Liu Yudong

Who is Liu Yudong?

Liu Yudong, is a Chinese basketball player playing for the Fujian Xunxing club in the Chinese Basketball Association. He held the CBA record for most career points scored until it was broken by Zhu Fangyu on 1/1/2012.

Liu spent his first eight CBA seasons with the Bayi Rockets, where he become the second best scorer in CBA history, with a league-best scoring average 25.9 points per game. After winning the CBA championship in all but one seasons-2002, to a Yao Ming-led Shanghai Sharks- Liu retired in 2003 because of knee injury. He came back the next season and was voted to the all-star game. Liu retired again in 2005 for the troubling knees and became an assistant coach for the Rockets. In 2007, Liu came out from a two-year retirement to lead the Fujian Xunxing.

Liu is a senior colonel in the People's Liberation Army. He was also the flag bearer of the Chinese sports delegation at the opening ceremony of the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics.