Zhou Qi was born on January 16, 1996 in Xinxiang, Henan Province, to a basketball family, whose parents had served as the main players in the local basketball team. Therefore, after Zhou Qi was born, he was a little taller than his peers, and the advantage of height coupled with the influence of his family prompted Zhou Qi to embark on the road of basketball.
When he was a child, Zhou Qi only followed his father out to play basketball, and did not undergo systematic training, but his outstanding height and innate sense of ball for basketball made him discovered by Bole very early.
In 2005, when Zhou Qi was only 9 years old, but his height was already higher than that of children a few years older, the principal of the Fuxin Basketball Team School in Liaoning Province took a look at Zhou Qi in the invitational tournament and decided to take Zhou Qi back to the school for systematic training.
Since then, Zhou Qi has embarked on the principle of leaving his hometown, and this principal has fished out a good seedling and formulated a special training program for Zhou Qi, which has greatly cultivated Zhou Qi's awareness and physical training of basketball. Because Zhou Qi was too young and afraid of affecting his development, he did not give him too heavy tasks and strength to fight.
In life, he cares for Zhou Qi even more, and even opens a small stove for him, and what Zhou Qi wants to eat, the canteen can try its best to satisfy. His initiation coach treated him like his own child, often picking him up from school and taking him home to dinner.
As he grew older, he began to send Zhou Qi to the professional team of the Liaoning team, and was soon selected to the national youth team. In 2010, at the age of fifteen, Zhou Qi became famous in the Turkish U16 International Men's Basketball Invitational Tournament, and under the competition of many European strong teams, Zhou Qi led the team back to win a championship.
At that time, Zhou Qi was also optimistic about becoming the second Yao Ming, and he could go to the NBA in the future and win glory for the country. Zhou Qi has a very high talent and psychological quality, and the defensive choice and position are not like a teenager, which also allowed the coach at the time to see the hope of a future Chinese center.
In the following years, Zhou Qi led the team to the national youth competition, all of which played a very high level, and all kinds of blocks and buckles shocked Zhou Qi's reputation. He was selected for the national team with excellent performances and began to join the CBA, a professional league in China.
After playing for several seasons with Xinjiang, Zhou Qi decided to participate in the 2016 NBA Draft, and Zhou Qi was also successfully selected by the Houston Rockets with the 43rd pick in the second round, which is also the second Chinese player selected since the Rockets selected Yao Ming in 2002. At that time, Zhou Qi had high hopes and even regarded him as the second Yao Ming.
In 2017, Zhou Qi led xinjiang to sweep Guangdong 4:0 in the finals, successfully winning the CBA championship that year, which also greatly increased Zhou Qi's confidence, and then reached a four-year contract with the Rockets in July, officially landed in the NBA, and the big man left home again with the expectations of Chinese fans.
In the NBA career, it is not as smooth as fans think, after entering the Rockets, in regular time, Zhou Qi is difficult to get playing time and playing opportunities, even if he can only play in garbage time, it is difficult to get a stable playing time, plus Zhou Qi in a foreign country, many problems will occur.
But Zhou Qi did not give up his dream, even if it is very difficult, he is still insisting, insisting on hard training, and trying to adapt to the intensity and playing style of the NBA. Of course, the NBA's arena is not what we think, Zhou Qi has repeatedly traveled back and forth with the Rockets' home team and the development league below, and in 2018, Zhou Qi was cut by the Rockets.
In 2019, not only for Zhou Qi but also for the Chinese team, it may be a more nightmare year, the Basketball World Cup held at home in China, the game played at home, this Chinese team led by Li Nan is facing the test of Chinese fans.
In the first game of the group stage, the Chinese team won the opening red lightly, and the second game played Poland, if this game can be won, the Chinese team will directly qualify, but it is in this crucial game, in the last minute, the Chinese team experienced the darkest minute.
The original leading Chinese team, due to the last Zhou Qi's several service mistakes, led to the leading situation by Poland to seize the opportunity of mistakes, directly overtake the score, defeated the Chinese team, and Zhou Qi also became the key player of this game loss, after the game netizens also scolded him as a "Polish center", the subsequent Chinese team did not qualify, and did not qualify for this year's Tokyo Olympic Games.
Then because of contract problems, Zhou Qi can only stay in Xinjiang to continue to play in the CBA, as one of the best center players in China, often play wonderful or highlight moments, but also lead the team into the playoffs, although did not lead the team to the championship, but Zhou Qi's performance is beyond doubt.
This year, Zhou Qi once again became the maker of the topic, due to the contract problem with the Xinjiang team, the Xinjiang team and Zhou Qi have not been able to reach an agreement, and Zhou Qi subsequently announced on social media that he officially sued the Xinjiang team, so that the topic degree was directly full.
Since the Xinjiang team and Zhou Qi did not reach an agreement, Zhou Qi also announced his withdrawal from the new CBA season and officially confronted the Xinjiang team and the CBA league.
When everyone is wondering about Zhou Qi's next step, Zhou Qi officially announced that he will join the Australian League and start another career of his own, and he also hopes that Zhou Qi can continue to maintain his competitive state and lead the Chinese team back to the quarterfinals in the future, and also hope that everyone can be more tolerant of Zhou Qi and cheer for him!