The day before yesterday, the Warriors officially announced the roster of players for this summer league. In addition to Kuminga, Moody Wiseman, and the two rookies selected this year, Santos and Rollins, there is also one from our Chinese Men's Basketball Team A player who is no longer familiar is also selected for the Warriors list this time. He is the defender from Japan --- Baba Yudai.
Baba Xiongda is 27 years old this year and currently plays for Southeast Melbourne United in the Australian NBL League. He has played 7 games with Melbourne United this season, averaging 3.9 points, 1.6 rebounds, 0.7 assists, 0.4 steals, 1.3 turnovers and 1.7 fouls in 18.9 minutes per game.
He participated in the NBA draft in 2017. Unfortunately, no team selected him. But he did not give up. In the summer of 2019, he announced that he would represent the Mavericks in the summer league. In the summer league, he averaged 12 minutes per game, scoring 4 points, 2.3 rebounds, 0.3 assists and 0.8 steals.
His performance in the summer league and training camp successfully impressed the Mavericks management, so they announced a contract with him in September of that year. However, the good times did not last long. In October, the Mavericks announced that they would lay off the horse farm.
This time, it is the second time that Baba Yudai plays in the summer league. Compared with before, his speaking and communication skills have been significantly improved. A reporter asked why Baba chose to play in the summer league again after three years. Said: "I am the Japanese League Champion and the Australian League Champion. There is nothing worth fighting for except NBA."
Although Baba Yudai can represent the Warriors in the summer league partly because of sponsors (Japan's Rakuten is the Warriors Sponsor of the team), but his spirit of fighting for his dreams is worth learning from each of us.
Especially in the current Chinese men's basketball team, if there are more players like the horse farm who are fighting for their dreams, I believe The level of the Chinese men's basketball team will make a qualitative leap, so we need to be less sarcastic and more encouraging to Zeng Fanbo , Zhang Zhenlin and other young men who are working hard outside!
As for whether the racecourse Xiongda can succeed in pursuing his dream this time, it depends on his performance in this summer league...
