He was born in a basketball family, his father Xu Chenghui is a member of the Guangxi men's basketball team, his mother Chen Guofeng is a member of the Guangxi women's basketball team, and his three cousins are all basketball players, one plays in the Bayi women's basketball team, one plays in the Guangdong women's basketball team, and the other plays in the Guangxi women's basketball team.
Nurtured by the family environment, he also became a professional basketball player, played for the Bayi team for many years, and was selected for the Chinese men's basketball training team twice.
He was banned for 3 games + fined 100,000 yuan for elbowing Liao Sanning, a fellow villager in Guangxi, causing the latter to suffer a facial fracture, and once pulled Li Tianrong down when he was scrambling for rebounds, causing his head to hit the ground, and was suspended for 6 games and fined 200,000 yuan for violating the spirit of sportsmanship, and was also suspended for two games + fined 150,000 yuan for deliberately kicking foreign aid Trimble.
He only played 39 minutes in the playoffs this year, but he committed eight fouls and one physical foul. In the fourth game between the Guangsha team and the Guangdong team, he knocked down 5 Guangdong players by himself, Zhang Mingchi's eyes were beaten into giant pandas, and Ren Junfei was directly carried out on a stretcher.
Today, he is a notorious villain in the CBA, but 10 years ago, his reputation was very different from what it is now. He was once regarded as the most balanced pure center on both offensive and defensive ends in China in 2014, and he was very solid in terms of confrontation ability, offensive aggressiveness, defensive ferocity, blocking, mid-range shooting, and back-to-back skills. Many people are optimistic that he will become another main center of the Chinese men's basketball team after Battle, Wang Zhizhi and Yao Ming.
He began to receive professional basketball training when he was 6 years old, and at the age of 11, he and his cousin went to the Bayi team for a tryout. However, two years later, he knocked on the door of the Bayi team and became a member of the Bayi team, he grew rapidly under the training system of the Bayi team, and was selected for the second national youth team at the age of 17 to participate in the 15th China-Japan-Korea Youth Exchange Competition.
In 2008, at the age of 18, he was officially promoted to the Bayi team, and he played a lot of opportunities in his rookie season, playing 41 games, including 17 starts, averaging 6.1 points and 3.6 rebounds per game, shooting 50.3% from the field, and his performance was decent. In his second season, he almost doubled his stats, but unfortunately injuries followed, and he did not perform well in his third season.
But since the fourth season, he has averaged double-doubles per game for many consecutive seasons, and contributed 14.3 points per game in his peak season, during which he was also elected as a block king once, an All-Star once, and a Chinese men's basketball training team twice, but he was not selected for the final list both times and failed to wear the national team jersey to play for the country, but he is still expected to be high.
However, since 2017, his form has declined year by year, and in 2018, he suffered a comminuted fracture of his finger and was reimbursed for the season, which made his already poor condition worse, and his average data once fell to 4 points and 4.4 rebounds per game, and he has been completely reduced to a marginal player.
After the Bayi team was disbanded, he regained his form after joining the Guangsha team and became a qualified substitute center, but his reputation became worse and worse during the Guangsha period. As he gets older, his movement speed becomes slower and slower, his movements become more and more stiff, whether it is offensive or defensive, or helping his teammates to cover, he will use many hidden small moves, and when he is in a hurry, he will also use some non-basketball moves, making opponents miserable.
Even though he has been officially banned for 11 games and fined 450,000 yuan, he is still unrepentant, and his playing action is still very big, maybe he is not bad by nature, but at the age of 33, his efficiency at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends has fallen off a cliff, and he must find ways to be a "useful" person to the team, otherwise there will be no team to want him.