Nowadays, CBA gravity centers are scarce, so that Su Wei, Tang Zhengdong, and Zhang Songtao can easily get an annual salary of 2 million to 3 million, while Han Dejun, as the first local center, has received an annual salary of 5 million yuan and joined the system of generous treatment. Although the Chinese men's basketball team currently has good interior players such as Wang Zhelin, Zhou Qi, Hu Jinqiu, zou Yuchen, etc., they cannot form a dominant force under the basket. The Chinese men's basketball team has always been rich in high-quality centers, and Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi and Battle are known as the three major centers of the Chinese men's basketball team. But if you look further ahead, there is another super center in the history of the Chinese men's basketball team that is easy to overlook, he is Shan Tao!
Shan Tao is 5 years older than Bartle, and the bus was only his little brother at that time. As the main center of the 94 golden generation of the Chinese men's basketball team, Shan Tao's ability is beyond doubt. Helped the Chinese men's basketball team sweep through Asia and reached the quarterfinals at the 1994 World Championships. With a height of 2 meters and 16 meters and a weight of 125 kilograms, Shan Tao's physical fitness is outstanding. Although he is huge, Shan Tao's movement speed is not slow, coupled with the advantages in height and strength, he is the existence of a Big Mac under the basket! Coupled with Shan Tao's solid low-back singles ability, the turnaround jump shot is his unique skill, and he also has a stable half-intercepted basket, and Shan Tao at the offensive end is almost insoluble in Asia. Today's gravity-type center, more playing the role of an inner meat shield, obviously cannot be compared with Shan Tao.
Nowadays, in the CBA internal line, Han Dejun, who is somewhat similar to Shan Tao, can only be called "the poor version of Shan Tao"! Although Han Dejun's height, weight, strength, and speed are almost the same as Shan Tao. But in the low-post attack and defense, he still has a big gap with Shan Tao. The simplest embodiment is that Han Dejun is powerless when he meets Haddadi in the CBA, and the inside line is completely exploded! And when your Shan Tao, in Asia is completely easy to abuse. Even when he comes to the national arena, he can still compete with the big white bears in Europe and the United States. There is no doubt that if the peak of Shan Tao is placed in today's CBA, it will be easy to get tens of millions of annual salaries!
It is worth mentioning that Shan Tao is still the evergreen tree of the CBA, until 2009, he has been 39 years old and chose to retire. Shan Tao can be described as a vagabond of the CBA, and has played for many teams such as Beijing Men's Basketball Team, Jijun Men's Basketball Team, Shenzhen Runxun, Beijing Aoshen, Xinjiang Guanghui, Dongguan New Century, Shanxi Zhongyu, Shandong Gold and so on. What was the existence of Shan Tao at its peak? He is said to have received an invitation from the Phoenix Suns, but was unable to make the trip for some reason. Today's Gravity-type inner line of the Chinese men's basketball team is not missing height and weight, but solid basic skills!