Zheng Haixia
Zheng Haixia (Chinese郑海霞, Pinyin Zheng Hǎixiá; born March 7, 1967 in Shangqiu, Henan, China) is a former Chinese basketball player who from 1997 to 1998 for the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA ) on the position the Center played. In her two seasons lasting WNBA career, she was awarded the fairest player with the WNBA Sportsmanship Award. At the international level, she won with the Chinese national team in the Basketball World Championship 1994 as well as at the 1992 Summer Olympics silver medal.
Career
Professional basketball
Los Angeles Sparks (1997 to 1998)
Zheng Haixia was selected in the second round at a total of 16 position by the Los Angeles Sparks in the Elite Draft in 1997. Their first game in the Women's National Basketball Association denied it on June 21, 1997 against the New York Liberty, in which they scored their first points. The Chinese graduated in the 1997 season 28 games - 21 of them in the starting lineup - for the Sparks, while they scored an average of 9.3 points and 4.4 rebounds per game. Due to their fair play, she was honored at the end of the season with the WNBA Sportsmanship Award. Moreover, it was based on the best field throw percentage ( 61.8 %) appointed all players in the Western Conference for Bud Light Shooting Champion of the Western Conference.
After another season with the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA, she ended her career and return to Beijing in China.
National team ( 1983-1998 )
Zheng Haixia represented her native China for a total of four Olympic Games, as well as several other international competitions. The first race for the Chinese national team they had in the Basketball World Championship 1983 in Brazil, where the Chinese won the bronze medal. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, the Chinesinen won the bronze medal. In 1992 she won the Chinese national team at the Olympic Summer Games in Barcelona, the silver medal. Two years later she was appointed at the World Basketball Championships in 1994, when they again won the silver medal for most valuable player of the tournament. The Basketball World Cup 1998 was the last international competition in which they participated.
Awards and achievements
- National Bronze medal at the 1983 FIBA World Championship
- 1984 bronze medal at the Summer Olympics
- 1992 Silver medal at the Summer Olympics
- 1994 Silver medal at the World Basketball Championship
- 1994 most valuable player of the World Basketball Championship
- WNBA 1997 WNBA Sportsmanship Award
- 1997 Bud Light Shooting Champion
Career Stats
Key to Career statistics: ( GP = Total Games; GS = games in the starting lineup, MPG = Minutes played per game, FG % = throw percentage from the field; 3P % = throw percentage from 3-point range, FT % = Free throw percentage, OFF = offensive rebounds per game; DEF = defensive rebounds per game, RPG = rebounds per game, scored APG = assists per game, blocks per game BPG = achieved, PPG = points scored per game)