This year is a small year for the NBA draft, but for young Chinese players, it is a rare big year: four Chinese players Zeng Fanbo Zhang Zhenlin Yu Jiahao Guo Haowen have gone to the United States for special training, "hand in hand" to impact the NBA.
Unfortunately, compared with the glorious era of China Mobile Great Wall: Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi, Yi Jianlian and Battle, this generation of young people has fallen into a situation of "beautiful dreams and cruel reality" - the probability of being selected is minimal.
Which of these four people will have a relatively high probability? The answer is undoubtedly Zeng Fanbo, the only player of the four who has not played in the CBA.
Zeng Fanbo, born in Heilongjiang in 2003, joined the third team of the Beijing Shougang men's basketball team in 2015, and was selected into the Beijing Shougang men's basketball team eagle program in 2017 to study in the United States. Zeng Fanbo's basketball talent has gradually been put into play, before the epidemic in 2020, he has attracted the attention of many scouts, was rated by authoritative websites as a top four-star high school student (one step away from the highest level of five-star high school students), and reached a height of more than sixty high school players in the same age group.
Zeng Fanbo once received an offer from the nation's top Gonzaga University (the alma mater of Japan's first NBA player Hachimura, who specializes in developing international players), but he eventually chose to skip the university and go directly to the "ignition team" set up in the NBA Development League for young players with potential. Unfortunately, in this season of igniting the team, Zeng Fanbo was repeatedly plagued by injuries and did not perform as well as he wanted.
At the end of the season, Zeng Fanbo did not participate in the joint trial of rookies, but through the trial held by the agency CAA, as well as the trial of each team, to leave his own draft portrait, it is said that many teams have given him a fairly good evaluation.
Compared with Zeng Fanbo, Zhang Zhenlin and Yu Jiahao, who already have CBA game experience, only reached the level of three-star high school students during their high school years in the United States. Although in the CBA, they have won the honor of the best rookie, and they also have a fairly good performance on the data side and the game end.
Guo Haowen is another different situation: he was born in the Bayi men's basketball team, and after joining the Shanghai men's basketball team, he began to have the opportunity to go abroad to challenge the NBA. Guo Haowen participated in the trial training of three teams, but he pinned his greater hopes on the summer league, hoping to get a chance to be favored by the team through the performance of the summer league.
Upcoming NBA Draft, do you think anyone among them will be selected?