Veteran Rockets fans of more than a decade may remember the season wells joined the Rockets at that time, remembering the well-behaved and difficult to tame Wells. In the 2008-2009 season, Bunch Wells joined the CBA League Shanxi Zhongyu team, and in the debut of the Shanxi team, he scored a double-double of 48 points and 11 rebounds, and in a total of 14 games, Wells was able to contribute 34 points per game to the Shanxi team, becoming the biggest foreign aid in the CBA at that time. When Bunchwells joined the CBA, Shanxi became the most sensational team in the Chinese Basketball League. Since then, the CBA team has also been eager to introduce NBA big names! Then there was Francis, Maddie, etc. However, in February 2009, because Wells did not return to the team in time according to the regulations, the Shanxi team terminated his contract with him.
Wells in the CBA
Bunch Wells was born in 1976 in The Small Eastern City of Mansi, Indiana, an American NBA basketball player who played for five NBA teams, including the Portland Trail Blazers, Sacramento Kings, and Houston Rockets. Strange heavy tonnage swing man, chaotic warfare master. Less than two meters tall, the stats and low singles ability are like a big forward. From the Blazers' problem players to Memphis' bench regulars, he eventually found the best space to show his talents in Sacramento, but unfortunately failed to agree with the team on the issue of contract extension. Bunch Wells was selected by the Pistons with the 11th pick in the 1998 NBA Draft, but his NBA career was much more mediocre. In his 10-year NBA career, Wells has played for 5 teams, has not won any personal honors, has a total salary of less than 40 million, and has only broken through the first round of the playoffs twice. Such performances are indeed a bit banal for a No. 11 show.
But every contract year, Wells always bursts with amazing energy and plays a good number. Because of this, Bunch Wells also played a masterpiece in the NBA, that is, the 2006 playoffs (the last year of Wells' contract), the Kings' first-round opponent in the playoffs was the defending champion Spurs, who ranked first in the West in the regular season, and many people thought that the Kings who took the last train of the playoffs would be swept by the Spurs, but did not expect that the Kings would make the Spurs break out in a cold sweat, not because of Mike Bibby and Artest, but the bunge Wells who had just joined.
Wells during the reign of kings
1.96-meter-tall Bunch-Wells averaged 23.2 points and 12.0 rebounds in six games in the series (Wells only had one meter 96 yo), both of which were the highest of the two teams, shooting 60.9% from the field and shooting 62.5% from outside the three-point line. To know that Duncan's average of only 18.3 points and 9.2 rebounds per game in this series is only 18.3 points, and Bunch Wells's data is full of gold!
Despite the Kings' first-round exit, Wells's playoff performance impressed the management, and they offered Wells, who was 30 years old, a five-year, 36-million contract extension, you know, the NBA salary cap at the time was less than 50 million, but Wells, who exploded Duncan's self-confidence, actually rejected the largest total contract obtained in his personal NBA career. The decision is sure to be unforgettable for Wells, as not only was it a major turning point in his NBA career, but he could only sign with the Rockets on a 2-year, $5 million contract that followed.
At that time, many people thought that the Rockets had "picked up the treasure", but in the end Wells' performance on the Rockets was extremely disappointing. In the Rockets, Wells returned to the "problem boy", only participated in 28 regular season games throughout the season, averaging only 7.8 points and 4.3 rebounds per game, shooting only 41.1% from the field, scoring per game the lowest value since his rookie season, shooting percentage was the lowest record in his 10-year NBA career, failed to participate in the playoffs, and watched the Rockets in the first round of the big score 2-0 lead in the case of the Jazz snatching seven games eliminated out. A year later, Wells left the NBA stage.
Wells of the Rockets period
After retiring, Bonch Wells participated in the BIG3 League, and later held basketball training camps, participated in community interactions, and comforted young players and elementary school students, which is completely different from its controversial NBA career, which can be said to be two people on and off the court! Unlike other players who went bankrupt a few years after retiring, Wells lived a bland and happy life!