NBA: The best team doctor in history

Chapter 95: Three generals join the battle, Roy returns!

"Oh, I forgot to ask, what's the problem with white chocolate elbow?"

"He said that he fell and hurt himself while picking up soap in the shower a while ago. It was a serious injury, and he has almost recovered now."

"It's normal for a tattooed guy to have an immoral private life, but it's OK as long as he behaves professionally on the court."

Since Bai Qiao has no problem with the review, let's rush to Los Angeles. After all, the Trail Blazers are playing games every day, and the sooner we get it done, the sooner we can get used to it.

White Chocolate, who heard the news, came over with a big bag before Jiang Ming and the others set off, signaling that they wanted to join him:
"I'll help you recruit. Maggette and I are pretty familiar with each other, and he'll be interested when he sees me."

"Okay, after all, who doesn't want a point guard like you?"

McGowan nodded and bought a plane ticket to Los Angeles for White Chocolate.

Only Jiang Ming noticed Bai Chocolate's other thoughts. It seemed that Bai Chocolate was addicted to Jiang Ming's massage and wanted to take advantage of these few days to have a good treatment.

Los Angeles.

The Clippers vs. Warriors game is about to begin.

Jiang Ming and the other two were also watching in the box.

Maggette is actually a very distinctive individual. He was probably one of the first few players to wear long arm guards. With a headband, he is one of those players who loves all the equipment.

But how should I put it, I always feel like he is a blue-collar forward. Although he scored 23 points in this game, it felt like he didn't score that many points. He is indeed a player with a natural lack of presence.

And they lost to the Warriors by a large margin in the end. The Clippers were a mess from top to bottom and were no match for the Lakers next door.

Maggette and Brand have rarely achieved results since becoming the Clippers' offensive twin stars. Both players have the ability to score 20+ points per game, but neither has the ability to lead the team to victory.

So both of them were put on the shelf, and for the Trail Blazers, Maggette is definitely more cost-effective.

It's only 700 million. Not to mention how much it would cost to renew the contract, it's enough for him to work as a temporary worker until the end of the season.

McGowan also told Jiang Ming what the scout team thought:

"Overall, Maggette can get good statistics on a weak team, but it is difficult for him to become an outstanding leader on a strong team. However, as the second or third offensive core of a team, Maggette is still fully capable of doing so."

Jiang Ming understood:
"Well, so he is more suitable for our Trail Blazers. We have Roy and Ade as our two first-choice offensive points. It is very suitable for him to defend and attack."

White Chocolate also nodded:
"Yes! It would be better for a player like this to focus on catching the ball."

After the game, the three of them met Maggette in the office of Clippers general manager Logoman. When he limped in, McGowan was startled, wondering if he had different legs again.

Logoman is also an old fox, but he is more humane than Riley. He told Maggette last week that the team might trade him.

With the situation like this with the head coach, one of them has to leave, and in Logoman's plan, even Brand won't be kept, let alone Maggette.

Maggette, who has the player option, can choose to stay with the team or opt out of the contract, so he also said that he can be traded but cannot be traded to a weaker team.

He wants to play in the playoffs so much!

"Pioneers can!"

Maggette was much happier when he heard that the visitor was from the Trail Blazers' management. Everyone knows that the Trail Blazers now have a pure young lineup, but how did the Heat's White Chocolate appear here?

"White Chocolate is already our player and there will be news tomorrow."

Maggette clapped his hands happily and became even happier:

"Then we're guaranteed a spot in the playoffs! OK, I agree!"

"Don't worry yet!"

McGowan waved his hands quickly. Maggette's shaky walking posture just now made him feel worried, so he signaled Jiang Ming to go up and take a look.

Jiang Ming also smiled and said:

"I'm the director of the medical department. Can I check on your health?"

Maggette hesitated for a moment and said hesitantly:
"Okay, I've been doing a lot of dunks lately and my knees have been sore."

As a result, Jiang Ming discovered that he had bone spurs on his left knee and ankle. The biggest reason for his glass attributes was that his calves were too thin, and he was not training his legs when he was exercising.

