The basketball story of Yegor Jamin, the Russian No. 8 pick who was beaten to break the defense by Yang Hansen

During the Rockets period when Yao Ming and McGrady joined forces, they had an enemy - the Utah Jazz, especially the Russian player Kirirenko, nicknamed "AK47" in the Jazz. He is an offense and defense, belongs to the blocking machine, and is the biggest victim of the Rockets. The wheel of time is rolling forward. Now Kirirenko has become the head of the Russian Basketball Association. He is helping Russian basketball revival through unremitting efforts.

The predecessor of Russian basketball was Soviet basketball. They were once one of the best world-class teams. Especially during the Cold War when the US-Soviet battled, basketball games were a war without gunpowder, both in the Olympics and the World Championships. Both sides fought for the championship and died. Later, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, basketball powers such as Lithuania, Latvia, Georgia, and Ukraine were all independent, and Russian basketball strength was hard to support.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 to before this year's draft, a total of 10 NBA-level players emerged in the entire Russian basketball world. Among them, Kirilenko (24th pick in the first round), followed by Mozgov (undraft), and Kororev, the highest pick in the draft, was selected by the Los Angeles Clippers with the 12th pick in the first round of the 2005 draft, but as a lottery pick in the NBA, he only played 34 times in 168 minutes in two seasons, making him a well-known high-ranking parallel.

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Three players in Russia have signed up for the draft this year, namely Vlad Goldin of Michigan State and Viktor Lakhin of Clemson University. They are both high centers who have played for four or five years at American universities. Vlad Goldin is also part of the Rich Paul agency with Hansen Yang. The last one is Yegor Jamin, who is a tall point guard of 2.06 meters. This year, he successfully sets the highest pick in the NBA draft and was selected by the Brooklyn Nets with the 8th pick in the first round.

And what he has been hotly discussed by Chinese fans recently is not because he was selected at a high pick, but because he was reported to be beaten by Yang Hansen during the team's solo trial and refused to shake hands after the game. It seems that this guy wants to follow his senior Kirilenko and China's New Great Wall. So how capable is this player? Today's NBA character Zhi will bring you the story of Yegor Jamin (hereinafter referred to as Yegor). The cause of the incident was that a reporter asked Yang Hansen what interesting things were in the team's separate trial session. Yang Hansen said with a smile: "During the game, I made an opponent very angry. I wouldn't name it, but during the game, I gave him a vivid emotional control class. We played against each other, and then I said trash talk to each other. I angered him. This guy was over, no longer passed the ball, never won the entire training class, and in the end he didn't quiver with me." Later, some media reported in depth that the player Xiao Yang was talking about was Yegor who was playing during the trial session of the Raptors.

There is no clear explanation about what trash Yang Hansen said to anger Yegor, but Xiao Yang is not bad at language attacks. He often plays PS5 game consoles and communicates with international friends for a long time in the networking mode. Players who have played international server games know that the official communication language of any game in the international server is all kinds of swear words C language.

Yegor has a nickname called New Doncic, because he and Doncic are both youth training works of Real Madrid in Spain and have very similar growth trajectories. He was born in Moscow on March 3, 2006. His father Vladimir Jamin is also a professional basketball player. He played for the Russian Professional League Himki and Urals. Influenced by his father, he was exposed to basketball since he was a child. Later, he entered the Trinta Academy, the best basketball school in Moscow for training, and his basic basketball skills were very solid.

The basketball coach of Trinta Academy is Evgeny Gorbunov. He is a Uzbekistan professional basketball player. He was also selected for the Uzbek men's basketball team to participate in the 2001 and 2003 men's basketball Asian Championships. After retiring in 2006, he went to Moscow to serve as basketball coach. In 2013, he started to serve as the head coach of Trinta Academy's men's and women's basketball team. He devoted all his efforts to training Yegor. According to reports, in addition to polishing Yegor's basic skills, he also told Yegor a large number of videos of Jordan, Kobe and Rondo to Yegor frame by frame, allowing Yegor to grow rapidly. After Yegor was selected by the Nets, Evgeny Gorbunov said excitedly: "This is as great as Gagarin's first landing on the moon."

Evgeny is in the middle. Coach Gorbunov

In 2021, Evgeny Gorbunov sent Yegor's training video to major European basketball clubs and immediately received recruitment invitations from 6 top European clubs, including Real Madrid, but Yegor and Evgeny Gorbunov have a deep affection for masters and apprentices, and he doesn't want to leave at all. Evgeny Gorbunov did a lot of work. He said that Russia's basketball environment is not conducive to Yegor's growth. On the contrary, Real Madrid is the best youth training team in Europe, which will be an opportunity to change the fate of basketball. Finally, in May of that year, Yegor followed his master's advice and went to Spain from his hometown to sign a six-year contract with Real Madrid.

