257. Coach, could you align with the management on the style?_2

Until this summer when the Rockets were again knocked out in the first round, and the Bobcats unexpectedly clinched the championship, with Zhang Yang earning Second Team and Finals MVP honors, Yao Ming fiercely requested a transfer, rejecting the basketball association's demand for him to stay with the Rockets. The association's propaganda that touted the 'superiority of our player development system' and the lie that 'the CBA is the second-best basketball league in the world'—especially after the Argentina Team won the Olympic gold in 2004 and the Spanish team won the World Championship—were exposed. Public opinion was in uproar, and the association had no choice but to reach out to Zhang Yang.

What followed was three months of negotiations between Tellem and the basketball association.