But these are minor problems. One is that Maggette is still young and can just train his calf muscles.

As for bone spurs, conservative treatment with traditional Chinese medicine can be used.

After Jiang Ming asked Maggette, Maggette admitted that he did feel pain in his ankle from time to time, and was worried that the team would think he was a glass man, so he didn't say much after joining the Clippers.

How could he not be honest? This Trail Blazers team doctor is so good. He can accurately feel the pain point of his bone spur with just a touch of his hand. His expression will not lie.

So he told him everything directly. He just wanted to be present for the full game this season, so sometimes when he was in pain, he didn't tell the team medical staff that he was in pain. At most, he did physical therapy.

Although an MRI scan revealed bone spurs between the joints last season, he insisted on not undergoing surgical treatment. The chief team doctor also felt that there was no need for a knee resurfacing surgery, so he agreed to use conservative treatment.

Sometimes when you feel pain, you can take anti-inflammatory painkillers, such as ibuprofen, to relieve the pain.

After acute pain, ultrashort wave electrotherapy, infrared therapy, etc. are used to relieve his pain.

This is the right thing to do. These Western medical treatments directly act on the bone spurs in the ankle to relieve pain.

However, this is an irresponsible act of treating the symptoms instead of the root cause. It is estimated that the Clippers' medical staff also knows that this year is Maggette's contract year and he will leave the team, so it doesn't really matter whether he has surgery or not, and the problem can be left to the next team.

I just didn’t expect that the next club was so awesome that they directly brought a team doctor to check.

This time it could not be concealed, which gave the Trail Blazers a lot more bargaining chips.

Didn’t you see that Logoman’s expression was gloomy? It would have been fine if the team medical staff didn’t report the matter to him, but Maggette even told it all in front of the Trail Blazers. How could he ask for a price?

If he doesn't have a black face, there will be no ghost.

McGowan: "Sir, let's talk."

"alright."

Fortunately, both sides are quite sincere. The Clippers traded Maggette, one of the twin stars, to let the team play badly and prepare to compete for the No. 1 pick after being ranked last.

The Trail Blazers wanted to strengthen their front line, and Jiang Ming made it clear that he could treat it, so they hit it off.

开拓者付出的筹码是22岁的05年次轮秀控卫沃恩-韦弗+21岁的后卫赛尔吉奥-罗德里格斯，这两人都是开拓者培养了2-3年没培养出来的。

Now that we need to produce results, these two people are naturally abandoned.

Even the great God Jack is not wanted, let alone these two people.

This made Jiang Ming sigh about the law of the jungle in the NBA. He personally felt a little reluctant because they were pulled up from the Development League and had only played a few games and learned the Five Animal Exercises from him, but they were traded.

In this current transaction scene, they are just names.

The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit, it's the same everywhere.

But just two fringe young players are definitely not enough. After contacting Larry Miller, McGowan gave the Trail Blazers the last chip.

2011 first-round draft pick.

Jiang Ming immediately understood why it was the draft pick three years later. The Trail Blazers were preparing to make every effort to improve their performance while Roy and Oden were still on their rookie contracts.

By 2011, the Trail Blazers trident was definitely formed, so as the team's performance improved and the draft pick moved down the list, it would not be that important anymore.

Originally, McGowan wanted to talk about this year's draft pick. After all, they couldn't train enough rookies in the past few years, but he was rejected immediately by Logoman.

Everyone knows that you want White Chocolate + Maggette to improve your record, and the draft position of the playoff team is even less important.

It’s better to bet on the future!

That is, two role players + a future first-round pick in exchange for Maggette's remaining contract with the Clippers.

Whether Maggette signs with the Trail Blazers in advance or the Trail Blazers let him go depends on how Maggette's team negotiates with the Trail Blazers, and has nothing to do with the Clippers.

The Clippers have already given Maggette's contract, which has less than half a season left, to the Trail Blazers!

When logoman West shook hands with Jiang Ming at the end, he also expressed his desire to visit our team medical team.

