TEHRAN - Iran's Hamed Haddadi is a clear representative of the talent under the backboard, a player from another era who continues to excite in his country and who had some creditable years in the best league in the world with the Grizzlies, before going to China and returning to be a hero in his homeland.

He’s one that the world of basketball will never forget, asia-basket.com wrote.

China’s legendary center Yao Ming and his compatriots Yi Jianlian, Wang Zhizhi, Sun Yue, Mengke Bateer and Zhou Qi, Japan’s Yuta Tabuse and Rui Hachimura, and Taiwanese-American Jeremy Lin are among the 10-man list.

At the end of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023, Haddadi officially bade farewell to his national basketball career.