In recent times, basketball fans in the United States have often seen 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, to win the MVP of the Adidas Training Camp Classic, which has already left an impression on many basketball fans.

Recently, more than a dozen NCAA Division I universities and universities with high cultural requirements have recruited Zhang Hao, and Zhang Hao has often appeared in the news.

But none of those news can compare to this news.

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

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

This is the first time that an overseas player has come to the United States to participate in the draft directly after finishing high school!

Without considering this, the high school draft alone made Zhang Hao suffer the same baptism of public opinion as Garnett - beyond his means!

Yes, even Garnett has such an assessment in the media.

This year, the high school draft was a mistake, and there was only one exception to Moses Malone, and other players who managed to enter the NBA as high school students ended up wasting their talent.

The reason why fans and the media have such an opinion is because as a high school student, if they can be selected by the NBA team, they are definitely the most talented high school students, and they have a high probability of successfully polishing their skills when they go to college, and there is a high probability that they can successfully enter the NBA to become an excellent instant combat force, at least.

But they enter the NBA as high school students, their bodies are not mature enough, their skills are not good enough, and then they don't play time, and then their talent is wasted......

The vast majority of people agree that high school students entering the draft are the wrong decision.

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

The high school players of their generation are still the pioneers, and they can pave the way for those high school rookies in the first few years of the new century.

If there is any benefit to Zhang Hao in announcing this matter, it is that more people know his name.

The next morning, Zhang Hao was reading the morning newspaper while eating breakfast, and Pierce took another newspaper and started a new day's chatterbox, this time he was attacking the news that read Zhang Hao.

For example, Boston TV's evaluation is very sharp, but it is very reasonable: "Aix Chang originally had a bright future, if he went to college to hone his skills for a few years, he could enter the NBA smoothly, he was really talented, but he chose a clearly wrong path......"

This is all a nice thing to say, and many media directly turn on the ridicule mode.

The reaction of the media is more intense than Zhang Hao imagined, and the opinions of the masses are easily influenced by public opinion, the media say that, they naturally think that is it, and in fact, this is really the case, high school students participating in the draft look too unreliable, and many high school geniuses are unknown to everyone when they reach the NCAA.

Does Zhang Hao regret such a situation?

He has no time to regret it, yesterday afternoon, after Coach Scott Collins submitted his draft application form to the NBA and passed, the NBA sent a real-time update of the draft registration to each team, which has the contact information of each player, that is, the address and phone number......

Maybe it's just curiosity, maybe it's casting a wide net, but Zhang Hao doesn't have much time to think about it now and not regret it, when he announced his participation in the NBA draft, it was tantamount to telling those colleges that he wouldn't go to college to play and didn't want a basketball scholarship.

In addition to the momentum of young people and the experience of applying to colleges in the past few months, there is another reason for making such a decision - there are many games in the NBA!

More than 80 games a year!

Now that it's all decided, let's give it a good go!

It's not easy to be selected, you have to think about which teams you want to try out, or in other words, consider which teams are really likely to choose him, if some teams don't send out an invitation to tryout, he takes the initiative to apply for a trial, and he doesn't care if he doesn't get invited to take the initiative to participate in this kind of shame, he wants to maximize the probability.

After breakfast, Zhang Hao began to gather information, and Aprile Clark and Pierce were also helping, checking the trial times announced after the draft draw of those teams, checking the drafts of each team in recent years, checking the roster list of each team, and checking the expiration of each team's contract this summer......

April-Clark and Pierce had no idea that the draft would have so much to prepare...... In fact, like Garnett's participation in the draft, there is not so much preparation.

But Zhang Hao is different, he has the awareness of this, in this regard, other high school students participating in the draft can't compare with him, unless there is an agent after a few years of college, and the agent will handle these things.

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

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

Checking information, answering the phone, making phone calls...... 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 was transmitted back to China!

Regarding the fact that another high school student is participating in the draft, the media will definitely have to hype it again, Garnett has been hyped for a long time, and the fans are a little tired, and now they can repeatedly fry the same topic, how good.

As a result, many NBA teams were asked at the regular press conference whether they were interested in Zhang Hao, a high school student, and some teams revealed that they had sent Zhang Hao a trial invitation.

Several large media really re-revised the draft prediction list for Zhang Hao, which is not a troublesome thing, but you can add a name to sell the newspaper as news again......

Relying on his performance in the Adidas training camp, Zhang Hao ranked 58th in the draft ranking given by CNN, and was considered likely to be selected at the end of the second round, 29 teams, two drafts, and the 58th pick was the lowest pick.

Although when reporting that Zhang Hao participated in the draft as a high school student, many media used derogatory wording, but the ranking given by American cable TV stations was not the highest, but the lower batch.

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

Major media have predicted that Zhang Hao may be selected at the end of the second round or even the first round, and this situation is normal in the eyes of American basketball fans.

First of all, this year's draft is not a draft year, because Duncan's sophomore season once again refused to enter the NBA early, directly making this year from a first-class draft year to an ordinary draft year; Then, Zhang Hao really showed his talent in the Adidas training camp; Finally, almost one-third of the players selected in the second round are dropped directly every year, and more than half of the second-round picks are not guaranteed contracts.

The draft market has been better than Zhang Hao expected, after all, he has no agent, no professional person to analyze him, and he is planning for the worst.

His athleticism, combined with his performance in Adidas training camp, physical fitness, and high school performance, have made several teams willing to draft him from the middle of the second round to the end of the first round, which means that his draft market is already on par with the NCAA MOP.

But that's just it, more teams in the lottery and even the first round more want to be able to use the strength right away, if the strength reaches the level of O'Neal, Duncan, Grant Hill and others into the NBA, who will bet on talent? Or does it mean that they have that level of talent?

The term "older rookie" does not exist in this era, but it is reliable to finish college.

After such public opinion came out, Zhang Hao had a little bottom in his heart, but he still had to plan well, choose the team for the trial, and do his best in the trial.

He knows that he has a second-round market, relying on the performance of the McDonald's Slam Dunk Contest and Adidas training camp, and it depends on the performance of the trial to really make the team decide to choose him.