On May 9, Beijing time, the men's basketball player Zhou Qi and a domestic basketball media person connected to do an online interview, revealing his future home, Zhou Qi said that the season has just ended, the future where to go is not yet guaranteed, but the specific is three directions, the first is the domestic CBA league, the second is to continue to play in the Australian league, the third is to go to the United States to play to try to impact the NBA.
When it comes to being invited by the NBA team Pacers to play in the summer league, Zhou Qi further confirmed that he accepted the Pacers' invitation before the end of the season, the first invitation was to play in the NBA Summer League, and the follow-up trial may also be carried out. However, Zhou Qi stressed that considering that the national team has many games this summer, after discussing with the relevant departments of the Basketball Association, it was decided to give up the invitation of the Pacers, and Zhou Qi wanted to prepare for the national team game. According to the schedule, in addition to the postponed Asian Games, the Chinese men's basketball team also needs to play in the World Preliminary Tournament and the Asian Cup this summer, and the pressure of the game is not small, and Zhou Qi, as the main player, is very important.
Zhou Qi's specific answer was: "In the second half of the season, there was a scout who came to see us training, and after training, he found me, hoping that I would play in this summer league and talk about trial training later. I'll leave a spot if I can, and I've said that there are still national team games in the summer and I'm going to communicate with the Basketball Association, and he knows our side very well. To be precise, the timing of the game is conflicting with each other, and if I choose it, it is to play in the national team. ”
Zhou Qi also added: "If there is this opportunity, I actually still want to try again, even if the final result is not good, I think for me personally, in fact, I went to try, I feel that there is no regret." ”
Obviously, Zhou Qi still has his own ideas for impacting the NBA, and his desire is very high, not that he does not want to chase his dreams, but he conflicts with the national team and has no choice but to give up. Looking back at the outstanding players in the active Chinese basketball world, after Yi Jianlian, only Zhou Qi has many years of overseas playing experience, from 2017 to 2019, Zhou Qi played in the NBA, although most of the time played in the NBA Development League, but also got a lot of promotion. Then this past season, Zhou Qi went to the Australian League to play in the NBL League, and it can be seen that Zhou Qi has always wanted to go out to improve his self-ability, which is commendable.
Of course, Zhou Qi's current situation is very similar to that of his predecessors such as Wang Zhizhi, Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian, and many times the offseason arrangement needs to give priority to the national team, and the personal work plan arrangement needs to be considered in the second place. Based on this factor, Zhou Qi wants to return to the NBA stage again and needs to make more efforts to become stronger, to see if he can directly get a formal NBA contract. Zhou Qi, 26, is still chasing the NBA dream, and he has been running without stopping.
(Lin Xiaoxiang)