林书豪只是中国人借来的英雄_BEC初级作文

林书豪只是中国人借来的英雄

Chinese sports fans had been looking for a new hero to call their own. Their top football league was upended in the past two years by a vast match-fixing scandal (39 players, referees, owners and officials were recently sentenced to jail for their part in it). Chinese basketball had seen no heir to Yao Ming as international standard-bearer. Then along came Jeremy Lin, a Taiwanese-American phenomenon who has been the story of the season in the National Basketball Association (NBA). American basketball is hugely popular in China, as are successful foreigners of Chinese origin. Mr Lin ticked both boxes, as he set about amassing an awful lot of points on the court. On February 20th Chinese time, Mr Lin's team, the New York Knicks, played a game against reigning NBA champions, the Dallas Mavericks. The game appeared to pitch two very different players against each other: Mr Lin against the once-hyped, Chinese-born-and-trained Yi Jianlian of the Mavericks. Mr Yi, it had been hoped, would succeed Mr Yao as a Chinese star in the NBA. 中国的体育爱好者一直希望能够拥有一个自己的体育英雄。过去两年，中国足坛黑幕被揭开（39名队员、裁判、俱乐部老板和官员入狱）；中国的篮球运动员也没有一个能够接替姚明成为新的代表国际水准的球员。不过，林书豪出现了，这位台湾裔的美籍运动员已经成为了美国篮球协会（NBA）新星。美国篮球在中国很受欢迎，同样，华裔的外籍运动员在中国也备受喜爱，林书豪正是一个完美人选，他在球场上成绩优秀。北京时间2月20日，林书豪所在的纽约尼克斯队对阵NBA王牌篮球队小牛队。在这场比赛中，两名球员成为了对手：林书豪对阵小牛队的中国球员易建联，后者一直被中国人寄予厚望，希望他能接替姚明的位置。