What is the relationship between Thunderbirds and China Men's Basketball Team?

The Albuquerque Thunderbirds were the champions of the NBA Development League D League (formerly NBDL) last season. After the implementation of the system of training rookie jointly with NBA, they are the rookie training bases of NBA Cavaliers, Suns and Pacers.

(22 wins and 20 losses in the regular season ranked second, 1 ***8 teams).

The coach of the team is michael cooper, a former Lakers player who won five NBA championship rings. He coached the Los Angeles Sparks and won the WNBA championship for two consecutive years.

The players in the development league teams are highly mobile. This year, they added 10 new players through the draft. Because they are champions, their draft round is reverse-order-reverse.

This year, they chose Troy Bell in the first round of the Development League draft 12. Bell, 6'1(1.85m), played for Memphis Grizzlies in 2003-04, playing 6 games, averaging1.8 points per game.

After that, in the second round, they chose Jamal Thomas, a striker with a height of 6-8 1 position. He averaged 22 points and 9 rebounds in minor league USBL.

In the third round, they chose Eddie faubus, a power forward familiar to China fans, with a height of 6- 1 1. During his four years in college, Sam Houston scored an average of 6 points. Last year, he played for Shandong team and once became the blocked shot king.

The fourth round of manual Narvaez

Brandon Robinson's 6-8 striker in the fifth round also played for Thunderbird last year, averaging 8 points and 4 rebounds per game. I have played in Finland, Estonia and other places.

In the sixth round, Wei Siba, who is only 5- 10, averaged 9.6 points in USBL last year and participated in NBA training camps in new york and Boston.

In the seventh round, 6-6 Chris Schumart's defender played for the Development League Arkansas team last season, averaging 6.8 points per game.

Round 8 ismail mohamed

The defender of 6-3 Zach Mosi Marbury in the ninth round, Stephon Marbury's younger brother, joined the Knicks' summer league team in 2004, and has been hanging out in ABA and other leagues in recent years.

10 round big guard Jason McCaughey 6-9, graduated from the famous University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee this year, averaging 3.5 points per game.

In the list of visitors to China, the players who played for the team last season are:

Tony Brand, 6' 5 ",was the main guard last season, averaging 8.8 points and 3.4 assists in 28 minutes.

TJ Cummings, a 6-8 forward, graduated from a prestigious university in UCLA. Last season, he averaged 23 minutes 12 points and 6 rebounds, half starting and half replacing. It is worth mentioning that Subke, a player who plays for the champion team in the regular season, has just been laid off by the Rocket Training Camp recently. He is also averaging 12 points per game.

Marcus Douthit, 6- 10 PF/C, was the main player last season, averaging 28 minutes and 7 rebounds1/kloc-0.

Joe Shipp, a 6-foot-6 shooting guard, was the main player last season, averaging 33 minutes per game and getting 17.5 points and 4 rebounds. He is also the team's scoring king, ranking seventh in the league scoring list. Tierre brown, another major scorer of the team (17.2 points), did not appear in the list.

Brandon Mei Sen, 6-4 defender, substitute, averaging 16 minutes and 6.4 points.

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