Wang Zhizhi (Chinese: 王治郅; pinyin: Wáng Zhìzhì, pronounced [uǎŋ ʈʂɻ̩̂ʈʂɻ̩̂]; born 8 July 1977) is a Chinese former professional basketball player who was the head coach of the Bayi Rockets, the team with which he spent his domestic career in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). He also played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Dallas Mavericks, Los Angeles Clippers, and Miami Heat, becoming China's first player to compete in the NBA.
and again the next year, but lost both times to the Bayi Rockets. When WangZhizhi left the Bayi Rockets to become the first NBA player from China the following...
who competed in the CBA in the early stages of their careers—including WangZhizhi, Mengke Bateer, Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian, Sun Yue, and Zhou Qi—have also...
would become the second Chinese player to do so later in that year and WangZhizhi, despite being the first-ever Chinese player to join the league, did...
Global GDP by 7%". Goldman Sachs. Retrieved 18 June 2023. Peng, Zhencan; Wang, Zhizhi; Deng, Dong (13 June 2023). "Near-Duplicate Sequence Search at Scale...
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player to come under scrutiny for age discrepancy, as former NBA player WangZhizhi had been listed as being born in both 1977 and 1979. In 2006, a senior...
Puerto Rican Butch Lee in 1978 was the first Latino in the league. WangZhizhi became the first Chinese player in 2001. In 2010, Jeremy Lin became the...
blood that secured the club's first playoff visit in 11 years. Also, WangZhizhi became the first Chinese player to play in the NBA, signing with the...
Tinseltown insider (3)". Chinadaily.com.cn. Retrieved 2022-06-21. Kaihao, Wang (26 July 2015). "Programme offers close-up of big screen's glitterati". Telegraph...
Reuben (September 3, 2022). "Cone sees similarities between Kai Sotto and WangZhizhi". Spin.ph. Archived from the original on September 11, 2022. Retrieved...
was reopened on July 18 by the U.S. Department of the Interior. Born: WangZhizhi, Chinese professional basketball player who was the first Chinese citizen...
in Chinese basketball and produced one of China's first NBA players, WangZhizhi. In 2020, about 625 million people in China were fans of basketball,...
the Mavericks draft the first Chinese player to ever play in the NBA, WangZhizhi, in the 2001 NBA draft. During the 2001–02 NBA season, Nelson was interim...
starting to notice Chinese players after Yao Ming's success (compared to WangZhizhi and Mengke Bateer), and young CBA players such as Yi Jianlian and Sun...
blood that secured the club's first playoff visit in 11 years. Also, WangZhizhi became the first Chinese player to play in the NBA, signing with the...
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