Yen Hsing-su

Yen Hsing-su
Yen Hsing-su
Traditional Chinese	顏かお行くだり書しょ
Simplified Chinese	颜行くだり书
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Yán Xíngshū
Wade–Giles	Yen2 Hsing2-shu1

Yen Hsing-su
	Yen at the 2008 Leisure Taiwan Day in Taipei
Taiwan Beer Leopards
Position	Chief operating officer
League	Chinese Basketball Alliance (Taiwan), 1995-1998; Division A (甲かぶと組ぐみ聯れん賽さい), Taiwan, 1998-2003; Super Basketball League, 2003-2004; 2007-2009; Chinese Basketball Association (People's Republic of China), 2007-2008; 2009-2010; T1 League (Taiwan), 2023-present;
Personal information
Born	8 September 1976 (age 48); Taipei County (now New Taipei City), Taiwan
Listed height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Listed weight	163 lb (74 kg)
Career information
High school	Private Nanshan Senior High School (私立しりつ南山なんざん高級こうきゅう中學ちゅうがく), Taipei County, Taiwan
College	Fu Jen Catholic University
Playing career	1995–2010
Position	Point guard
Career history
	Tera/Kaohsiung/BCC Mars (泰たい瑞みず/高こう雄つよし/中廣なかひろ戰せん神かみ隊たい), (1995-1998; 2000-2004); ROC Armed Forces Training Team (國軍こくぐん培つちかえ訓くん隊たい), (1998-2000); Yunnan Bulls (2007-2008),; Taiwan Beer (2008-2009),; Shanghai Sharks (2009-2010);
Career highlights and awards
	As executive: T1 League champion (2024); T1 League General Manager of the Year (2024);

Yen Hsing-su (Chinese: 顏かお行書ぎょうしょ; born 8 September 1976), also known as Johnny Yen, is a Taiwanese basketball coach and former basketball player, singer and actor. Since 2017 he has been the assistant coach of the Chinese Taipei men's national basketball team.^[1]^[2] From 2015 to 2017 he coached the Fubon Braves in Taiwan's Super Basketball League.^[3]

Nicknamed "The Basketball Genie" (籃球精靈せいれい) for his playmaking skills, Yen was a regular of the Chinese Taipei national basketball team from 1997 to 2003. At the 2003 ABC Championship, he led the tournament in assists (4.7 per game), but retired soon afterwards to pursue a career in entertainment. In the years to follow, he led the boy band 183 Club and also starred in many popular TV dramas. He returned to professional basketball in 2007 and permanently retired in 2010. He has played professionally in both Taiwan (Chinese Basketball Alliance) and mainland China (Chinese Basketball Association).

Basketball career

Yen was a high school star back in Private NanShan Senior High School and turned professional in 1995 with the Tera Mars (later Kaohsiung and BCC Mars) in the Chinese Basketball Alliance of Taiwan.^[4] As starting point guard, he led the league in assists for the 1997–1998 season and was then ranked among the best and brightest next-generation backcourt players in Taiwan. He was also selected to the Chinese Taipei senior basketball team from 1997 until 2003.

Around the start of the 21st century, however, Yen Hsing-su started to suffer from a succession of knee injuries. In his last appearance on the national team, Yen led the FIBA Asian Championship in assists, signifying his ability to continuously compete at Asia's highest level of basketball if free from injury. Yet, he decided to become a full-time entertainer after completing the first season (2003–2004) of the newly founded Super Basketball League (SBL).^[5] This was presumably due to the chronic knee problem and, arguably, the success of his new entertainment career following the airing of My MVP Valentine, a basketball-themed TV drama he starred in while healing the initial knee injury in 2002.

In 2007, Yen returned to basketball when he signed with Yunnan Bulls in the Chinese Basketball Association in mainland China to play in the 2007–2008 season. As a starter, he averaged 8.1 points and 5.2 assists (3rd in the league) in 22 games. After the season, he returned to Taiwan to play for Taiwan Beer in the SBL where he won his only club championship title. In the ensuing 2009–2010 season, Yen once again joined the Chinese professional league to play for the Shanghai Sharks.

