In the first summer league game of the Trail Blazers, the high-profile Choi Yong-hee did not get many opportunities. To say that there are not many opportunities or to put it mildly, the Trailblazers simply did not let Choi Yong-hee play.

At the same time, Johnny Juzan, a Viet Nam player who has been in the NBA for two years, ushered in a historic moment. The Jazz offered him a 4-year contract of 12 million, and Zhu Zan finally succeeded in turning positive.

Even with Anji's means, this contract will inevitably be non-guaranteed for the next few years, but after all, this is the first official contract in Zhu Zan's career, and he can be regarded as gaining a firm foothold in the NBA.

For the past two seasons, Juzan has been on a two-way contract with the Jazz. He was undrafted in 2022 and earned a two-way contract with the Jazz for his stellar summer league performances. also benefited from the fact that the Jazz team has no record requirements, and Zhu Zan has not had many opportunities.

He played 18 games in his first season, averaging 4.8 points and 2.2 rebounds per game, and the following year he was awarded a two-way contract through his summer league performances, and then he played in 20 games in his second season, including five starts, mostly from the Jazz rotation at the end of the season.

Juzan seized the few opportunities to show himself, playing 33 minutes against the Warriors on April 8, scoring 27 points on 9-of-12 shooting, including 7-of-8 three-pointers and 2-of-3 free throws. In the remaining games, Zhu Zan also scored in double figures in two games, showing good shooting ability.

In his second season, Juzan averaged 7.2 points per game and shot 41.6 percent from three-point range. He didn't lag on the defensive end and had a steady shooting ability on the offensive end, so he finally got a permanent contract this summer.

I have been paying attention to this player for a long time, after all, as the first Viet Nam NBA player, he is likely to be one of our opponents in Asia in the future. His mother is Viet Nam, and Juzan made a name for himself in the United States in high school.

Juzan first went to Kentucky when choosing a college school, but didn't get many opportunities in his freshman year, averaging only 2.9 points and 1.9 assists per game. So in his sophomore year, Zhu Zan transferred to UCLA, which is closer to home, and the decision to transfer proved to be the right one.

In the 20-21 season, the team's main season was reimbursed. Juzan was given the opportunity to take on the team's scoring duties, averaging 16.0 points, 4.1 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game. In March Madness, Juzan's performance was even more outstanding, scoring 20+ 4 times in 6 games, averaging 22.8 points and 4.3 rebounds per game, and was selected to the Crazy Three Best Team.

In the semifinals of the 2021 crazy three, you may still have an impression of Suggs's ultra-long three points. Before he made the kill, it was Juzan's equalizer. This sense of despair from heaven to hell will never be forgotten by Zhu Zan for the rest of his life.

With the blessing of the crazy three performances, Zhu Zan's market once entered the first round, but Zhu Zan's performance was very bad in the subsequent joint trial, which made him quickly fall to the second round of the market. In the end, Zhu Zan decided to return to UCLA to play for another year, and people's decisions cannot always be right, and this return to school made Zhu Zan's market worse.

In his junior year, he averaged 15.6 points and 4.7 rebounds per game, and his scoring did not rise but declined. In 2022, he ran again and ended up in a losing election.

Zhu Zan, who averaged more than a dozen points per game in the NCAA, also took a two-way contract in the NBA for two years before finally becoming a regular. And Choi Yong-hee's goal after losing the election is also very clear, to get a two-way contract and fight for the opportunity to stay first.

Choi Young-hee said, "If the opportunity in the Trail Blazers doesn't give me, then I'll wait for something else." But first of all, I have to play the game well. "In the previous teaching game with the Chinese men's basketball team, Cui Yongxi got some opportunities, and he shot 3 three-pointers and performed well.

It's not that Xiao Cui doesn't have a chance to stay, his defense is fundamental, and if he can maintain a stable three-point efficiency, he may not be able to survive in the NBA. But at the very least, let him prove himself first.