As the No. 6 pick in the 2007 draft, Yi Jianlian left such a report card in the NBA: 272 games in four seasons (163 starts), averaging 7.9 points, 4.7 rebounds and 0.7 blocks per game, and shooting 40.4%/33.3%/78.0% of the three-field shooting rate.
Putting aside the fan filter of the Chinese, in terms of the No. 6 show pick in the upper zone of the lotto show, the uae's performance is not very qualified. As a big forward, only has a shooting rate of more than 40%, which is enough to show that the UAE League can only take the basic salary and play for another year after the end of the rookie contract and leave the NBA.
It is worth mentioning that the NBA career results of the UAE League are often regarded by fans as the second person in China after Yao Ming. I generally agree with this statement, but I can actually add one more information here. Back then, after the end of the first contract, Wang Zhizhi signed a mini-middle-class contract on the NBA free market.
Speaking of the NBA career of the UAE, in the early days when Milwaukee started his career and followed the Nets, the team was interested in cultivating the UAE League, and the opportunities to play the opening game were quite numerous. However, on the one hand, the strength of the UAE League at that time and the ability to integrate into the foreign basketball culture were insufficient; on the other hand, the UAE League's performance fluctuated greatly, and more than once it was interrupted by injuries for a short period of continuous highlights. Naturally, the UAE League quickly lost the trust of NBA teams as a cornerstone, losing its place on the team in the ongoing fierce competition.
As mentioned earlier, in 272 NBA games, the UAE has played as a starter in 163 games. So, which players has the UAE League played as a substitute in the NBA league? In this article, the author will make an inventory according to the timeline for your reference and recall the years of struggle exclusive to the UAE.
1. Charlie Villanueva
Charlie Villanueva, the No. 7 pick in the 2005 first round, was traded by the Raptors to the Bucks in 2006 and nicknamed "The Man Without Eyebrows."
During the 2007/08 season, Charlie Villanueva was a strong rival in the big forward position, the average time difference between the two was not much, the UAE league played a little more starts, villanueva also tried to start the uae league as a substitute. In terms of statistics, that season, the UAE was averaging 8.6 points and 5.2 rebounds per game, and Villanueva averaged 11.7 points and 6.1 rebounds per game.
The year after the UAE League was sent away by the Bucks, Charlie Villanueva's stats exploded to the level of 16.2 points and 6.7 rebounds per game. It can be said that although Charlie Villanueva is only a mediocre lottery show, the NBA career achievements that have survived for ten years are still much stronger than the UAE.
Ii. Ryan Anderson
During his tenure from 2008 to 2010, Yi Jianjian played 113 games and started 103 games, with no starters mostly concentrated in the 08/09 season. Most of the games that did not start were due to injury returning to find form, and in these games, the replacement of the UAE League as the starting striker was Ryan Anderson, who is quite familiar to modern fans.
Although Ryan Anderson is also a big forward who lacks low-post offensive means, he can shoot 36.8% of the three-point shooting rate in the first season, and his shooting mechanism and shooting speed are better than the average big man. After being traded to the Magic and Pelicans, Ryan Anderson played several 15-point, six-rebound-level stats, and his three-point shooting percentage was 40 percent for many years. After the end of his rookie contract, Ryan Anderson got a contract extension with an average salary of $8.5 million, followed by a super contract with an average salary of about $19 million, which was called the winner of life in the No. 21 show.
III. André Brache
Back before the start of the 10/11 season, Yi Jianlian was traded to the Washington Wizards. After the first three seasons of disappointing the outside world, basically NBA teams have a definite understanding of the strength positioning of Yi Jianlian. After the UAE Join the Wizards, he was positioned as a standard interior substitute, averaging 18 minutes per game and averaging only 5.9 points and 3.9 rebounds per game.
In terms of lineups, before Rashad Lewis was traded to the team in mid-season, the Wizards tended to pose for the interior twin towers of McGee Single-Brache, who was still a skinny man with a flexible turn, and the UAE League's appearance order in the big forward position was after it was there. That season, Brache, a veteran CBA acquaintance, averaged 14.1 points and 6.3 rebounds per game.
4. Rashad Lewis
In the mid-10/11 season, the Magic made a swap deal with the Wizards, with Rashad Lewis and Gilbert Arenas, two much-maligned and frightened billionaires swapping owners.
In terms of style of play, the characteristics of Rashad Lewis should be familiar to everyone, even if it is a turret forward who floats outside to shoot three points, and has a certain offensive ability to hold the ball and frame the ball. After joining the Wizards, Rashad Lewis naturally took the lead, averaging 11.4 points and 5.8 rebounds per game, while Yi Jianlian slipped down as Lewis's second-placer. For the UAE League, which was in a contract year, the arrival of Lewis was undoubtedly an uncontrollable career blow.
V. Dirk Nowitzki
After the 10/11 season, because Yi Jianlian performed mediocrely in the Washington Wizards, few teams in the market made qualification offers to Yi Jianlian. In the end, only the Dallas Mavericks, who had signed Mr. Wang, were willing to give the UAE a $827,000-a-year base salary contract.
Before joining the Mavericks, the UAE League played for a rotten team, and coming to Dallas was naturally even more unable to get a chance. Throughout the 11/12 season, the UAE League has only made 30 appearances, averaging 2.6 points and 1.6 rebounds per game, averaging less than 7 minutes per game. At the Dallas Mavericks, Dirk Nowitzki was a thunderous starter.
In addition, at that time, there were Marion and Odom in the team who could make cameo appearances as big forwards, and the UAE League naturally could only play the water dispenser administrator. However, in the short years of playing for the Dallas Mavericks, the UAE League ushered in the only playoff opportunity in the NBA career, which is also a special gain.