According to news on October 8, a few days ago, the 2023 NBA quasi-number one pick, 18-year-old French center Wenbanyama, has sparked heated discussions across the Internet with his outstanding talent. Former men's basketball national player Ma Jian also compared Wenbanyama with the Chinese team's star Zhou Qi on social media.
Victor Wembanyama, born on January 4, 2004 in Nanterre, France, is a French basketball player who serves as center.
18-year-old Wenbanyama is about 2.24 meters tall and has a wingspan of about 2.44 meters. He plays for the Paris Metropolitan 92 team in France.
Recently, Bunyama came to the United States with the Ligue 1 Paris Metropolitan 92 team and played two exhibition games with the Development League Ignite team. The 18-year-old golden boy performed explosively, averaging 36.5 points, 7.5 rebounds and 4.5 blocks per game.
Lakers boss LeBron James was very shocked by the astonishing talent of this quasi-number one pick, and he was full of praise for the 18-year-old youngster.
In response to this, former Chinese men's basketball national player Ma Jian posted on social media: "Zhou Qi's body shape is comparable to that of Wenban Yama, and his touch is also great. If he had a good training system since he was a child and practiced more defenders and forward outside skills, he should be at least a first-round draft pick... "
Zhou Qi is 2.17 meters tall. Like Wenban Yama, he plays the center position and is also relatively thin.
On April 15, 2016, Zhou Qi officially announced his participation in the 2016 NBA Draft. On June 24, Zhou Qi was selected by the Houston Rockets with the 43rd pick in the second round.
On July 7, 2017, the Houston Rockets officially announced the signing of Zhou Qi. Zhou Qi signed a four-year NBA minimum salary contract of US$5.57 million with the Rockets.
But Zhou Qi only represented Rockets and was waived after playing for one season, and then sadly returned to China.
Regarding this, netizens have said, "Guo Ailun's body type is comparable to Curry's . If he practices more three-pointers, he should at least be a first-round draft pick." "If there is such a thing" "This is not taking the disadvantages of yellow people seriously at all." Do you really think that we can fly into the sky and escape from the ground when we are 2 meters tall?" "Ma Jian is about the same size as a magician. If he has practiced passing and three-pointers since he was young, he should be a top five pick in the first round." "My size is comparable to that of Iverson. If I had trained well since childhood, I would have been the number one pick at least." "Zebra is indeed. You can do it." "Zhou Qi: You old horse, you have finally forgotten about Poland, and you pushed me up again..." "How much did you drink?" "Zhou Qi's mentality is not good, let him play, he said he is not ready, give him a chance, it will not work."
