the players.

Yang Di also didn't expect that his popularity in Japan was also very high, and when he got off the plane, there were many fans waiting to pick him up.

When they arrived at the hotel, there were still many people waiting for them to come out, and when they were free to move, as soon as they went out, they were surrounded by everyone.

"I don't understand!"

In addition to Japanese male fans, there are many female fans, Yang Di can't understand Japanese, so he can only greet them with a smile.

Like Yao Ming, he is also very popular, both of them are yellow people who have made a name for themselves in the NBA, and their influence is increasing day by day in Asia.

The whole team attended the dinner.

The organizing committee of the World Championships prepared the most sumptuous dinner in the region, a variety of Japanese dishes, the most popular teppanyaki, sushi, sashimi, ice cream, cheese, and draft beer.

"Huh, draft beer?"

"Of course it's not for you", Assistant Teacher A Dijiang walked over with a smile and said to Yang Di.

"These are all for us, as a teaching assistant and ordinary staff, there is no problem with drinking a little beer or something."

"Okay, I don't think I'm used to the food here, I like our Chinese food." After a month of intensive training, Yang Di and everyone in the national team are also familiar with a lot, and after many people get acquainted with it, they know that Yang Di does not have any star frame, but is very easy to speak, just like a college student.

"Hey, your American friend is here." Ah Dijiang saw a bunch of majestic men in the crowd chopping waves and passing through, and his eyes lit up, good guys, all of them are top basketball players in the NBA.

"Yang!"

James pointed at Yang Di, who was the first to step forward and straddle Wade.

Yang Di had a warm smile on his face, stepped forward and hugged James heavily: "You're here too, LeBron." ”

Subsequently, he hugged Wade, Anthony, Paul, Bosh and others.

"And me!"

The sound was like a bell, and Dwight Howard, who had grown stronger, also ran over, high-fived and hugged Yang Di, giggling, like a big boy.

"I've heard that Cameron is the captain, and you guys are menacing this time!" Yang Di really knows that this year's dream team has spent a lot of time training, the 02 World Championships, the 04 Men's Athens Olympics, and the United States has not won the championship in two consecutive World Championships.

Anthony smiled, the captain of the American team is indeed something to be proud of.

In this year's Dream Team, there are basically very young players, about 22 or 23 years old, and Jimmy, the assistant coach, is the head of Syracuse University and his mentor in college that year.

Wade looks in a good mood, puffing out his big cheeks and showing the charming smile of the world's top 50 beautiful men.

"After the World Championships, we are ready to go straight back to the United States, the summer is relatively short, so let's prepare, the new season will start soon." James said with a smile.

"Isn't it early? After the World Championships on September 3, there is still a month to go before the new season begins. ”

"It's a month's time, I have to prepare in advance, in case my body is out of shape, the coach will be dissatisfied with me." James said jokingly.

"Will your body be out of shape?" Yang Di glanced at him with strange eyes, he felt that James's figure was out of shape, unless he retired, he knew that James had always been very self-disciplined, and his daily diet was accurate to one ounce, and he ate 7 meals a day, eating more and eating less, very hard.

"One game a day, our first game against Puerto Rico, which team are you playing against?"

"Italy seems to be." Yang Di groped his chin, it should be Italy.

"Italy, I heard that this year's champion Bagyani will not participate in this year's World Championships?"

"Not participating?" Yang Di was taken aback, could it be that Italy has despised the NBA to such an extent? Or is there some conflict between their basketball association and Bhagyani?

"It's because Bagyani is going to play in the summer league and he's going to be ready for the new season." Chris Bosh explained to Yang Di when he saw that he had a ghostly expression.

"Oh, I see." Yang Di nodded, it is like this in Europe and the United States, although the honor of the country is also very important, but many players value more personal development, they have no absolute obligation to participate in international competitions, especially in Europe, basketball is not very valued, few people pay attention to the World Championship similar to the World Cup.

They'd rather watch a game of golf, or a bloody bullfight.

The concept is different, although Yang Di is not happy with some figures in the decision-making circle, but as long as the country has a calling, and he thinks that more important international events, he will definitely come back to participate in the competition.

So that's how he reached a settlement with the Basketball Association.

After everyone chatted for a while, other Chinese players also came over, Paul and Yi Jianlian said hello, Yao Ming and Sean Battier nodded in greeting, they are all new teammates in the new season, and it is good to communicate with each other.