Yao Ming responded to the U17 Women’s Basketball League dispute: he will optimize the competition system and watch more attention in the U series
Live broadcast on August 16 according to the report of China New Sports, a few days ago, the final of the top six women’s team in the national U17 Youth Basketball League ended in 2023. Shandong U17 Women’s basketball and Zhejiang U17 Women’s Basketball met in the finals, and finally Shandong team played 96:63 Nike. However, according to the general ranking evaluation rules, the Zhejiang team finally won the championship and the Shandong team won the runner-up by combining the results of the competition, the scores of quality and technology standards and the scores of technical evaluation.
Yao Ming, chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association, responded to this: “In response to this issue, we discussed internally and proposed a series of modification plans, which will be implemented after the end of the current competition cycle. We also hope to fully listen to the opinions and suggestions of all parties, actively optimize the league competition system, and dedicate more exciting events to the fans.”
At the same time, Yao Ming also hopes that U series events can attract more social attention. It is understood that some social clubs have signed up for U14 and U15 this season. In the future, U series competitions are planned to be open to the society, and the organizers expect to attract more social clubs to join.
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