There have been many strong small forward players in the history of the CBA, such as Ding Yanyuhang, who has won the CBA second consecutive MVP and can impact the NBA, Zhou Peng, the former captain of the men's national basketball team who has won 8 CBA championships, and Li Nan, the former captain of the men's basketball team, and Li Nan, the "Little Li Flying Knife", as well as the "Tiger King" Sun Jun and "Jiaozuo James" Li Gen. But the strongest and most honorable is the veteran Zhu Fangyu of the Guangdong team.
There are many small forward players with good physical talent and strength among the current CBA players, such as Cui Yongxi of this year's NBA draft and Guangzhou team, Zhang Zhenlin of Liaoning team, Zhu Junlong of Zhejiang Guangsha team, Zeng Fanbo of Beijing Shougang men's basketball team, Qi Lin of Xinjiang team, etc. But they are not comparable to Zhu Fangyu at all, even Zhang Zhenlin, who is the strongest in physical talent and strength, is more than a grade behind Zhu Fangyu, although Zhang Zhenlin has only played 4 seasons so far, and he is only 25 years old and still at the peak of his career (or rising), but it is impossible to surpass Zhu Fangyu's achievements.
Zhu Fangyu was born in Liuzhou, Guangxi Province in 1983, entered Guangxi Sports School in 1995 and began to receive professional basketball training, joined the Guangdong Hongyuan Youth Team in 1998, and entered the CBA in the 1999-20 season. In her rookie season, Zhu Fangyu barely got any chances to play, averaging only 2.1 points and 1.2 rebounds per game, while in her second season, she averaged 14.3 points, 5.1 rebounds and 1.2 steals per game, and in her third season, she averaged a career-high 23.8 points, 6.7 rebounds, 1.6 assists and 1.7 steals per game. Zhu Fangyu has won a total of 8 championships, 2 regular season MVPs, 4 finals FMVP, 14 All-Star Game selections and 2 All-Star Game three-point contest championships.
Zhu Fangyu is not only the absolute main force in the Guangdong team, but also one of the main players in the men's national basketball team, he can average 5.3 points per game in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, and has become the main force of the men's national basketball team in the 2006 men's basketball World Championships, averaging 9 points and 1.8 rebounds per game, and shooting 42.8% from three-point range. We all know that in the 2006 Men's Basketball World Championships, Guangdong's Wang Shipeng scored a three-point shot to beat Slovenia, but few fans know that in the last 1 minute of the game, the Chinese team trailed Slovenia by 4 points 70-74, and Zhu Fangyu helped the Chinese team complete a defense after throwing a three-point shot, and then there was Wang Shipeng's three-point kill.
Zhu Fangyu shined at the 2008 Olympics, which was also the peak of his career statistics for the national team, averaging 8 points and 3.3 rebounds per game, 15 points on 3-of-3 three-point shooting against Spain, and excellent performance against United States. In the 2010 match between China and Brazil, the two sides clashed, and Zhu Fangyu punched the front to clear the way for his teammates, which also played Zhu Fangyu's reputation and status. Although he was fined after the game, and we never advocated such a move, his spirit and blood of daring to stand up for his teammates and never flinching are admirable, and it is still very worthy of learning from our current men's basketball players.
In terms of honors, Zhang Zhenlin has won three championships in four years in his career, and won the All-Star Slam Dunk Contest and the All-Star Game Star Ray MVP, which is very good, and compared with Zhu Fangyu, he is only five championships. It is conservatively estimated that Zhang Zhenlin still has ten years of basketball career, and the core players of the Liaoning team, such as Zhao Jiwei, Guo Allen, Han Dejun, Fu Hao, etc., are gradually aging, and it is almost impossible to win five more championships in the next ten years. Maybe he will win the regular season MVP and the finals FMVP in the future, but he definitely can't compare with Zhu Fangyu in terms of quantity.
Although Zhu Fangyu entered the All-Star Game 14 times and won the All-Star Game in 2009, he never won the AMVP of the All-Star Game, which is also the biggest regret of his 18-year basketball career.