They said they were their team doctors, but in fact they were all the Lakers' physical therapy equipment. The two teams shared the Staples Center, and Logoman wanted to use the Lakers' luxurious medical equipment to attract Jiang Ming. But in fact, Jiang Ming knew everything.

The last time Roy's knee bled was here. Later, Thomas Reese used the Lakers' best physical therapy device to relieve Roy's knee pain a lot.

Thinking of this, Jiang Ming asked West if he could borrow it so that Maggette could do some final physical therapy before he got on the plane.

These high-end devices should not be wasted.

"Yes, but it must be done under the supervision of our team doctor."

After all, this is Lakers equipment, and Logoman doesn't want to have anything to do with the Lakers.

"OK."

Because there are no traditional Chinese medicine equipment here, we can only use Western medicine physiotherapy. Jiang Ming also wants to see how awesome the Lakers' physiotherapy is, which can be considered a learning experience.

This is much more fun than those exchange and study groups, as you can get started yourself.

Go tech!

After communicating with the Clippers' chief team doctor, Jiang Ming first injected the Lakers' special sodium hyaluronate into the joint cavities of Maggette's knees and ankles. It mainly played the role of lubricating the knee joints and can alleviate local symptoms.

The chief team doctor was horrified because Jiang Ming performed the whole process personally. He only saw Maggette today and gave the injection without even seeing his imaging?
McGowan next to him was also frightened. He was really afraid that something like bleeding would happen again.

If this really happens, Jiang Ming will be the next Yan Sen. Is he so unstable before he even has the position of director firmly established?
But while Jiang Ming was thinking about it, he had already finished the vaccination. He heard that the two shots cost 2000 US dollars, and he also wanted to see the effect. Anyway, the Clippers paid for it, so it was a small benefit for the Trail Blazers.

Later, when McGowan went to sign a trade contract with Logoman and other management matters, Jiang Ming took Maggette to do medium-frequency and electromagnetic therapy.

After the treatment, Maggette's bone spurs disappeared completely. He said:
"If my muscles weren't still sore, it would feel like I didn't play tonight."

Jiang Ming stretched out his arms:

"Then the lactic acid accumulation in your muscles will also disappear."

"what?"

Before Maggette knew what Jiang Ming was going to do, Jiang Ming's hand clamped on his calf muscle like a pair of pliers:
"Chinese massage, start!"

"Ahhh~~~Is it so cool?"

"If I had told you that the physiotherapy at the Trail Blazers was so comfortable, I would have joined the Trail Blazers two years ago!"

Jiang Ming:

"Excuse me, I was in China two years ago."

Maggette closed his eyes in comfort:

"Oh, if you had come two years earlier, the pioneers wouldn't have taken off."

"Brother, you're talking like I'm going to play basketball. Stop talking and just enjoy yourself."

"Director Jiang, my arm hurts too. I got bruised from the beating today."

"Go back to Portland and let Sean apply safflower oil to you."

After successfully completing a trade with the Clippers in Los Angeles, Jiang Ming parted ways with the rest of the Trail Blazers.

Because he was going to Spain alone.

In Spain, Fernandez warmly entertained Jiang Ming because he wanted to come to the NBA so much.

After being selected by the Suns last year, he thought he could play in the NBA, but he was unexpectedly exiled. The Trail Blazers asked him to continue playing in the European League after the Summer League.

This made Rudy very uncomfortable. He has been winning various honors this year in an effort to get the Trail Blazers' attention again.

But who doesn’t have an NBA dream?

Therefore, after knowing that the Trail Blazers had sent someone to investigate him, Fernandez directly treated Jiang Ming to the best of his ability. He invited Jiang Ming to watch a bullfight, eat Spanish empanadas and the most famous Tapas.

During the chat, Jiang Ming also discovered that Rudy was very competitive. He didn't care about the many strong opponents in the NBA, he just did it!

He wanted to become a national idol like Gasol, and also wanted to enter the NBA before Rubio, so he trained very hard, and when he showed his skills to Jiang Ming, he gave his all in every move.

However, Jiang Ming said:
"I'm not a scout. There's no need to show off your training results. Just lie down and do your best."

