As the first foreign champion in the history of the NBA, Yao Ming has made brilliant achievements in the NBA, and has made great contributions to promoting the development of Chinese basketball and world basketball, and was inducted into the Hall of Fame after retiring. But there are still some people who believe that Yao Ming was elected because of the Chinese market. Such a claim is nonsense.
In the 1997–1998 season, he averaged 10 points and 8.3 rebounds per game. In the 1998-1999 season, he averaged 20.9 points and 12.9 rebounds per game In the 1999-2000 season, he averaged 21.2 points, 14.6 rebounds and 5.3 blocks per game. In the 2000-2001 season, he averaged 27.1 points, 19.4 rebounds and 5.5 blocks per game. In the 2001-2002 season, he averaged 32.4 points, 19 rebounds and 4.8 blocks per game.
It can be seen that after Yao Ming entered the CBA at the age of 17, his career has been in the process of continuous improvement, and over time, Yao Ming has gradually ruled the CBA. In the CBA, Yao Ming has no one to stop, there is not enough pressure, Yao Ming has no need to continue in the CBA, he needs a bigger stage, a wider sky.
In the 2000 Olympic Games, he averaged 10.5 points, 6 rebounds and 2.17 blocks per game. At the 2001 Asian Championship, he averaged 13.4 points, 10.1 rebounds and 2.8 blocks per game. At the 2002 World Championships, he averaged 21 points, 9.8 rebounds and 2.25 blocks per game.
His excellent performance on the international stage enabled Yao Ming to establish his position as asia's first center step by step, and even the first basketball player in Asia. Yao Ming's excellent performance also quickly attracted the attention of NBA scouts, and then gradually entered the eyes of the league's major leaders.
In 1998, at the age of 18, Yao Ming was invited to participate in a world basketball training camp in which Yao Ming beat Tyson Chandler. Who is Chandler? 2001's Eye Show! After this training camp, Yao Ming built up great confidence and made the scouts realize Yao Ming's great potential! Years later, Yao Ming recalled: As soon as I finished playing with Chandler, I knew that I could be a champion.
Pros: Has all the talent to be a great defensive player, moving fast, judging timing accurately, and bouncing well, not to mention his arm span. And Yao Ming is only 21 years old, with unlimited potential; not only has the ability to shoot from the face frame, but also can shoot from 18 feet away, even outside the three-point line; Yao Ming is also a good passer when facing the bag clip!
Cons: Rebounding is good, but needs to be improved; poor upper-limb strength affects his ability to block; lack of experience, because in the CBA league, Yao Ming's competition is not fierce.
Some scouts directly pointed out that Yao Ming was the best rookie in the class of 2002, and there was no one, the only champion. It can be seen that in the eyes of the NBA's professional scouts, Yao Ming is talented and a piece of jade, with huge potential waiting to be tapped.
Write at the end:
In the NBA, a pick-up may affect the development of the team in the next ten or even twenty years, such as The Spurs' Duncan, so the importance of the championship in the NBA is self-evident. Some NBA staff have also said that the reasons for the Chinese market cannot affect the choice of champions, and Yao Ming was elected only because of strength!
Yao Ming has been unstoppable in the CBA period; gradually played the title of The First Man in Asia on the international stage; played chandler in the 2001 chart in the training camp; in the eyes of NBA scouts, he is a rookie with outstanding potential; and in the eyes of NBA management, he is a future superstar. It's well deserved to be a champion! The so-called Yao Ming was elected because of the Chinese market reasons is just nonsense!