Hu Xuefeng - Stockton in the CBA

If the CBA selects the top 50 superstars in history according to the MLB, I think Hu Xuefeng must occupy a seat.

Born in 1980 in Changshu, Jiangsu Province, Hu Xuefeng is a native of Jiangsu who has strong feelings for the land and has stuck to the team until he retires. He is the leader of Jiangsu basketball and the team soul of the Nangang men's basketball team.

When he retired in 2017, Hu Xuefeng handed over 6374 points, 2629 rebounds, 2492 assists, and 1762 steals. He is the king of assists and steals in the history of the CBA, and you can imagine how he is in the CBA arena. Jazz star Stockton is also the king of assists and steals in the history of the NBA, and Hu Xuefeng's career is so similar to Stockton. He did not win a championship in his career and silently held on to a team until he retired. They are symbols of loyalty, they deserve to be great and worthy of being remembered.

I remember when I was a child, I liked to sit in front of the TV set and watch the game of Jiangsu Nangang on time, when Nangang was today's Kendia, at that time it was still a strong team in the league, and its strength ranked in the forefront of the league. Meng Da, Yi Li, Tang Zhengdong and Hu Xuefeng also led the team to the finals, but unfortunately lost to the powerful Guangdong men's basketball team. At that time, Nangang brought a lot of joy and emotion to our fans, won the sense of identity of countless fans, cheered for Nangang, and cheered for its home team.

Hu Xuefeng has been working diligently in the CBA and silently leading the team forward. When the team is in trouble, he will respond first with three points and breakthroughs; when the team is playing smoothly, he will control the overall situation and lead his teammates to score with one assist after another. Trapped by his height, he had a hard time defending small foreign aides, but he was not discouraged, using keen observation to cooperate with accurate steals, breaking the balls of opponents who were stronger than him again and again. His number of steals could be one of the hardest records in the CBA to break. The four doubles he won are still fresh in his mind, and he did everything he could.

For the Jiangsu team, Hu Xuefeng sacrificed a lot. He had many opportunities to join other teams with a high salary, but he chose to stay in order for the team to be able to complete the replacement of old and new well. For Hu Xuefeng, perhaps his physical talent is not top-notch, he made up for the lack of hard training off the field, he used tireless running to make up for the lack of confrontation on the field, and on the bench he encouraged the players with a hoarse and exhausted cry.

I hope that Hu Xuefeng will be better in the future, and I also hope that one day I can see his record surpassed by future generations. Believing he'd love to see someone break his record, it also means our country's CBA league is improving.