Currently, Yen is an assistant coach in Brigham Young University–Hawaii and a sports commentator at FOX Sports Taiwan.

On July 5, 2023, Yen was named as the chief operating officer of the TaiwanBeer Leopards.^[6] On May 16, 2024, Yen awarded the T1 League General Manager of the Year in 2023–24 season.^[7]

Filmography (TV Dramas)

Year	English title	Chinese title	Role
2002	My MVP Valentine	MVP情人じょうにん	Duan Chen-feng
2004	Snow Angel	雪ゆき天使てんし	Chi Hsing-feng
2004	The Champion	任にん我わが遨遊	Wu Zhen Kang
2005	The Prince Who Turns into a Frog	王子おうじ變へん青蛙あおがえる	Hsieh Chuan
2006	Legend of Star Apple	星ほし蘋果樂園らくえん	Lu Tien-hao
2020	Fly the Jumper	違反いはん校規こうき的てき跳とべ投とう	Coach Wei Li

External links

Hsing-su Yen at IMDb
Yen Hsing-su on Instagram

Notes and references

^ "HSING-SU YEN basketball profile". Asia-basket.com. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
^ "Chinese Taipei - FIBA Asia Cup 2021 Qualifiers". FIBA. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
^ Ye Shihong (19 April 2017). "《籃球》富とみ邦くに勇士ゆうし大だい地震じしん總そう教練きょうれん顏がお行書ぎょうしょ轉任てんにん顧問こもん". China Times (in Chinese). Retrieved 11 July 2020.
^ The Taiwanese professional league that existed in the 1990s is not to be confused with the Continental Basketball Association of the United States or the Chinese Basketball Association of the People's Republic of China, which are also abbreviated as "CBA".
^ Yen Hsing-su is among the few players who have played in both the Taiwanese CBA and the SBL. ^{[citation needed]}
^ "「籃球精靈せいれい」回かい來らい了りょう顏がお行書ぎょうしょ出で任にん台だい啤雲豹ひょう營運長ちょう". ETtoday. 5 July 2023. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
^ "籃球精靈せいれい勇いさむ奪だつT1最さい佳けい經理けいり人じん顏がお行書ぎょうしょ操みさお盤ばん雲くも豹ひょう生涯しょうがい首くび度ど獲え獎". ETtoday. 16 May 2024. Retrieved 16 May 2024.

[1] "HSING-SU YEN basketball profile". Asia-basket.com. Retrieved 11 July 2020.

[2] "Chinese Taipei - FIBA Asia Cup 2021 Qualifiers". FIBA. Retrieved 11 July 2020.

[3] Ye Shihong (19 April 2017). "《籃球》富とみ邦くに勇士ゆうし大だい地震じしん總そう教練きょうれん顏がお行書ぎょうしょ轉任てんにん顧問こもん". China Times (in Chinese). Retrieved 11 July 2020.

[4] The Taiwanese professional league that existed in the 1990s is not to be confused with the Continental Basketball Association of the United States or the Chinese Basketball Association of the People's Republic of China, which are also abbreviated as "CBA".

[5] Yen Hsing-su is among the few players who have played in both the Taiwanese CBA and the SBL. ^{[citation needed]}

[6] "「籃球精靈せいれい」回かい來らい了りょう顏がお行書ぎょうしょ出で任にん台だい啤雲豹ひょう營運長ちょう". ETtoday. 5 July 2023. Retrieved 5 July 2023.

[7] "籃球精靈せいれい勇いさむ奪だつT1最さい佳けい經理けいり人じん顏がお行書ぎょうしょ操みさお盤ばん雲くも豹ひょう生涯しょうがい首くび度ど獲え獎". ETtoday. 16 May 2024. Retrieved 16 May 2024.

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