The meeting of two generations of national team players was slightly awkward.
Because Zhang Weiping left the national team due to factional struggles, and he was on the losing side.
Hu Weidong, on the other hand, was a young player promoted to the national team by the winning side, so to put it bluntly, they were not on the same side.
Moreover, Zhang Weiping left China for America in 1988, essentially stepping away from the national basketball system.
Hu Weidong joining the Los Angeles Lakers was a renowned event in basketball circles, and despite Zhang Weiping being in Los Angeles for so long, he had not tried to contact Hu Weidong.
Because there was always a hurdle in his heart that he couldn't get over.
However, with Gan Guoyang acting as an intermediary, the awkwardness quickly dissipated.
Despite the generational difference, meeting a fellow basketball person in a distant foreign country felt like finding water in a desert, a moment to savor.
