On Sunday, Liaoning beat Guangdong 87-79 in the men's Under-22 basketball final at the Chinese National Games in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, prompting Liaoning's head coach Yang Ming to hand over the gold medal to the team director Jiang Xingquan.

That topic was viewed over 150 million times on Sina Weibo on Sunday night alone.

Jiang, 81, a true icon of Chinese basketball, has coached the national team, the youth team, and the CBA teams of Liaoning, Xinjiang, Zhejiang, Guangzhou, and other places.

Liu Yudong, who gave the medal to Jiang, played under Jiang in both the youth and the national team. Back then, Liu was the best power forward of China nicknamed "God of War."

Winners of bronze medals, Zhejiang, also applauded him because he worked as the consultant for the province's team for three years and helping the team, especially their young players. Zhejiang's young men never forgot about that.

Many head coaches in today's CBA used to play or work under Jiang in the old days. Du Feng of the Guangdong Southern Tigers, Guo Shiqiang of the Guangzhou Loong Lions, Gong Xiaobin of the Shandong Heroes, Li Chunjiang of the Shanghai Sharks, Liu Weiwei of the Zhejiang Golden Bulls and Adiljan Suleyman of the Xinjiang Flying Tigers are all "disciples" of Jiang.

After Jiang had Yang's gold, Liaoning's point guard Zhao Jiwei gave his medal to Yang, who accepted it at the request of Jiang.