Nationality Chinese Listed weight 238 lb (108 kg) Playing career Weight 108 kg Number 14 Pro career 2014 | Listed height 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) College Shenzhen Sports School Height 2.08 m Position Center High school Shenzhen Middle School | |
League Chinese Basketball Association Born July 5, 1996 (age 20)
Anshan, China ( 1996-07-05 ) | ||
Zou Yuchen (simplified Chinese: 邹雨宸; traditional Chinese: 鄒雨宸; pinyin: Zōu Yǔ Chén; born July 5, 1996) is a Chinese male professional basketball player who currently plays for Bayi Rockets in the Chinese Basketball Association.
Career
Born in a basketball family of Anshan, Liaoning, Zou's parents were players from Bayi Basketball Team. Zou inherited the excellent traits of their parents, while he was a child, Zou with peers than children had good conditions of being a good basketballer with bulk and a good body shape. His family immigrated into Zhuhai from Anshan at his childhood, but there was not a professional basketball team in those days. It was Dai Yixin who once commended Yi Jianlian to Shenzhen Sports School, Dai was the president of Shenzhen Sports School at that time, It Set Dai's mind to introduce Zou into the sports school what was refused by Zou's parents with thanks. Dai had no choice but to request the famous basketball coach Ma Yuenan to persuade Zou's parents, finally Zou's parents agreed that Zou went to the sports school, Zou formally startd his basketball career from September 2008.
For the talent of playing basketball, once Zou was a member of Juvenile Group in Liaoning basketball team, afterwards he became a member of Bayi Youth Basketball Team in 2009, and was chosen to play in China men's national basketball team On March, 2016. in the same year, he represented China at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.