According to NBA rules, players who sign up for the draft can only be selected in the draft if they participate in a joint tryout. But the NBA's official announcement of the joint trial list does not have Choi Yong-hee's name. It can be said that his chances of hitting the NBA this year are already very slim, maybe it would be better to withdraw his candidacy and wait until next year to participate again, otherwise he can only become a loser. Of course, for Xiao Cui's brave performance of chasing dreams, we must have unlimited support, as long as we go out and see the masters in other parts of the world, we can make progress and improve our basketball level.
At present, there is only one Chinese player in the NBA, Li Kaier, but everyone knows that he was naturalized halfway, and among the players produced by our local production, there is no one who can play in the NBA, and the last one is Zhou Qi, which is also in 2019. In recent years, Zeng Fanbo and others have also tried to impact the NBA, but in the end they all failed. It can be said that the NBA is something that Choi Yong-hee and other players can't ask for. However, there is one other active player who has been drafted by an NBA team. Cui Yongxi couldn't ask for it, why was Wang Zhelin selected by the Grizzlies for 8 years, but he didn't go to play in the NBA?
Zhou Qi was drafted by the Rockets with the 43rd pick in 2016, and he spent a year and a half in Houston, playing 19 times and scoring a total of 24 points. He was sent to the Development League by the Rockets many times, and then recalled, but the progress was never very great, so he was abandoned by the Rockets. Now Zhou Qi has completely given up the idea of returning to the NBA and focuses on domestic CBA games. In the same year, the Grizzlies selected Wang Zhelin with the 57th pick, which is the only time in our Chinese basketball history that two players have been selected by an NBA team at the same time.
At that time, the Grizzlies were in a rebuilding period, and they always liked to choose international players, and at that time, the king's performance at the Nike Summit was very prominent, beating other well-known players who participated together, and he also entered the field of vision of NBA scouts, coupled with the huge Chinese market behind him, so the Grizzlies were willing to give Wang Zhelin a chance.
But Wang Zhelin himself didn't think so, he didn't sign up for the NBA draft, and the rules at that time were different from now, as long as professional athletes over 22 years old were automatically eligible to participate, so the Grizzlies could directly select Wang Zhelin. After that, as long as Wang Zhelin wants to go to the NBA, he must first sign with the Grizzlies. It is said that when the Grizzlies announced the selection of Wang Zhelin, he himself was still asleep and did not wake up.
The reason why I didn't report for duty after being selected is that the draft pick is too low, and there is not much difference between the end of the second round and the draft, and the only advantage is that there is a formal contract, and it is difficult to have playing time in the team. Second, the NBA has entered the era of small ball in 2016, and a slow-moving big center like Wang Zhelin is becoming more and more useless, and he may also sit on the bench when he goes.
And in 2016, there was such an incident, Yi Jianlian, who performed well in the Olympics, hoped to return to the NBA and sign a contract with the Lakers, but after the test of the preseason, it was still difficult to adapt, and finally returned home. Big Brother is still like this, which also hit Wang Zhelin's confidence to a certain extent.
Now, Wang Zhelin is 30 years old, he has won many honors in the CBA, has a stable team status and high popularity, and it is even more impossible to consider the NBA, for him, it is indeed an illusory thing.