China Newsweek: For the Beijing Olympics, the Basketball Association once went to the United States to ask the Rockets to take care of Yao Ming s health

July 17th, China News Weekly published an article titled "Yang Hansen, should you come back to play the Asian Cup? 》 article. The article talks about some things about Yao Ming.

The article reads: "Looking back on Yao Ming's basketball career, his career must not only play in high-intensity NBA events, but also return to the Chinese men's basketball team in the summer. In the end, Yao Ming was overwhelmed by his 2.26-meter body and decided to retire after being injured many times, leaving a lot of regrets.

"China News Weekly learned that in order to achieve excellent results in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the then senior executive of the Chinese Basketball Association made a special trip to the United States to meet with the senior executives of the Houston Rockets, and beg the Rockets to take good care of Yao Ming's health and treat his playing time scientifically.

"But later, the senior management of the Chinese Basketball Association discovered that the Houston Rockets, both the management and the coaching staff, had only verbal promises of "politeness", but in actual combat, Yao Ming played more than 35 or even 40 minutes in high loads. According to statistics from the official NBA website, in the 2007-2008 season, Yao Ming averaged 37.2 minutes per game, the longest of his career. In order to adapt to the NBA level confrontation, Yao Ming also gained 7 kilograms compared to when he first entered the NBA."