Shortly after signing the contract with Real Madrid, Yegor was invited to be selected for the Russian U16 national team and participated in the U16 European Championship. As a result, he won the game, averaging 21.1 points and 6.9 rebounds, helping Russia U16 to win the third place in the European Championship..

He went to Spain with this honor. His life in Spain was extremely painful at first because he was unfamiliar with the place, different languages, and extremely uncomfortable in terms of diet, living habits, etc. There was also the problem of masks. All this was intertwined and he felt homesick and had a strong desire to give up. At the critical moment, Evgeny Gorbunov provided psychological counseling and spiritual encouragement to Yegor in Russia every day.

Of course, the most important thing is to find happiness and build confidence on the basketball court. In 2022, Yegore followed the Real Madrid Youth Team to participate in the Spanish Youth Championship. He helped the team win the championship with a team score of 17.3 points per game. In addition, the outstanding ball business and overall view he showed in the game were even seen by the agent Kike Villalobos who had discovered Doncic. After communicating with Yegore's family and coach, he began to intervene. Kike arranged a special coaching team to formulate a more detailed and professional training plan for Yegore, striving to make him the second Doncic.

In 2023, Yegor was promoted to Real Madrid B team. He led the team to participate in the "European Next Generation" basketball championship. The team passed the opportunity. Especially in the final, in order to enhance the influence of the game, Real Madrid needs to compete with the star team composed of talented players from other European clubs. However, even so Real Madrid still won. Yegor scored 10 points, 7 rebounds and 8 assists in the final. In 2024, he continued to lead Real Madrid B team to defeat the French Academy INSEP team 85-84 overtime to complete the defense. He successfully replicated Doncic's record of dominating the European youth basketball world.

It was also in the summer of 2024 that Yegor became a world-renowned young talent with a comprehensive score of 97 points. In the 2025 draft prediction, he has two choices. One is to follow Doncic and join Real Madrid's adult team to continue playing in European basketball, and the other is to go to American universities to compete in the NCAA.

In the United States, Brigham Young hired Phoenix Suns assistant coach Kevin Yang as the team's head coach with a high salary in 2024. The new official made three fuss. Kevin Yang wanted to establish reputation as soon as he took office, so he found Travis Hansen, a well-known alumnus of Brigham Young. He was the 37th pick in the 2003 Super Platinum Generation No. 37th overall pick in the 2003 Super Platinum Generation, who was the same as James, Anthony and Wade. However, after only one season in the NBA, he started to search for gold because of his lack of strength. In 2011, he played for the Russian Shimki team, and met Yegor's father Vladimir and established a deep friendship. After retirement, he has been conducting basketball youth training business in Utah. Kevin Yang hopes to recruit some powerful high school students for the school through Hansen's channels.

Kevin Young and Yegor

Hansen, as former NBA players, often guided Yegor during his growth process. He has also been silently paying attention to Yegor's growth in Real Madrid. The two sides are closely connected. This year, he asked Yegor if he was interested in coming to the United States to play college games. Brigham Young will provide high recruitment bonuses, with him as the absolute core. In addition, he pays more attention to scouts in the United States. Moreover, Spanish professional games are obviously more difficult than American college games. After all, European basketball level is second only to the NBA in the world. After discussion with his family and agent team, Yegor finally decided to go to the United States. The news of Travis Hansen and Yegor is explosive for Brigham Young University. The most well-known NBA player in the school in 122 years include the old Fox Danny Angie, who is now the general manager of the Jazz. In addition, there are Big Bamboo Barrel Bradley, the lonely great master Fredette who killed all the CBA, and Travis Hansen mentioned earlier. Utah media reported the news with front-page headlines. They said that this is the second largest successful recruitment in the 122 years since the establishment of the school was second only to the 1980s.

The attention of Brigham Young University in the whole state has soared, and Yegor did not disappoint. He became the team's number one organizational core, averaging 27 minutes per game to score 10 points, 3.9 rebounds, 5.5 assists, leading the team to a record of 24 wins and 9 losses, and reached the Sweet 16 in March. This result is very good, especially when other players in the team are relatively average in strength. The school's best record in March Madness was that it reached the Ultimate quarterfinals in March Madness, and the last time it entered the quarterfinals was achieved under the leadership of Fredette in 2011.

One year of college games allowed Yegor to stabilize his reputation in the lottery show. As a tall point guard, he easily reminds people of Josh Giddy in the NBA. Of course, he has also exposed shortcomings such as average physical confrontation ability and unstable scoring methods. It is still much worse than legends such as Doncic and Magic Johnson.

NBA draft is the most critical step in the career for players, but not all. Their future journey is still long and full of hardships, and their story will become important as their reputation becomes more important. If Harten fails to play, he is destined to become a passerby in the NBA like Zhou Qi. The story of him playing for Zhou Qi after playing is extremely legendary. Now Yang Hansen and Yegor need to do their best. I hope they can both have a great career and see who will become a supporting role in each other's stories in the end.