Live Bar, March 5th news recently, NBA celebrity McGrady talked about the experience of the rocket period in the program League Biz.
McGrady said: “Yao Ming was injured in 2008. We entered the playoffs and we were going to play jazz. We played 6 games with them. My last 40-point game was G6. From G1 to G6, I had to give knee injections in every game.”
In the 06-07 season, the Rockets defeated jazz in the first round of the playoffs and were reversed and promoted by their opponents. In the offseason, the team introduced new coach aldman, under his leadership, with McGrady, the Rockets led by Yao Ming played an amazing performance in the regular season of The 07-08 season. In the regular season, they even won 22 consecutive victories, which once rose from the tenth in the West to the first in the West.
In the first round of the playoffs against the old rival jazz, DeLong’s breakthrough, Boozer’s CIC and Kirilenko’s defense made the rockets lacking Yao Ming suffer a lot; Although McGrady was injured in the battle, before the G6 series, he forced out his knee fluid and played a closed needle. He got 40 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists, but he still couldn’t make up for the gap between the two teams. Finally, the total score of the rockets was 2-4 against the Jazz, for the second year in a row, he was eliminated by jazz in the first round.