Born in 1989, the age of thirty, this is the golden age of professional basketball players, and the basketball players of this period are the most technical and experienced in the game. If the devastating injury did not find him, perhaps he is still active in the domestic basketball league, and may even be the pillar and façade of Chinese basketball. He is Xu Yong, a basketball genius who was ruined by injuries, a former star of hope in Chinese basketball!
His parents were once basketball players, Xu Yong was born in a family with a strong basketball atmosphere, inherited his parents' good basketball genes and his parents' basketball influence on him from childhood, so that he has formed an indissoluble relationship with basketball since he was a child. The love of basketball coupled with the professional basketball guidance of his parents and the influence of foreign NBA on Xu Yong makes his sense of ball on the court particularly good, and he likes to dunk, learn Carter, and discipline ratio since he was a child, and use his talents to study basketball. Just 16 years and 3 months old, he became the main player of the U18 national team.
In 2005, Xu Yong contacted a school in the United States through personal relations, trained while studying, and stayed in the United States for a year. During this period, Xu Yong met many people in the American basketball circle, including NBA celebrity Bill Russell, and was even evaluated by Bill Russell as having a physical fitness comparable to Steve. Francis.
December 27, 2006 was Xu Yong's first CBA game with 8 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists. Exploding physical fitness, hard work, and pleasing dunks made him start to make a name for himself on the field. In the CBA All-Star Dunk Contest, a blockbuster dunk king, this year Xu Yong's height grew to 2.06 meters.
In the second season of the CBA, the 18-year-old Xu Yong averaged 18.2 points, 6.3 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 1.4 steals per game. At the end of the season, Xu Yong was also successfully selected for the Chinese men's basketball training team preparing for the Beijing Olympic Games, and he was also the youngest player in this roster, 18 days younger than Chen Jianghua at the time.
Just when people were looking forward to this talented basketball teenager to bring more wonderful games to the fans, the injury was "invariably coming". In mid-May 2008, Xu Yong was diagnosed with "malignant central osteosarcoma of the spine", and was forced to end his short basketball career, bidding farewell to the field and slowly fading out of people's vision. Later, Xu Yong returned to the public eye as a basketball commentator, but many young fans did not know much about the slightly blessed commentator. Finally, I would like to say that for people who love basketball, basketball blood will always flow in his blood!