On May 20, 2015, the Chinese Basketball Association announced the trial method of "Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan players, college players, etc. participating in the CBA League to implement a unified draft", which means that the CBA and the NBA have the same draft system, but from the beginning, the draft of these two leagues is two completely different categories, the NBA's draft is to strengthen the weak team, the high-ranking players in the big year often become the core of the team's team, and the CBA draft is more like a supplement to increase exposure, and the draft leader to the superstar is still far away.
Chinese basketball pays more attention to sports schools or club youth training, college basketball is only a very small piece of professional leagues, China's CUBA is actually more like an amateur league, which is not much people can get the opportunity to stand on the CBA, from 2015 to 2022 there are eight winners born, what is their current situation?
2015 Champion: Fang Junlei (Northwestern Polytechnical University) is now a physical education teacher
Fang Junlei played for CUBA for northwestern polytechnical university for five seasons, playing as a point guard, playing in 45 games, averaging 11.2 points, 1.9 assists and 1.9 steals per game, helping the team reach the national quarterfinals four times. On August 19, 2015, at the first CBA Draft, 23-year-old Fang Junlei was selected by Chongqing Aolong Basketball Club with the first overall pick, becoming the first Champion in the history of the CBA.
Fang Junlei should have been a player who made history, but no one ever thought that this was his peak, after entering the CBA, Fang Junlei sat on the cold bench most of the time, and only played one game in the rookie season, getting 2 points and 1 assist. What is even more embarrassing is that he was actually only a rookie in that draft, other teams chose to abstain, and his contract with the team expired at the end of the season, and no team was willing to sign him, so he chose to retire.
Returning to his hometown in Hunan to work at Xinhua Bookstore, he joined Hunan Technology and Business University as a physical education teacher 5 years later, which was his only connection with basketball.
2016 Champion: Guo Kai (Peking University) got the top salary in Guangzhou
In 2014, the 22-year-old Guo Kai helped peking university team lift the CUBA championship trophy for the first time in its history, won the CUBS championship a year later, participated in the CBA draft in 2016 and was selected by Guangzhou Dragon Lions with the first pick.
In the rookie season, Guo Kai did not play much time, the first game only played 3.9 minutes of the data column is zero, just when people thought that Guo Kai would be as unable to adapt to the CBA as the previous champion Fang Junlei, he did not quietly improve in each season, and he averaged 4.7 points and 2.2 rebounds per game in the second season.
The 2021-2022 season is already his sixth season in the CBA, and he has grown step by step from an unsuitable champion to a heavy starter for Guangzhou, averaging 31.9 minutes per game, averaging 10.9 points and 9.3 rebounds per game, and his salary has also reached the maximum salary level, and Guangzhou is said to have given him a 3-year, 18 million contract.
2017 Champion: Chen Yingjun (Taiwan) was named an All-Star
Chen Yingjun is an aboriginal player from Miaoli, Taiwan, who has been playing in the Taiwan League before coming to the CBA, so he is more mature than other college players, and in 2017, he participated in the current season draft and was selected by the Guangzhou team, and the team gave him a 4+2 contract with a starting salary of 1.52 million yuan, which is a lot more than in Taiwan.
He also grew up here step by step, becoming the core point guard of the Guangzhou team, averaging 0.2 points, 2.7 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 1.7 steals per game in the rookie season, Chen Yingjun delivered 18 assists on February 4, 2021 to refresh the guangzhou team history record, and on March 3, he scored a new career high of 30 points and 9 assists, and won the 2020-2021 CBA League Monthly Best Domestic Player.
In the 2021-22 CBA regular season, Chen Yingjun averaged 19.1 points, 4.7 rebounds, 9.2 assists and 1.3 steals per game, and was selected as the CBA homegrown assist king, and was selected to the best team second team, while participating in the first All-Star Game of his career.
2018 Champion: Jiang Yuxing (Henan Youth Team) Season Best Team Second Team
Jiang Yuxing is 1 meter 92 tall and weighs 94 kilograms, he is a year older than Henan compatriot Zhou Qi, but when Zhou Qi went to play for the Rockets, Jiang Yuxing had just started his basketball career, playing in the NBL League before participating in the CBA draft. In 2018, he was selected by the Jilin Siberian Tigers with the first pick in the first round, and was elected the CBA Best Rookie in his rookie season.
