On April 27, Beijing time, South Korean basketball rising star Lee Hyun-jung officially announced the hiring of agents to participate in the 2022 NBA Draft, and domestic first-line basketball media reported: "South Korean forward Lee Hyun-chung officially announced the employment of agents to participate in the 2022 NBA Draft. Li Xian, a 22-year-old post-00s player, has been studying and playing in the United States in high school, played for Davidson College during college, and is the little brother of NBA superstar Steven Curry. It is reported that Lee Hyun-jung plans to participate in the Chicago joint trial and is expected to give up participating in the Men's Basketball Asian Cup held this summer, so that the strength of the South Korean men's basketball team will be affected.
In the just-concluded NCAA First Division junior season, Lee Hyun Chung played as the core of Davidson College, averaging 16.5 points, 6 boards and 2 assists per game in the regular season, leading Davidson College to win the A10 league regular season championship with an impressive record of 25 wins and 5 losses, while playing into crazy March. Lee Hyun weighs 2.01 meters tall and is a forward-guard swinger based on three-point projection. As a Korean Asian player, he can play the core of an NCAA First Division team, which is enough to reflect Lee Hyun-jung's excellence. In the history of Asian basketball, Lee Hyun-chung ranked Third in his overall NCAA First Division, behind Japan's Yuta Watanabe and Yamura.
Lee Hyun-chung is a basketball player with lofty ideals, who once revealed that he set a goal to enter the NBA after seeing the Warriors win the championship in junior high school. If Lee Hyun Chung is eventually selected by the NBA team, it is believed that it will cause fluctuations in the Asian basketball world. In contrast, the outstanding players of the same age group as Li Xianzhong in the Chinese basketball world include Guo Haowen, Xu Jie, jiang Weize, who entered the CBA professional league early, and the rest of the players also include Wang Quanze in the United States, Jiao Boqiao, who once had no ball to play, and also signed a follow-up contract with the CBA team Guangzhou men's basketball team. This group of Chinese men's basketball players after 00, only Guo Haowen chose to participate in the NBA draft, trying to impact the higher stage.
It is worth mentioning that this time Li Xianzhong signed up for the 2022 NBA Draft, the Chinese basketball world actually has a player who actively signed up, that is, 19-year-old Zeng Fanbo, who played in the NBA Development League in the past year, the same choice to impact the NBA this summer, if it can not be selected by the NBA team, according to the previous and Beijing Shougang regulations, Zeng Fanbo needs to return to the CBA League to play. Compared with Li Xianzhong, Zeng Fanbo is younger and has greater potential, and he also has a long-term experience of playing in the United States. But Zeng Fanbo can not guarantee that he will continue to stay in the United States to impact the NBA after losing the election, he needs to play in the CBA League for Beijing Shougang, on the contrary, Li Xianzhong has a lot of room for processing, and he can choose to stay in the United States to play in the NBA Summer League, or play in the NBA Development League, and master all the opportunities to get NBA contracts.
In the past 10 years, the development of Asian basketball has undergone many changes, the Chinese men's basketball team since Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian, only Zhou Qi and the NBA have a real connection, while Japan, South Korea began to emerge and the NBA has been associated with the players, Japan at this stage even has Watanabe Yuta and Yamura two players playing in the NBA. Although the majority of the number of players in the NBA cannot directly determine the hard strength of a team, only in the personal development of players, the Chinese men's basketball team continues to show a state of retreat, while Japan and South Korea are improving.
(Lin Xiaoxiang)