Recently, American basketball fans often see the name of a Chinese teenager in newspapers or sports news.

Especially a week ago, the Chinese teenager beat Kevin Garnett, the best high school student in the United States, and won the Adidas Training Camp Classic MVP, which has left an impression on many basketball fans.

In recent times, more than a dozen NCAA first-level universities, and universities with high cultural requirements, have attracted Zhang Hao, which has also made Zhang Hao appear frequently in the news.

But those news are not as good as this one.

Zhang Hao chose to participate in the NBA draft as a high school student!

For overseas players, they either played in other professional leagues and then participated in the NBA draft, or they studied in college in the United States for a few years and then participated in the draft.

Overseas players came to the United States to participate in the draft directly after high school. This is the first time!

Without considering this, just taking the high school student draft alone made Zhang Hao suffer from the baptism of public opinion like Garnett - overestimating one's own ability!

Yes, even Garnett has such comments in the media.

These days, high school students' drafts are a mistake. Before, there was only Moses Malone, the exception. Other players who successfully entered the NBA as high school students ended up wasting their talents.

The reason why fans and media have this view is that if high school students can be selected by NBA teams, they will definitely be the most talented high school students. They will likely be able to smoothly polish their skills when they go to college, and they will likely be able to successfully enter the NBA and become an excellent combat power, at least that's the case.

But as high school students, they entered the NBA, their physical development is not mature enough, their skills are not good enough, and they have no playing time, and their talents are wasted...

Most people have the same view - it is a wrong decision for high school students to participate in the draft.

Although there are good reviews, there are more negative reviews.

Their generation of high school students runs for players and is still pioneers. Only after they play out can they pave the way for those high school students and rookies in the first few years of the new century.

If you want to say what is good for Zhang Hao to announce this, it is that more people know his name.

The next morning, Zhang Hao was eating breakfast while reading the morning newspaper. Pierce held another newspaper and started a new day of talkative content. This time he was criticizing the news that he had watched Zhang Hao.

For example, Boston TV's evaluation is very sharp, but it makes sense: "Aix-Zhang originally had a bright future. If he went to college to polish his skills for a few years, he could enter the NBA smoothly. He is really talented, but he chose a path that was obviously wrong..."

This is pretty good, and many media have directly turned on the ridicule mode.

The media's reaction was more intense than Zhang Hao imagined, and the public's views were easily influenced by public opinion. The media said that, and they naturally thought it was like this. But in fact, it was really like this. It seems too unreliable for high school students to participate in the talent show. Many high school geniuses who have been in the NCAA are like everyone else.

Does Zhang Hao regret such a situation?

He has no time to regret it. Yesterday afternoon, coach Scott Collins submitted his draft application form to the NBA and passed it. The NBA sent a real-time update of draft registration to each team, which contained the contact information of each player, namely the address and phone number. From last night to now, Zhang Hao has actually received calls from several teams, inviting him to participate in the trial...

Maybe he was just curious, maybe he was casting a wide net, but Zhang Hao didn't have much time to think about it now and would not regret it. When he announced that he would participate in the NBA draft, he told those universities that he would not play in college and would not have basketball scholarships.

In addition to the teenagers' enthusiasm and the experience of applying for college in the past few months, there is another reason for making such a decision - there are so many games in the NBA!

More than 80 games a year!

Since you have decided, let’s take a good try!

It is not easy to be selected. You have to consider which teams to go to for trial training, or consider which teams are really likely to choose him. If some teams do not issue a trial invitation, they will take the initiative to apply for trial training. He doesn't care about anything that is not invited to take the initiative to participate in embarrassment. He wants to maximize the probability.

After breakfast, Zhang Hao began to collect information. April Clark and Pierce were also helping to check the trial time announced after the draft lottery of those teams, check the draft situation of each team in recent years, check the lineup list of each team, and check the expiration contract status of each team this summer...

April Clarke and Pierce never thought there would be so many things to prepare for in the draft... In fact, like Garnett, who participated in the draft, did not have so many preparations.

But Zhang Hao is different. He has a sense of this. In this regard, other high school students participating in the draft cannot compare with him, unless they have an agent after studying in college for a few years and the agent handles these matters.

But he doesn't have an agent now, so he has to do it himself.

These information are not secret information, they are all things that can be found in a little time, but Zhang Hao thinks it will be of great effect.

Check information, answer the phone, make the phone call... In the next few days, Zhang Hao was busy with these things...

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Zhang Hao's participation in the NBA draft not only made him really popular in the American sports circle, but the news has been spread back to China!

Regarding another high school student participating in the draft, the media will definitely have another wave of hype. Garnett has been hype for a long time, and the fans are a little tired of it. Now they can hype the same topic repeatedly. How great is it.

Therefore, many NBA teams were asked at regular press conferences about whether they were interested in Zhang Hao, a high school student. Some teams revealed that they had sent a trial invitation to Zhang Hao.

Several large media really revised the talent show forecast list just for Zhang Hao. This is not a hassle. Instead, adding a name can be used as news and selling newspapers again...

Relying on his performance at Adidas Training Camp, Zhang Hao ranked 58th in the draft ranking given by CNY. He is considered to be likely to be selected in the second round. 29 teams, two round draft picks, and the 58th pick is the lowest pick.

Although many media outlets were derogatory when reporting on Zhang Hao's participation in the talent show as a high school student, the ranking given by CNK was not the highest, but the lower one.

ABC, which is the ranking given by ABC, is 44th, and Sports Illustrated, is 37th. This ranking is the Lakers' second-round draft pick. The Lakers only have this one draft pick this season, and the highest one given is the prediction that they were selected by the Jazz in the 28th pick in the first round.

Major media predict that Zhang Hao may be selected in the second round or even the end of the first round, and this situation seems normal to American basketball fans.

First of all, this year's draft is not considered a draft year, because Duncan refused to enter the NBA early in his sophomore season again, which directly turned this year from a first-class draft year to an ordinary draft year; then, Zhang Hao indeed showed his talent at the Adidas training camp; in the end, almost one-third of the players selected in the second round were directly abandoned every year, and more than half of the second round picks did not get guaranteed contracts.

The draft market is already better than Zhang Hao expected. After all, he has no agent and no professional analyzes it for him, and he is planning to follow the worst possible possibility.

Excellent athleticism, combined with his performance at Adidas training camp, physical condition, and high school performance have made many teams willing to choose him from the first and second rounds to the end of the first round, which means that his draft market is comparable to the NCAA's MOP.

But that's all. Nowadays, more teams want more strength in the lottery zone and even the first round. If their strength reaches the level of O'Neal, Duncan, Grant Hill and others enter the NBA, who would bet on talent? Or is it not that their level does not mean talent?

The word "older rookie" did not exist in this era, but it means it is reliable after studying college.

After such public opinion came out, Zhang Hao felt a little confident, but he still had to plan well, choose the right team to perform in the trial, and do his best to do his best in the trial.
Chapter completed!