The high-profile 2024 CBA draft officially came to an end this morning, the Shandong high-speed men's basketball team with the champion sign, chose Xie Zhijie, a guard from Beijing Sports University, and the Ningbo men's basketball team won the forward Wang Fanyi of Ningbo University with a list of eyes, and Wu Chao, who was selected in the first round, belonged to the Jiangsu men's basketball team.
Under the vigorous reform measures of Yao Ming, chairman of the Basketball Association, more and more college players have emerged in the draft of the CBA league, such as Wang Lanyan, Chen Guohao and others, all of whom have made a name for themselves in the domestic basketball world through the CUBA league, and then entered the CBA in the draft and achieved good performance. As early as 2022, Xie Zhijie was selected for the second team training camp of the Chinese men's basketball team, and was also invited to participate in the CBA All-Star Star Game last year. In the CUBAL Northeast Division, Xie Zhijie won the regional assist king and the regional steal king, and in the national 32-8 knockout round, Xie Zhijie won the regional rebounding king and assist king.
In this draft meeting, the people who received the most attention from netizens were Yang Wenxue and Yang Zheng, two popular streetball players on the Internet. Interestingly, both players were finally selected by the Sichuan men's basketball team, of which Yang Wenxue was selected at the 16th pick and Yang Zheng was selected at the 21st pick. Born in 1999, Yang Wenxue is 25 years old this year, and he is considered an older rookie in the CBA draft, and the Shaanxi Xinda men's basketball team, which has been playing in the NBL, won the title of Most Valuable Player in the regular season of the 2022 National Men's Basketball League in 2023, and it is reasonable that he was selected.
What really makes netizens unacceptable is the 31-year-old Internet celebrity street player Yang Zheng, who was selected by the Sichuan men's basketball team in the 21st pick. Yang Zheng has millions of fans on the Internet short video platform, belongs to the top street player, his personal income is not lower than most professional players in the CBA league, but at the age of 31, he still chooses to participate in the CBA draft, which also proves that Yang Zheng is chasing his inner basketball dream.
It's just that from the perspective of the professional league, it is a sadness that a 31-year-old player can still be selected in the draft, which represents the lack of domestic youth basketball talents at this stage, and also represents the contempt and child's play of some professional clubs when dealing with the draft.
In this draft meeting, the Liaoning men's basketball team did not make any choice, and the Liaoning men's basketball team, which holds the 20th pick, originally hoped to win the talented forward Sun Xiangxiang from the Liaoning Youth Team, but unfortunately in the twelfth pick, Sun Xiangxiang was selected by the Qingdao men's basketball team in advance. As one of the first batch of players in the basketball elite program, Sun Xiangxiang also went to Montverde High School in United States to train and study, but because he never integrated into the team, Sun Xiangxiang chose to return to China after going around and around for a few years in United States and joined the Liaoning men's basketball youth team.
At today's draft, the Liaoning men's basketball team did not choose to abstain at first, and the club still hoped to win Sun Xiangxiang, but due to the interception of the Qingdao men's basketball team, the Liaoning men's basketball team finally failed to "pick up the leaks". Qingdao men's basketball team, under the guidance of Liu Weiwei, also has a unique way in cultivating young players, I believe that Sun Xiangxiang will also be able to achieve good development after joining the Qingdao men's basketball team!