As a basketball player, there is no doubt that the biggest dream must be to enter the NBA, after all, the NBA is the highest level of basketball in the world, and the players here are also the top basketball talents in the world. After all, there is no player in the Chinese men's basketball team who can enter the NBA, although they are all top players in the CBA, which shows the huge gap. And it's even harder to get into the NBA and be and play at an All-Star level. Up to now, among the many yellow-skinned Asian NBA players, only Yao Ming has been selected as an NBA All-Star, and Yao Ming is a once-in-a-century basketball talent, and his height of 2.26 meters is also a phenomenon in the entire history of the NBA.
Recently, just when everyone wanted to impact the NBA, Yuta Watanabe of the Suns took the initiative to choose to quit the NBA, Yuta Watanabe was the NBA draft in 2018, but with his desperate efforts, he successfully gained a foothold in the NBA, and played in the NBA for six years, this season he played an average of about 13 minutes per game in the Suns, and was able to contribute 3.4 points and 1.6 rebounds. For his decision, the core of the Suns Durant also expressed regret, Durant said: Watanabe played very hard in every round, his jump shot looked good, and his basic skills were perfect. I'm happy for him, he's found his role. Durant then added: "He's the type of player who wants a lot of teams if they don't keep him. ”
In fact, it is not much, in the first two years of his career, he took a two-way contract, with an annual salary of only $150,000, and finally signed a two-year contract with the Suns for 5 million, but he gave up 2.6 million in the last year, so he earned a total of $4.802 million in his 6-year NBA career. And our player Zhou Qi got a four-year contract of $5.565 million in the NBA, but Zhou Qi was cut in the second season and earned only $1.32 million in one and a half seasons, and Yuta Watanabe's NBA salary is nearly 4 times that of Zhou Qi.
As for why Yuta Watanabe suddenly announced his departure, he said that he wanted more pure basketball, and he suffered too much in his 20s and wanted to make up for his teenage years in his 30s. In fact, he just doesn't want to be a bench in the NBA, he wants to have enough playing time in his league. In addition, it is reported that Yuta Watanabe left the NBA for other reasons, that is, his parents are old and he wants to be with them, and his wife is 30 years old and is about to give birth, and he wants to spend more time with his family.
Yuta Watanabe's wife's name is Akiko Kuji, who was previously an actor and a host for a while, and the two met and fell in love on a show that year, and then got married. Later, after Watanabe came to the NBA, his wife quit her job and has been following Yuta Watanabe, encouraging her husband and being the woman behind Yuta Watanabe. This time Yuta Watanabe left the NBA, the local media believe that Yuta Watanabe's commercial value will be further enhanced, and the income will definitely be much higher than when he was in the NBA. What do you think about this?