Former NBA big man Chris Boucher according to Chinese basketball reporter Zhang Duo (Link to Twitter) and the Chinese Basketball Association (Link to Instagram).
A former undrafted free agent, Boucher spent most of his NBA career with the Raptors โ his seven years in Toronto sandwiched between brief stints in Golden State and Boston. The 6โ8โณ forward/center averaged 8.7 points and 5.1 rebounds in 17.6 minutes per game over 416 regular season games (23 starts) and appeared in 15 more postseason contests.
Boucher, 33, won back-to-back championships in 2018 and 2019 with the Warriors and Raptors and earned Sixth Man of the Year votes in 2021 after a career in which he averaged 13.6 PPG and 6.7 RPG on .514/.383/.788 shooting in 60 games for Toronto.
Boucher signed a one-year, minimum-salary contract with the Celtics in the 2025 offseason, but he played in just nine games for the team and was distributed to Utah at the 2026 trade deadline as Boston sought to get below the luxury tax line. Then jazz refused he has been an unrestricted free agent ever since.
Chinese Basketball Association teams are allowed to carry up to three “import” players at a time, so Boucher replaces another NBA veteran, JaVale McGeewho was waived by the Sharks after he averaged 5.1 points and 2.9 rebounds in 10.6 minutes per game in eight games this season.
Shanghai, which is off to a 7-1 start this fall, also has former NBA guards D’Angelo Russell and Brandon Goodwin in your list. The backcourt duo played a key role in the Sharks’ early success, with Russell averaging 18.0 points and 5.7 assists per game while Goodwin averaged 19.6 points and 8.6 points per game.
