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Deny Affodia, Yang s role model player in Portland Trail Blazers

7:02pm, 14 July 2025【Basketball】

Yesterday, when I introduced Yang Hansen's Trail Blazers teammate Scott Henderson, many fans pointed out that Henderson was already a clay Buddha crossing the river because of his poor performance. He could not be traded one day. At present, the core of the Trail Blazers should be Deny Affodyya. His professional qualities and struggle history are worth learning from Yang Hansen. Today's NBA character story will bring you Affodyya's basketball story.

Walter, who represents the Guggenheim family, currently has at least 14 of the 30 NBA teams. In addition, former NBA president David Stern and current president Xiao Hua are both Jewish, so many people joke that the NBA is now a wealth game for Jewish rich people.

Although Jewish people have a huge influence in the NBA management, they do not have particularly influential players in NBA professional players. There is a joke in the American campus circle: "Jewish children are busy learning economics and law, and only black children will participate in sports." Now Affyya from Israel is the sports banner of Jewish people around the world.

If you often pay attention to the conflict between Pakistan and Israel, you should be able to understand some of the national history of Israel. They founded the country in 1948. After the founding of the country, wars continued with neighboring countries due to territorial disputes, religious conflicts and other issues and continued until now. Although the country has been in turmoil, they established their own basketball league in 1954. The Israeli men's basketball team has never participated in the Olympics and only participated in a World Championship in 1986. The team's best record in history was that it reached the final at the European Basketball Championship held in Italy in 1979, and finally lost to the former Soviet Union 76-98 to win the silver medal.

Basketball is the second largest sport in Israel after football. In 2025, the country's basketball player registrations will be about 35,000. The country's players have also made great efforts to pursue their dreams in the NBA. Currently, including Affodyya has a total of 4 NBA-level players. The first to join the NBA was Casby, who was selected by the Kings in the first round of 23rd show in 2009. He caused a huge sensation in Israel and also brought great motivation to the development of the country's basketball career. Especially for many young people engaged in basketball, Casby is a beacon, and he has brought hope and confidence to everyone.

Casby

Gal Mikel in 2014 and TJ Liv in 2017 also successfully entered the NBA. In particular, TJ Liv Chinese fans are familiar with them. He was the 18th pick in the first round of the NBA in 2017. He played for the Beijing Shougang team in the CBA two years ago. He returned to the Israeli Basketball League last season. Until 2020, Affodyya refreshed the highest draft score of the Israeli men's basketball athlete with the ninth pick in the first round. At present, Affodyya is also the only Israeli player to stay in the NBA.

TJ Liv

Affodyya is only half Jewish. His mother Sharon Aqi is an Israeli, while his father Zufur is a former Yugoslav Serbian. He was the legendary captain of the Belgrade Red Stars, a Serbian business card sports club. He played for the club for a full 10 years. He was also selected for the Yugoslav national team and helped the team win the World Championship bronze medal. In 1989, Yugoslavia had many internal conflicts and Serbia's domestic political situation was turbulent. Zufur went to the Israeli basketball league to make gold. Later, he played for ten years. Because of the separation between the two places, he divorced his first wife and met the track and field athlete Salon Aqi in Israel. The two got married. Affodyya was born on January 3, 2001. When he was a child, Affodyya and his parents

Zufur were young and worked as a youth training coach at the Israeli Benekhzliya Basketball Club. He is currently the team's general manager. There is a huge poster of his time in Yugoslavia in his office, but no one knows his brilliant player career now. Everyone in Israel knows that he is the father of NBA player Affodyya. He smiles and says that he has been beaten to death on the beach by the back wave.

Although his father was a professional basketball player, Affodia was not interested in basketball when he was a child. He liked football more. It was not until the fourth grade of elementary school that his classmates advised him to play basketball instead. He decided to follow the trend and join the Benedahlja youth training team coached by his father and accept his father's personal guidance.

The two have very unpleasant experience in cooperation. As an excellent former professional player, Zufur has very high requirements for his son. He requires Affodyya to follow his training methods meticulously, but the child has a rebellious mentality. They often quarrel on the court. For example, Affodyya sometimes misses four goals in a row. Zufur angrily accused his son of his real shooter of not missing four goals in a row. Affodyya refuted him that this situation will happen frequently, and the two quarreled more and more intensely and finally parted in disagreement. Zufur realized that he had a counterproductive effect on Affodyya's basketball growth, so he solemnly told him when Affodyya was 14 years old: "I will not guide you anymore in basketball, but if you need help, I will always be by your side." From that day on, Zufur no longer talked to his son about any basketball.ỷ số bóng đá