Yao Ming: I hope there will be more and more games like this. The Shanghai Tomorrow Star Basketball Championship will open in August. Shanghai | Basketball | Competition
"Teenagers are the future of basketball. I hope that more and more games like" Tomorrow's Star "will be held, and better and better. I wish the 2023 Shanghai Tomorrow's Star Basketball Championship a complete success."
After the Tomorrow Star Champions Cup football match, the Shanghai independent brand event Tomorrow Star Series has added a new member this summer - the 2023 Shanghai Tomorrow Star Basketball Championship. At tonight's event press conference, Yao Ming, the President of the Chinese Basketball Association, sent a congratulatory video.
Cong Xuedi, a member of the Chinese Basketball Hall of Fame, and Wang Zhelin, the captain of the Shanghai Jiushi Men's Basketball Team, have been hired as ambassadors for this year's Tomorrow's Star Basketball Championship. The two basketball players, one old and one young, have been passing on the Shanghai basketball torch from generation to generation, inspiring the new generation of athletes to constantly strive and achieve better results.
Shanghai has always been a hot land for basketball, and this summer, the hot basketball atmosphere will once again sweep through Shanghai. The 2023 Shanghai Tomorrow Star Basketball Championship will be held from August 8th to 12th. The overall plan and logo of the event were also unveiled at this press conference. The game logo design adopts basketball's usual color scheme, with a basketball as the main body. The basketball and the stars form an upward trend, symbolizing that through Shanghai's top youth competition platform, star players will surely be nurtured in the future. The patterns on the sphere form the Shanghai abbreviation "Shen", showcasing the Shanghai genes of the competition.
The competition attracted six high-level youth teams from Serbia, Japan, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and the host Shanghai, China, who gathered a lot of experts to participate in the competition. They are: Serbia Belgrade Vizura Basketball Academy Team, which trained the famous player Jokic; Fukuoka University Affiliated Oho High School Team, the champion of this year's Japanese High School Student League; Last year's Taiwan, China High School Basketball League champion Hsinchu Guangfu Senior High School Team; Hong Kong Oriental Youth Team, the strongest youth team in Hong Kong Island; The two teams representing Shanghai in the competition are the Shanghai Shark Elite Team and the Shanghai High School Student Union, composed of high-quality campus basketball players and the Jiushi Shark Youth Team. Li Qiuping, the coach of Shanghai Basketball Merit, will serve as the head coach of the two Shanghai Youth Armies and also serve as the coach of the Shanghai Shark Elite Team.
"I also think that the more games there are, the better!" When discussing the establishment of this competition, Li Qiuping and Yao Ming share the same view. He said, "What we young basketball players in Shanghai lack the most is high-level and different types of competition opportunities, especially opportunities to exchange and learn from foreign youth. This competition can be said to provide a good learning and growth platform, allowing our young players to experience advanced foreign basketball concepts and gain valuable practical experience."
The final of this competition will be held at the Shanghai Sports Center, which will be the first appearance of the renovated Shanghai Sports Center. The "star venues" that witness the changes of the times and the countless glories of Chinese sports will make a new appearance through a newly created youth brand competition.
The renovated Shanghai Sports Center has a building area of 40552 square meters and can accommodate nearly 13000 seats. The exterior facade of the building retains its original style, while the interior is upgraded through renovation to meet the hosting needs of top international events such as basketball, volleyball, table tennis, snooker, fighting, and esports. The cool lighting atmosphere and stunning sound effects will also become the new highlights of this "star venue". The on-site lighting is achieved through grouping and intelligent control system dimming to create lighting effects for various events, training modes, and atmospheres. In August this year, top-notch venue facilities and top-notch youth basketball talents will complement each other, bringing a youth basketball feast to Shanghai and providing assistance for the development of sports in Shanghai.
Sports events are one of the core elements of Shanghai's construction as a globally renowned sports city. Shanghai Sports has always adhered to a global perspective and global perspective, hosting and hosting high-level domestic and international events with first-class hardware, first-class services, and first-class operations, while actively cultivating local brand events.
As a youth sports series event hosted by the Shanghai Municipal Sports Bureau, the Tomorrow's Star Series is a key independent brand series event developed by Shanghai during the 14th Five Year Plan period, covering three major sports: football, basketball, and volleyball. The Shanghai Tomorrow Star Basketball Championship made its debut this year, aiming to build a high-level platform to help young athletes accumulate experience, improve their abilities, broaden their horizons, and create a good basketball atmosphere for Shanghai.
In the future, the competition will continue to expand its scale, inviting outstanding young basketball players from around the world to gather in Shencheng. Through exchanges and exhibitions, more people will experience the charm of youth basketball, cultivate the fertile soil of Shanghai basketball culture, enrich Shanghai's Shanghai style sports culture, and contribute to the construction of Shanghai as a world-renowned sports city.
