Dream is like Yang Hansen playing in the NBA! The 18-year-old national youth team won the first NCAA D1 olive branch

On September 21, according to the official social media update of the Veritas Academy basketball team of the American high school, the NCAA school offer obtained by the players. Among them, Chinese player and Shanxi team star Zhang Boyuan won the offer from the University of California Riverside, the first NCAA first-level league school offer.

media person Wang Jian mentioned that Zhang Boyuan received an offer from the University of California, Riverside and said: Riverside can be said to be a brand new team. The team's former head coach and the only Asian head coach in the NCAA Division I League, Mike Magpayo, just left the team this year and went to coach for Fordham University.

There are many unknowns in the brand new coaches and brand new teams. Of course, I believe this is just the beginning. After the new season starts, Nike EYBL Scholastic will never lack the attention of NCAA university coaches at the sidelines of famous universities. As long as Zhang Boyuan can perform well, offers from good schools will definitely be indispensable.

During this year's U19 Men's Basketball World Cup, Zhang Boyuan responded to his career dream and said: "My dream is to go to the NBA. You know, Chinese basketball player Yang Hansen went to the NBA. I am the same. I really want to go, and I have been working hard for it and keep working hard.

I hope that maybe one day I can go to the NBA, that is my dream."

NBADraft room updated the 2028 draft list, and Shanxi Men's Basketball forward star Zhang Boyuan was selected and predicted to be selected in the 30th pick in the first round.

Evaluation: He is a large-scale forward and guard swinger with a very soft shooting touch. He is one of the best potential newcomers in China in the past 10 years.

Zhang Boyuan's main performance in the FIBA ​​games in the past two years is as follows:

2025 U19 World Cup: 14.7 points, 5.1 rebounds, 1.1 assists and 1.4 steals.

2024 U17 World Cup‌: Average 17.1 points and 4.6 rebounds, a three-point shooting percentage of 40.7%, and scored 28 points in a single game against Lithuania.

2024 U18 Asian Cup‌: Lead the team to win the third place, selected for the best team in the tournament, averaging 17.2 points per game.

FIBA official website rated him as the 14th star in the world in the U19 World Cup, saying that he "will definitely enter the Chinese national team in the future."

It is worth mentioning that Yang Hansen was also attracted by the Trail Blazers for the U19 Men's Basketball World Cup, and then followed for two years. In this year's draft, the Trail Blazers were selected with 16 picks.

Although Zhang Boyuan joined the Shanxi Youth Team, with Yu Miti's joining, he hopes to hit the NBA's dream, for a long time, Zhang Boyuan is likely to go to the United States.