His progress has been tremendous, averaging 14 points, 4.3 rebounds and 2.6 assists in his second season and was named to the CBA's All-NBA Second Team. In his third season, he averaged 15.4 points, 5 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 2.1 steals per game, and was named to the All-Star Team. In 2022, he was selected for the Tokyo Olympic Three-Man Basketball National Training Team and was selected into the five-man men's basketball talent pool for the national team to prepare for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, and is likely to become a member of the national men's basketball team one day.
In 2021-22, his average per game has risen to an average of 17.5 points + 5 rebounds per game, becoming the league's best of the week, the best of the month, the all-star, and selected for the best team second team.
2019 Champion: Wang Shaojie (Peking University) has been selected for the national team
Wang Shaojie studied at Tsinghua High School in high school, went to Peking University to help the team achieve three consecutive CUBA championships, and became the MVP of cuba finals twice. In 2019, he was selected by Beijing North Control team with the first pick in the first round, and he became a champion. He was elected MVP at that year's CBA All-Star Star Challenge.
In the second season, he averaged 11 points, 6.9 rebounds, 1.1 assists and 1 block per game, and zhai Xiaochuan, who was positioned with an injury, was selected as a CBA All-Star. In August 2020, he was selected for the men's basketball training team, and in June 2021, he was shortlisted for the 12-person roster of the men's basketball Olympic Tournament. However, in the 2021-2022 season, his improvement was less obvious, averaging 7.9 points, 5.2 rebounds and 1.2 assists in 23.5 minutes per game.
2020 Champion: Au Jun-hyun (California State University, Northridge) studying in the United States but becoming a parallel cargo?
Born in 1999, Ou Junxuan was sent to Novo League High School in Mexico at the age of 16, and was elected the best high school basketball player in Mexico for three consecutive years from his sophomore year to his senior year of high school.
In college, he joined the NCAA first-level league team UC Northridge, although this varsity team is not a traditional strong, but it is a very small number of pedals to stand in the first-level league, Ou Junxuan was a rotation player in college, averaging only 16.1 minutes of playing time in the most season, with 4.2 points and 2.4 rebounds.
Such data is not enough to base on the NBA so in 2020 back to China to participate in the draft and signed with the first pick than Shanghai, but he did not get enough trust in Shanghai, not even role players, and the previous three Chen Yingjun, Jiang Yuxing, Wang Shaojie compared with a big gap, the second season was traded to Fujian, gradually increased the playing time, averaging 9.9 points, 5 rebounds and 1.2 blocks per game, while he has more room for improvement.
2021 Title: Wang Yixiong (California State University Fulton) is plagued by injuries in his rookie season
Wang Yixiong was selected by Fujian in 2021 to become a new section champion, after he was also a first-class league team at California State University Fulton, and he played NCAA for four years but the data was worse than Ou Junxuan.
In the warm-up match between Fujian and Guangzhou, Wang Yixiong was hit by a leg injury in the third quarter, he rested for almost four months, and the league that returned to the stadium in the new season has been more than halfway through, he has only played 8 times in the whole season, averaging 7.6 points and 4.7 rebounds per game, but he still has some potential, and the double-element configuration of Wang Yixiong and Ou Junxuan is also worthy of more people's expectations.
2022 Champion: Wang Lanlan (Tsinghua University) novice on the road
Wang Lanlan is actually not young or even a year older than the 2020 Zhuangyuan District Junxuan, he is the 2021 CUBA final mvp, was picked by Nanjing Tongxi at the draft meeting on July 24 this year, is the first Tsinghua University student to become a CBA champion, won two university league championships and a final MVP, outstanding performance in the university league.
However, if you want to prove yourself in the professional arena, he still needs to walk a long way, many of the champions actually start from the bench, step by step to go further, for Wang Lanlan is no exception.
From the 8 champions in 2015, in addition to the newcomer Wang Lanlan, the other 7 people in the first local Junlei bid farewell to the basketball world early, Ou Junxuan and Wang Yixiong are playing substitutes, Guo Kai has won the top salary, Chen Yingjun and Jiang Yuxing have all-star experience, Wang Shaojie has been selected for the national team, but they can not become the box office guarantee of the CBA, college basketball and professional basketball still belong to the relationship of separation, the 8th draft actually does not have that kind of talented players, those people have long been absorbed by the professional team, This is the problem faced by the CBA draft, college basketball for professional basketball to promote is actually not much, can not become a platform and window to cultivate stars, but with the advancement of time, in fact, there are more people to stand out, which is a channel to the career for many college basketball players also has a certain impact and significance.