Over time, Yi grew up and was gradually fond of playing basketball. He made up his mind to overcome his temporary difficulties and become an excellent basketball player. He was capable of jumping and touching a height of 3. At that time, Yi had been a wonderful center that mastered many skills, like perimeter shooting, hook shooting, reverse dunk and so on. That's why Adidas, the world well-known sports product enterprise, would embrace him. Yi was the only member from China. The trip was an eye-opener for Yi and helped him for the first time set the goal of playing basketball in NBA.
Only playing one season in the league, and spending most of his time on the substitute bench, Yi knows that he has a long way to go. However the last game in the regular season really surprised the audience and made people believe Yi had a bright future. When the game entered overtime, Yi finally got the chance to substitute and grabbed 13 points in five minutes which ensured a victory for his team and the No. Although his performance in the final was rather conservative, Yi did contribute the best moment in the season: stealing the ball in the last several seconds, running, and leaving others behind him, finishing with a monster dunk.
It depends on the most mysterious thing about Yi: his age. The coach of Chinese National Junior Team said Yi was born on Oct 27, , which means he is only 16 and has to wait till to be qualified for entering the NBA draft.
Last summer, he quasi-defected from his home country. And while Wang is settling into a new bachelor pad in L. How cool is that? It was Wang Zhizhi. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. Find out more. We present them here for purely educational purposes.
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Guts shoot lay ups over him because he can't get his arms up fast enough. Wang Zhizhi, a 7-foot-one-inch center from Beijing, was drafted by the Dallas Mavericks in the second round in to become the first Chinese player to play in the NBA.
The son of two former basketball players, he can dunk from all directions, make three point shots and does a sky hook. Wang helped lead his team to six CBA championships. Wang and Yao Ming reportedly do not get along. Wang angered the Chinese basketball federation when he failed to return to China to prepare for the world championships.
He was not allowed to play in the Olympics. Chinese basketball fans hope that he will back at the Olympics. Wang Zhizhi refused to honor his commitment to the national team. He failed to show up at tournaments in the summer and fall of and was kicked off the team. After five mediocre NBA seasons his U.
In , with the Olympics just two years away, he publically apologized to all of China and was reinstated on the national team. Mavericks owner Ross Perot Jr. Ross Perot, personally flew to Beijing to cajole the Beijing team to give him up. Finally in a deal was worked out that gave both the Mavericks and China a piece of him. After scoring six points in his eight minute debut with the Mavericks, Wang said he was happy: "It means that I can score on the N.
In the middle of the season with the Mavericks, he was summoned to China to play in Chinese National Games. After his second season in the NBA, Wang refused to go home and became involved in a complicated lawsuit when he said he wanted to return to China.
Afterwards Clippers games are banned in China. Wang then left the NBA and made a come back in the Chinese leagues. Yi Jianlian, a star power forward with Guangdong Tigers, was picked number 6 in the first round of the NBA draft in after impressing coaches during training sessions in Los Angeles.
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