"This, it is an honor to be able to represent the country, and the Chinese men's basketball team also needs me, and to be honest, this is not my sole decision." Sure enough, after hesitating for a long time, Yao Ming finally said so.

"Da Yao, you've only been playing in the NBA for 4 years, but your injuries add up to five or six places, right? Especially with your left ankle last season, you also know that what an athlete fears most is a sustained high-intensity game, which can ruin your entire career. Tang Tian continued.

Yao Ming nodded, it was obvious that he knew this himself.

"As for the national team, to put it mildly, you are irreplaceable in the Chinese team, even if you don't participate in some national team competitions, they can't remove you from the team." Tang Tian continued.

Yao Ming nodded, but didn't speak.

Seeing Yao Ming's reaction, Tang Tian knew that he probably knew that he had made a choice.

In my memory, Yao Ming only played 48 games in the 06~07 season because of a fracture in the tibia of his left leg, and the Rockets team in history alone, if Yao Ming is healthy, the Rockets are definitely among the top three in the West in the regular season.

Although Millsap and Baria are now replenished, if Yao Ming is injured, everything will still be in vain.

So Tang Tian also had to make a choice.

"Well, how about we make a pact?" Tang Tian looked at Yao Ming and said.

"Agreed?" Yao Ming looked at Tang Tian suspiciously.

"My family is studying medicine, and I have an ancestral secret recipe that can make your left ankle fully recover, but you have to promise me that you will not participate in other competitions except for world-class competitions such as the World Championships and the Olympic Games, how about it?"

Completely healed left ankle?

Hearing what Tang Tian said, Yao Ming's determination began to waver.

As a tall player, the ankle is the most susceptible to injury due to the huge weight, and even if it is cured, it will recur from time to time, if it can really recover completely as Tang Tian said, he can fully agree.

"And to be honest, if you need to participate in Asian-level competitions to win, do you think it is a good thing for the development of the Chinese men's basketball team?" Tang Tian added.

Tang Tian's words poked Yao Ming's heart, as the first person in Chinese basketball, what he wants to see most is naturally the vigorous development of Chinese basketball, but as Tang Tian said, if you have to rely on him all the time to play an Asian game, what about when he retires? It is conceivable that it is definitely the collapse of the hegemony of men's basketball in Asia.

"Okay, I promise you, but only if it's like you said." Yao Ming finally spoke, and he, like Maddie at the beginning, was skeptical of the medicine Tang Tian said.

"That's right!" Tang Tian heard what Yao Ming said, a smile appeared on his face, and then he took out the bottle of blood circulation and blood stasis medicine he brought last time from his pocket, then poured one into his hand and handed it directly to Yao Ming.

Yao Ming was stunned for a moment, this is too casual, right?

"Don't worry, it's not poisonous, I'm still going to do it in Team Rocket." Tang Tian continued, although this was a way to hide people's eyes, but he didn't know why, he always felt a little like a man in the rivers and lakes.

Yao Ming nodded, Tang Tian's identity as the first assistant teacher couldn't be faked, he took the pill and swallowed it directly with the water in the cup.

While he took the pill, Tang Tian also used the 2 honor points he had accumulated to exchange the iron ankle from the system store, and then directly used it on Yao Ming.

Not long after Yao Ming took the pill, he felt a warm current coming from his left ankle, and what was even more amazing than that warm current was that he couldn't feel the soreness he had all the time before, and it was even similar to what he felt before the injury.

He couldn't hide his excitement and got up from the bed and took two steps, and then he found that he was completely fine.

He looked at Tang Tian in great astonishment, this is also amazing!

"It seems to be working, remember your agreement with me." Tang Tian stood up with a smile.

Yao Ming nodded excitedly, he didn't care what the principle of this medicine was at this time, after all, for him, good was more important than anything else.

After Tang Tian left Yao Ming's house, he toured the city in his memory, and found that everything related to his previous life had disappeared, and it seemed that his original identity had nothing to do with this world after crossing over.

After staying in China for a month, after those stocks rose more than 20 times, he threw them away, and the funds on hand went from $200,000 to $5 million in a blink of an eye.

He sold half of it, took out $2.5 million of it, and directly took a large stake in Alibaba, and instantly became one of the minority shareholders.

At this time, Alibaba is just starting to improve, and it is one of the best stocks to hold for a long time.

With that done, he flew back to the United States.

With just over a month to go until the start of the NBA preseason, the coaching staff of the teams is already busy preparing for the new season.

Tang Tian went to the Toyota Center, but to his surprise, there was a bang in the training hall, and there were already people training inside.

He followed the sound, and then saw that in the training hall, Hayes, Millsap, Novak, and Barria were sweating and training.

He walked straight inside.

"Coach!" Millsap was the first to discover Tang Tian, and he shouted directly.

As soon as he shouted, the other three people also stopped, and when they saw that it was Tang Tian, their faces were very excited.

"Why did you come to the training gym so early?"

"Coach, we've been training here for more than a month, and my back is much more proficient than before." Millsap said directly.

"My defense has improved as well, coach." Novak followed suit.

Been training for more than a month?

Tang Tian was a little surprised, this was not arranged by him.

"It's José's proposal, but I also want to try to live up to your expectations of us." Millsap continued.

Barria's proposal?

That's right, he's on a non-guaranteed contract and is one of the most likely to be cut in the preseason.

It was Millsap, it seemed that what Tang Tian said at the beginning had a great impact on him.

Tang Tian nodded, it is definitely a good thing to practice hard in the summer, healthy Yao Ming, plus them who practice hard, the rocket team in the new season will definitely be stronger than the strongest rocket in his memory, and it will be much stronger.