NBA, Yao Ming is back!

Chapter 48 I think he has a chance to be a first-round star.

Unfortunately, the CBA did not have a Finals MVP award at that time; that was in the 1999-2000 season.

Yes, if this is Yao Ming's last CBA season, then he will not have a chance to win the CBA Finals MVP.

When I win the CBA championship, I can joke that I can win an award that even Yao Ming couldn't get.

Or to put it another way, the CBA Finals MVP is something even Yao Ming couldn't achieve.

However, no one expected that the Bayi First Team would collapse so quickly.

The defeat was too decisive.

The so-called "dimensional reduction attack" wasn't an exaggeration for the two scouts, because NBA players are different from those here; many players have played various positions since childhood. Therefore, before playing in the NBA, before proving that these abilities are applicable there...

Even their so-called blue-collar, rough-around-the-edges center.

In the leagues that follow, they all transform into super all-around players.

In their eyes, the CBA is a lower-level league.

This proves that Yao Ming's development model differs from that of traditional Eastern players.

From a young age, we have focused on developing ball control skills.

This is an advantage that other Eastern players do not have.

But what they are really more concerned about is this one.

The hit rate is too high.

They knew that in leagues like these, even European leagues, players going to the NBA would definitely see their stats plummet.

Therefore, it would be best to make a sharp drop based on the already high data.

If your stats aren't great to begin with, then if they plummet, won't you just lose everything?

Now, diving can at least reach a certain height, but no matter what, that height is still too high.

With such a shooting percentage, even if you went to the NBA...

Both players believe they can at least be considered decent, efficient centers.

However, they won't make a definitive judgment so quickly. As a qualified scout, a scout report isn't something to be written casually; it's usually divided into several parts.

This is only the first phase of what's called "Dominating the Domestic League," which refers to this player's performance in the local league.

If it's very good, then I'll recommend you to join various training camps.

Only here can you have the opportunity to compete with all sorts of promising newcomers in America.

Only by fighting them at that time can you see what your skill level is.

Last time, Yao Ming also dominated Tyson Chandler in the training camp. This center, who was destined to enter the NBA, gave him absolute confidence and raised his status in the eyes of these scouts by a lot.

Because in their minds, you can only be considered capable if you crush what they consider promising newcomers in the US.

Otherwise, what kind of performance or statistics do you have in your league?

They're all just stepping stones.

That's it.

But now they believe Yao Ming has the strength of a first-round pick, although he may be at the end of the first round. However, if he can perform well in the training camp, he can compete with some of the American players they admire.

They still have the ability to improve their ranking.

After all, Yao Ming himself improved his draft position by defeating his opponents in the training camp one by one. A high draft position is not easy to obtain.

Especially considering that Asia had never previously supplied any reliable star players to the NBA.

It will subconsciously make people question it.

Even under these circumstances, they still believe that Yao Ming should be able to be selected in the first round.

We'll have to wait and see how he performs in the training camp.

Historically, it was after Yao Ming finished training camp that Magic assistant coach Goren Wilkes said Yao Ming could play in the NBA.

After personally coaching Yao Ming, Portland Trail Blazers assistant head coach Titus Rooks requested to transfer Yao Ming and offered a transfer fee of $100 million.

Not to be outdone, Washington Wizards' John Thompson immediately offered to sign Yao Ming for a three-year contract with a transfer fee of $100 million per year.

But in reality, they all treated Yao Ming as a player who couldn't be drafted high.

The players who truly become high draft picks are those who improve as they play in training camps.

In particular, his dominant performance against Tyson Chandler finally convinced the Rockets' general manager to make a decision despite opposition.

"So, which Nike training camp should we send him to first?" Don Casey suggested. "How about sending him to Paris to check it out?"

"How about we play against those international players?"

"Shall we test the waters first?"

After watching the video, the two concluded that Yao Ming was a shoo-in for the NBA, but how well he would perform and his level among his peers would have to be tested at the training camp.

This is the most intuitive comparison.

As for why it's called the Nike training camp, it's because the NBA league can now almost be called the Nike league.

In the 80s, Nike gambled on Jordan and won, with the Air Jordan series directly defining basketball trends. By the 90s, Jordan had won two three-peats, becoming a legendary figure in basketball, and Nike directly seized control of the discourse on "orthodox basketball."

Start here.

Almost all players, teenagers, fans, and aesthetics in the league have been assimilated by Nike.

Secondly, and this is what I'll be discussing now, Nike had access to the world's top youth basketball selection system in the 1990s.

Therefore, talented high school students and international young players from all over the United States and even the world have to fight tooth and nail to get into Nike's camp.

Without entering the Nike system, you won't get scout exposure or national rankings, and you're destined to have few good draft prospects.

Yao Ming and Liu Wei were invited to participate in 97, which was essentially Nike's way of getting a sneak peek at potential international stars.

Meanwhile, countless star players have participated in Nike's training system, such as Kobe Bryant, who joined the NBA this year.

There's also Garnett, the genius high school student who joined earlier.

And future stars like Eddie Curry, Chandler, and McGrady—almost all of them, you can name, have participated in Nike training camps.

You could even call Nike's training camp the NBA youth training system.

In other words, Nike has secured the NBA's future star pool from high school onwards.

So calling it the Nike Alliance isn't a problem.

There are still a few brands that can compete with him now, but once the competition reaches the 21st century, he will truly be the only dominant player, and no one will be able to get in.

The four most famous Nike training camps now are—

Nike Paris European Camp.

Nike Indiana Global Camp.

Michael Jordan Training Camp.

And the National High School Camp.

Yao Ming was involved in almost everything in his previous life.

He even went there more than once over several years.

This is the first real step in thoroughly scouting international players.

After all, those who can come are the young champions of their respective alliances.

They mingled together and used ingenious methods to determine who was superior.

That's definitely a good idea.

And historically, Yao Ming was indeed the first person to participate in this Nike Paris training camp.