Before today's draft results were officially released, some fans shared Choi Yong-hee's prospects this time. To sum it up in one sentence: whether you are selected or not, it cannot be simply defined as success or failure.
Because, even if he is selected, in the end, Choi Yong-hee's identity is a second-round show. This means that he does not have a guaranteed contract. Of course, there are also teams that directly offer guaranteed contracts to second-round picks. For example, the "second-round pick" the year before last was Andrew Nembhard, who was signed at No. 31, when Pacers directly offered him a four-year $8.4 million contract, with an annual salary higher than that of the first round pick, and even broke the NBA record. However, this situation is not "universal". Because, this requires the team to be particularly optimistic, and it also needs to be really potential. Obviously, Choi Yong-hee does not have either of these things.
Then there are two relatively realistic scenarios left. First, two-way contracts. If a team stays on the fence about a second-round pick or wants to maintain the flexibility of the 15-man guaranteed contract roster, most teams will most likely offer a two-way contract to the second-round pick. In the case of Pacers, last year, Isaiah Wong (No. 55 pick) and Oscar Tshiebwe (undrafted) both ended up with two-way contracts. For Choi Yong-hee, this is the most desirable outcome. However, in reality, there are still relatively big variables, because how long this contract can exist, including whether he will have to go back and forth between the NBA and the G League, or even most of the time in the G League, these are very difficult to say.
Second, the Exhibit-10 contract. This is the so-called "temporary contract" or "training camp contract". This is an offer from most teams that have been drafted to play in summer league and even train with the team all the way through preseason camp in October. The team will observe them for three months, and then decide before the start of the season after the training camp: Exhibit10 will be converted to a two-way contract; Exhbiit10 to G-league contract. Decentralized Affiliated Fort Wayne Madman Tempering throughout the year. If you stay there for 60 days, you can get between $5,000 and $50,000. Zeng Fanbo signed an Exhibit-10 contract that year (while Andrew Nembhard received a four-year guarantee in the same class), and after the Pacers finished the summer league, he decided to return to Beijing to develop, because of the conflict with the CBA season roster registration time, so he also decided not to play in the NBA preseason training camp early.
For Choi Yong-hee, this possibility is the greatest. Because there is a high probability that he will lose the election, the fans who know know it. To put it bluntly, the NBA is not within the reach of current Chinese men's basketball players. At least they need to continue their high-intensity evolution for a moment of hope. This is limited to Choi Yong-hee and Yang Hansen, who are both talented and very young "potential stocks". The rest of the players don't have to think about it. After this analysis, a relatively clear conclusion can be drawn: whether Cui Yongxi can be elected or not this time does not mean anything. It can only be said that it is the beginning of another stage.
Therefore, there are no regrets about losing the election. Moreover, real fans do not appreciate Choi Yong-hee's draft results this time, but the decision he made. As he himself said, he doesn't want to stay in the "little box" of the CBA all the time. Because everyone has seen what it has been like for so many years. It's true that there is no role in improving, and no matter how good a player is, he is stumbling and degrading here. The main thing is that these players don't feel anything wrong yet. Although Cui Yongxi has not been in the league for a long time, he just caught up with the lowest period of the Chinese men's basketball team. He was deeply touched by this.
He doesn't want to be like those players who see his future at a glance. So, he chose to come out this summer. If Yang Hansen and Zeng Fanbo also have this ambition, including the younger players in the future. The Chinese men's basketball team does not dare to say that it can return to the top of Asia, at least it will slowly get better. Applaud Choi Yong-hee, the "lonely brave"!