What was Wang Zhizhi's experience in the NBA?
There is a saying among the fans of Dazhi: If Wang Zhizhi had entered the NBA league earlier, then Nowitzki's position should have been Wang Zhizhi!
What exactly does this sentence mean? The following xiaoyu takes everyone to review what happened to Wang Zhizhi in the past!
At that time, Dazhi had the opportunity to enter the NBA in 1998, and actually participated in the draft in 1999, until 2001, When Daiji officially entered the league!
Wang Zhizhi's first appearance on the international arena was at the World Youth Championships in Greece held in 1995, and his performance was very outstanding, attracting the attention of scouts.
By the 1996 Olympics, Wang Zhizhi had delivered a stunning four-seater block when defending Robinson, and since there were many scouts in the game at that time, after that Olympic Games, Wang Zhizhi received invitations from multiple teams! But this time it didn't let Dazhi directly enter the NBA league.
In 1997, when the Mavericks wanted to use the No. 34 sign to select Wang Zhizhi, but for various reasons, Wang Zhizhi did not sign up for the draft that year.
The Mavericks' appreciation of Dazhi did not end, until 1998, the Mavericks arranged for people to fly to the Chinese Basketball Association in advance to communicate, and in advance to eliminate the difficulties for Dazhi and wanted to poach Dazhi, the result was that the Basketball Association and the Bayi team did not have the intention of releasing people, so Dazhi had no chance to enter the NBA in that year
Another year passed, the time came to 1999, for various reasons, Dazhi did not sign up for the NBA draft,
But at that time, Dazhi had just turned 22 years old, and this age would automatically enter the draft list.
This year, the Mavericks selected the Chinese player Wang Zhizhi with the No. 36 draw, but the Bayi team at that time did not agree to release people... Although selected, Dazhi still can't enter the NBA arena!
Finally, in 2001, the Mavericks finally reached an agreement with the Chinese Basketball Association, and an exciting news came. Wang Zhizhi landed in the NBA in 2001!
Although the season was nearing the end of the season when Daisuke joined the NBA, it was also a breakthrough for himself!
In the 01-02 season. Dazhi missed the summer league and pre-season because of his participation in domestic competitions, and the Mavericks certainly did not want to, because this directly affected the training of Dazhi and the arrangement of coaching tactics, so the Mavericks had a lot of views on Dazhi, and Dazhi was also sandwiched in the middle, and it was difficult to choose, on the one hand, the team. On one side is the national team.
In the end, the relationship between the Basketball Association, Dazhi and Mavericks was very stiff until finally turned his face, and the unbearable Dazhi joined the Clippers for $4 million in the last two years and started the second team of his NBA career!
In the Clippers that year, Dazhi played a total of 43 games, averaging 4.4 points and 2 boards per game
Later joined the Heat, playing in 36 games with the Heat, averaging 2.5 points and 1 rebound per game.
Then after the end of the 04-05 season, because of the mediocre performance on the field, it was not up to the team's overdue at that time, and no one was interested in the free market, and since then, Dazhi has disappeared from the NBA...
Looking back at Dazhi's entire NBA experience, in fact, Xiaoyu feels that the Bayi team and the Chinese Basketball Association at that time were a bit too dependent on Dazhi, and the domestic games will let Dazhi come back to participate, resulting in Dazhi being difficult before entering the Mavericks, and now it seems that 97, 98 should be the best opportunity for Dazhi to enter the NBA, because at that time, Dazhi was in the best state, and if the Basketball Association could give Dazhi some freedom and let him concentrate on adapting to tactics and games in the Mavericks, I believe that Dazhi can also achieve a different future!!!
Look at Nowitzki's stats in his first year with the Mavericks at the time, he had just 8.2 points and 3.4 rebounds. DaZhi was a potential new star sought by the Mavericks at that time, but for various reasons, Dazhi had withered away before it began to bloom, and he really felt sorry for Dazhi...
Finally looking back at Dazhi's entire NBA career, he scored 21 points in the NBA with the highest score in a single game, played a total of 137 games, and the total salary in the NBA's career was $5.2 million
I hope that the shadow of Chinese players can appear again in the NBA arena as soon as possible, and then we can become real fans!