Live Bar, May 18-today, Los Angeles spark officially announced that the team had laid off Yang Liwei.
According to Weibo media people, we love women’s basketball. In fact, before Yang Liwei signed a contract with spark in Los Angeles, Spark asked Yang Liwei many times whether he needed to fight for the country in FIBA Asian Cup in June.
The leaders of the Basketball Association and the national team expressed support for Yang Liwei to pursue dreams and support her to improve herself in the higher level league. Therefore, Yang Liwei went to Los Angeles smoothly.
However, due to the temporary changes of FIBA’s rules related to the Olympic qualification system, the Olympic qualification competition originally scheduled for November will be merged with FIBA Women’s Basketball Asian Cup in June, the final result of this women’s basketball Asian Cup will directly determine the Paris Olympic seats (the top four teams will win the Olympic quota).
In the current list of China’s women’s basketball for training, up to 8 players have never played international matches, therefore, the national team and the Basketball Association hope that all the players in WNBA, including Yang Liwei, will arrive in Sydney no later than June 20 to meet with the national team to prepare for the Asian Cup. As the captain of China’s women’s basketball, Yang Liwei immediately expressed his determination to fight for the country and respected the organization’s arrangements and decisions after receiving the notice. During the following period, Yang Liwei will continue to stay in the United States for training and apply for a visa to Australia.
In addition, love women’s basketball also learned that Liwei’s performance in preseason has attracted great attention from WNBA teams including Seattle Storm, Minnesota Tigercat, Phoenix Mercury, and New York free men. She will also return to the United States to continue her dream after ensuring that China has won the Olympic qualification women’s basketball in the Asian Cup.