Greats take their place in China's new Hall of Fame
China DailyThe 2022 China Basketball Hall of Fame induction ceremony is held in Tianjin on Sunday. Nine legends, headlined by renowned coach Jiang Xingquan, Wang Zhizhi, the first Chinese man to play in the NBA, and former national women's team star center Zheng Haixia, were inducted during a grand ceremony as the inaugural class of the Chinese hall of fame. The class of 2022 also includes former men's national team forwards Hu Weidong and Liu Yudong, the late towering center Mu Tiezhu, members of the women's bronze medal-winning 1984 Olympic team Song Xiaobo and Cong Xuedi, and celebrated coach Xu Limin. Another 15 former players, coaches and promoters were also honored at the ceremony staged at a venue steeped in hoops history — China's oldest indoor basketball court in Tianjin's Nankai district, where the game began to be taught and played by young Chinese in the early 1900s. Later I learned that Yao also had to ask Haixia for her shoes," Wang said of the help from Zheng, a 2.06-meter juggernaut presence in the women's game in her prime in the 1990s.
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