"T-mac said that the old injury has recurred, and now he is looking for a doctor everywhere, and Yao's words are said to be interested in testing the waters of this year's free agent market." After all, Jones has worked for the Rockets for more than ten years, and although he has left the team, his connections are still there, and this news is definitely first-hand.

"Yao Ming testing the free agent market?" When Tang Tian heard the news, his calm expression finally fluctuated slightly.

"Yes, it stands to reason that with Yao's character, he won't leave eventually, but it seems that the management is worried about his team in the handling of certain things." Jones said a rough idea, and only Yao Ming and a few people knew what it was.

"Buy me a ticket to Houston." Tang Tian said directly.

For Morey, Tang Tian was unhappy.

But for Yao Ming, he is preferred.

Because of the love in the previous life, and because of the three years of getting along in Houston.

Of course, there is another point, the current Yao Ming is not the same as Yao Ming in the previous life, last season was Yao Ming's absolute peak, at this time, if he can be recruited to the Cavaliers, the role will definitely be greater than Anthony.

Before getting on the plane, he talked to Yao Ming on the phone, and after getting off the plane, he went directly to Yao Ming's manor in the suburbs.

Ye Li picked him up at the door.

This scene suddenly reminded him of the scene of recruiting Billups in Detroit three years ago.

Different people, but it seems to be somewhat the same situation.

"Coach." Seeing Tang Tian, Yao Ming helped Ye Li to stand up, wanting to greet Tang Tian.

His left foot was wrapped in thick plasterboard, and it appeared that the left ankle injury had indeed recurred.

"Sit down, don't get up." Tang Tian motioned for him not to move, and walked to the sofa next to him and sat down.

Ye Li helped Yao Ming sit down, and then went down to make tea for them.

"Your ankles?"

"It's about the same as last year, and it should be fine to take a two-month break." Yao Ming smiled, he didn't mention the medicine, firstly, the recurrence of the old injury was related to excessive play, and it would embarrass Tang Tian if he mentioned it, and secondly, Tang Tian was not the head coach of the Rockets after all.

Tang Tian nodded, Yao Ming in his previous life, his left foot was devastated, although he was not suffering the kind of stress fracture that led to retirement in his previous life, but he lost the protection of his iron ankle, and it was a matter of time.

"I heard you're ready to test the waters of this year's free agent market?" He continued.

Yao Ming paused for a moment and didn't speak.

"Come, tea." Ye Li brought Tang Tian a cup of tea at this time.

"Thank you."

Tang Tian said and put the quilt on the coffee table.

"Actually, I'm a little reluctant to leave here." At this moment, Yao Ming spoke.

Tang Tian looked at him, usually at the beginning of this kind of words, there would be a twist.

"But when it comes to playing time, the way the management deals with it chills me."

Sure enough.

"What's going on? Didn't I tell you to try to communicate with Tom before? ”

Yao Ming nodded, and unconsciously smiled bitterly: "I have communicated, in fact, this has nothing to do with Coach Thibodeau, that is, his coaching style, he actually tried to change it last season." ”

Tang Tian nodded after listening, last season, Yao Ming's playing time after the All-Star Game had indeed decreased.

What is different here from the previous life is that Thibodeau has been Tang Tian's assistant coach for three years and Yao Ming has been the coach for three years, so it is much easier for the two sides to communicate.

However, some things are indeed difficult to change, there are not as many tactical changes as Tang Tian, and in the playoffs, the more the game is played, the more anxious it becomes, and Thibodeau will definitely return to instinct in terms of employing people.

Like Yao Ming said, it really doesn't matter to the individual, this is Thibodeau's coaching style.

"At the end of the finals, my ankle injury recurred, and my team realized the seriousness of the problem, so I tried to communicate with the coaching staff and management, hoping to set a hard requirement, such as the average playing time must be limited to 35 minutes per game."

"And then?"

"Coach Thibodeau admitted that he couldn't do it, and as a result of the final communication, Mr. Alexander called me and Thibodeau to his estate, hoping that we could all make some concessions."

"Peacemaker." Tang Tian replied very instinctively, in the matter between him and Morey, Alexander also handled it like this.

Yao Ming smiled bitterly, this adjective is very appropriate.

"As a result of the discussion, in the end, this hard request was not fulfilled, and Coach Thibodeau verbally promised to reduce my playing time as much as possible."

"I didn't say it." Tang Tian smiled bitterly.

Yao Ming nodded, indeed, he mentioned it once, which means that he didn't mention it.

Tang Tian took a sip of tea.

Yao Ming just said this, and it seems that the so-called jumping out of the contract may be more of a means to promote the team's time limit requirements, rather than rushing to leave the Rockets.

This is understandable, after all, Yao Ming has been in Houston for 8 years, and he bought it all last year in order to get married, who wants to toss around.

As for those words when I visited the White House last year, I also said some instinctive words when I reached that point.

"If I asked you to come to Cleveland, would you come?" Tang Tian put down the teacup, and finally said what he meant.

Although he knew Yao Ming's true thoughts, he still had to do this step of trying.

"Coach, do you want me to go to the Cavaliers?" Yao Ming looked at Tang Tian suspiciously.

Tang Tian nodded.

"Okay, you say go, I'll go."

“……”

Tang Tian was stunned for a moment, this ...... It's so crisp!

It's completely different from what I imagined, hey!

Dare to love his previous blind operations, it's all a waste of time?

"Are you sure?" He confirmed.

Yao Ming nodded.

"Lao Yao told me, as long as the coach speaks, he will definitely agree." Ye Li said with a smile on the side at this time.

"Without a coach, I would have retired by now." Yao Ming continued.

Injuries are a big thing, but only the injuries themselves know best.

"Okay, then it's decided." Tang Tian was a little excited.

Paul had planned it last summer, but Yao Ming didn't dare to think about it until after winning the championship.

His heart, in fact, is very big.

If you were someone else, if you have the opportunity to coach the Cavaliers, as Hathaway said, most of the time she would want to let James stay with the Cavaliers in the summer of '10, and then recruit Wade and Bosh who decided to be one.

After all, the lineup like that in the previous life guaranteed two consecutive championships, and then it was easy to operate the dynasty.

But after taking one dynasty, Tang Tian definitely wanted more than just another dynasty.

People's desires will gradually become stronger.

Now Paul, James, Yao Ming, the three are 25 years old, 26 years old and 30 years old, all of them are at the peak, the picture is simple!

Three words of emotion: tremble! Coalition!