In the basement of Shen Yang's home, there is a storage room that stores souvenirs about basketball and the NBA.
In Shen Yang's words, these things are not valuable, but carry her as a basketball reporter bit by bit, record her experience, confirm her growth.
From the nervous "little Shen Yang" who cried when he first came to the United States in 2009, to the "Sister Shen" and "Son Shen" today.
In the past eight years, Shen Yang has grown from a young girl to an outstanding NBA reporter. Her work performance has won the unanimous recognition of league executives, team executives, historical celebrities, current stars and fans, and she has walked out of a road to success in the male-dominated NBA.
In these 8 years, Shen Yang has written a lot of stories about NBA, and this time is her own story, about dreams, about courage, about perseverance, is a Chinese girl in the NBA to break through the wind and waves.
Shen Yang holds a photo in her hand, a group photo of her and Anthony.
This photo was taken in the 2009 NBA China Game, when Anthony, 25 years old, was the star of the Nuggets, in the Beijing game in less than 25 minutes scored 45 points, the NBA China Game history player's single-game scoring record.
It was in that year that Shen Yang became a reporter covering the NBA.
NBA has regulations for media interviews, non-work needs, reporters can not take photos with players, but Shen Yang, who had just entered the NBA media circle, did not understand these rules, and left this very memorable photo by mistake.
"2009 was a very important year for me. It was the first time I covered the NBA as a basketball reporter. It was very important for me to cover the China game." Shen Yang said, "Now we all know that as an NBA reporter, you can not ask for a photo with the players, because I was a novice, a lot of things do not know, so left such a photo, fortunately Anthony is very nice, he said no problem." Anthony was still wearing a red scarf and I was very green."
8 years ago, the interview will be "illegal" Xiao Shen Yang, is now a senior reporter in the NBA, live reports, interviews with stars, in-depth comments, 8 years will Shen Yang honed skillfully.
Tencent Sports became the exclusive official partner of NBA China digital media in 2015, and Shen Yang joined Tencent Sports Front News team.
After ESPN and Tencent began a long-term partnership, Shen Yang became a courtside reporter, bringing first-hand information to fans before and after games.
Shen Yang created a lot of "firsts", she was the first representative of Tencent to go to the White House to report the president's meeting with the NBA champion team, and was the only Chinese media person to participate in the live broadcast at that time.
Shen Yang is the first Chinese reporter to win both regular season awards and All-Star voting rights, and she is also the first Chinese media person to walk the red carpet to cover the NBA Awards ceremony.
Shen Yang has established a friendly cooperative relationship with people from all aspects of the NBA, she has interviewed the NBA president Xiao Hua for many times, and has conducted a lot of in-depth interviews with NBA stars, such as the Warriors four giants have been interviewed by Shen Yang.
In addition, Shen worked with team executives to broaden the scope of coverage, so that fans can listen to the team's administrators to tell the story of the NBA team's many hidden inside operations. When the Warriors won the championship in 2017, Shen Yang conducted an interview with the Warriors boss Lacob, Shen Yang became the first Asian reporter to interview Lacob. In that interview, lacob opened up about the Warriors' "winning formula," detailing how the concepts of venture capital and Silicon Valley blend perfectly with the NBA to create a champion team.
In Shen Yang's jersey collection, there is a Nets No. 9 jersey, which is the jersey of Yi Jianlian when he played for the Nets, which has the autograph of the Arab League.
Shen, who began covering the NBA in 2009, was first based in the New York area and later traveled to Washington to report from the field, and was a witness and companion to Yi Jianlian during his struggles with the Nets and Wizards.
"I spent most of Yi Jianlian's time in the NBA recording and interviewing him. He was taciturn on the surface, but dry and humorous in private. I used to laugh at him as a complete scorpion man, dupliciousness, and he even put my 'jokes' on his micro blog, "Shen Yang said," In his most silent moment, I was the only Chinese journalist who remained, at that time, our days were very difficult." He had no ball to play, I had nothing to write about. So you have some revolutionary camaraderie."
