Join MGI to play in the top league! Another male basketball player who doesn’t play in the CBA!

American high school Veritas Academy officially announced that China's 18-year-old star Zhang Boyuan has joined. This means that he will not play CBA games for the time being. There were reports at the beginning of the month that Zhang Boyuan, a member of the Shanxi youth team, hopes to go to the United States to continue to improve his level, and the team also comprehensively considers agreeing to allow the election.

You should know that the contract originally required Zhang Boyuan to represent Shanxi team in the CBA league in the new season, but after comprehensive consideration, the club still took the player's personal development first and agreed to try it. For Shanxi, they have always supported players to go out and go out. Danhouran, the team, and Zhang Wenjie, who was sent away, have both experienced studying abroad.

, and it has just been half a month since the news officially joined Veritas Academy. Of course, everything has its precursors. You can see in the social media updated by CBA player Kamiran before August 9 that Pacers guard Mathering and Zhang Boyuan all appeared in the training camp held by Veritas Academy.

Let's first talk about this Veritas Academy. It is not an ordinary Meigao, but a "basketball preparatory + academic qualification program". The main goal is to help players create exposure and university scholarships. The games played are more of the tournament of the United States, or top AAU competitions such as EYBL and Adidas 3SSB. Usually, AAU competitions are another team that players participate outside the school, but players from schools like Veritas Academy can not only play school team events on behalf of the school, but also participate in top AAU events like EYBL in the name of the club.

From the above schedule, you can see the Utah Preparatory School where the top pick Di Bansa was previously studying, and Oak Hill where Anthony studied (the brothers who have watched American TV series basketball can't forget this school), and AZ Compass.

The IMG and Montward Academy that everyone knows more now are also schools of the same nature as Veritas Academy, but Veritas is not as high as the others.

So joining a school that is mainly international students, is not the top-notch, but has exposure, is still relatively friendly to Zhang Boyuan. First of all, the competition faced will not be so large, you can get a certain amount of training, and you can also have good exposure.

Back to the player himself, Zhang Boyuan, now 18 years old, was named a four-star high school student by ON3 Sports, and has represented many U-series national teams in international competitions, such as the U16 Asian Youth Championship, the U17 World Youth Championship, the U18 Asian Cup and this year's U19 World Cup.

In the U19 Men's Basketball World Cup that ended not long ago, Zhang Boyuan played 7 games in total, averaging 26.5 minutes per game, scoring 14.7 points, 5.1 rebounds, 1.1 assists and 1.4 steals. As a four-star high school student by US media, his performance and personal development are far from meeting the expectations of fans. Some media people said: Compared with last year, his progress is very limited. This is because he has only played relatively low-level games in the past year, thus developing some bad court habits and allowing his shortcomings to be infinitely magnified in the World Championships.

However, his performance still allowed the professional draft website Draft Room to rank him at the 30th pick in the 2028 NBA mock draft. FIBA officially selected the top 20 new stars of the U19 World Cup in the Men's Basketball Team before the game, and Zhang Boyuan ranked 14th.

Zhang Boyuan's own goal has always been in the NBA, especially seeing that Yang Hansen has entered the NBA, Zhang Boyuan said: "I really want to go there, and at the same time I have been working hard. I hope that one day I can go to the NBA, that is my dream."

The dream may be very far away, but at least I have taken the first step now!