"Oh, that's it."

Fernandez naturally knew Jiang Ming's name. As an "extra staff member" of the Trail Blazers, he was always paying attention to the situation of the Trail Blazers. Naturally, he also hoped that the veterinary team would fall. When Jiang Ming took office as director, he even tweeted to celebrate.

But the reason why he showed his basketball skills in front of Jiang Ming was also to gain extra points in Jiang Ming's heart. After all, he could fly and his physical fitness was no worse than that of black people, and he also had a good shooting skill.

However, Jiang Ming was fair when examining Fernandez and did not give any extra points for personal connections.

The main reason is that there is no need to add extra points. Fernandez really has no injury history. The young man is strong and healthy, much better than White Chocolate and Maggette we saw before.

He is 1.98 meters tall and weighs 84 kilograms, which is not bad. He has a wide frame, but he is the type that cannot gain weight. In other words, he will look like this when he follows the NBA's training and diet system, a lean and strong type.

Moreover, he has very good genes. Rudy was born into a Spanish basketball family. Both his parents are former players of the Joventut club. His sister is one of the most talented female basketball players in Spain and is currently a main player of the Spanish women's national basketball team.

So he has done very well in sports protection since he was young, and now he is healthy all over, so he just needs to go play basketball.

Therefore, Jiang Ming also pressed his whole body, and when he saw that Rudy had no pain points, he quickly informed the management:

"Oh, all three of us are OK this time."

"OK!"

Larry Miller was very happy after receiving the news. He was afraid that another old patient would be brought in. He felt relieved after hearing Jiang Ming's words.

Fernandez was even happier. He almost jumped up when he knew he was recalled and would soon get a three-year, $3 million rookie contract.

That night, he took Jiang Ming to Madrid to watch the best striptease show. Of course, Jiang Ming was not treated to any wine. After the show, they had a simple meal at a Michelin restaurant and prepared to return to Portland together the next day.

Now Jiang Ming is Rudy Fernandez's direct leader, so he dare not act rashly.

What if Jiang Ming is a conservative guy and his face changes immediately when he sees him ordering wine?
After all, NBA athletes are absolutely not allowed to drink alcohol during the regular season and playoffs. Although I haven't signed the contract yet, it's better not to drink.

Jiang Ming originally wanted to say that you are happy today and you can drink a little if you want. This is just like when he first got the team doctor contract, the sense of accomplishment is self-evident.

But seeing that he is so self-disciplined, it is true that Rudy should play directly for the team next time, and it would be bad if drinking affected his condition.

“I wish you success in our team!”

"Thank you, JIANG! You are the first pioneer member to come to Spain to contact me. Thank you so much for coming and thank you for your recognition. Let's work hard together!"

"Don't worry, you are such a great player, you will have your own place in the world."

Jiang Ming clinked glasses with him using juice instead of wine, and Fernandez burst into tears. Finally, he could stand on the battlefield of the NBA!
Soon, news spread that the Trail Blazers had made two new trades and three new players during the All-Star Weekend.

《Maggetty, White Chocolate, Rudy Fernandez join the Portland Trail Blazers! 》

《The pioneers must do something big! 》

"Filling in the vacancies left by Blake and Joel's injuries! The Trail Blazers make big moves in the free market!"

There were doubts and support, and @姜明 asked him that White Chocolate and Maggette were old patients, and whether the Trail Blazers had become an asylum.

Even Oden sent a private message to ask Jiang Ming:
"Can these two be cured to their peak condition?"

"Keep it simple."

"Wow, that means we've secured a spot in the playoffs!" When Oden told everyone in the locker room the news, everyone was shocked. Just kidding, peak Jason Williams + Maggette, how awesome would that be!
After 2 days.

Jiang Ming brought Fernandez back to the team, and Fernandez signed the contract as soon as possible.

Since then, three new players have officially joined the Trail Blazers!
The group photos were all taken together, and the old, middle-aged and young people were all filled with happy smiles. Everyone knows that the young Big Three of the Trail Blazers are in great momentum now.

The main reason is that Jiang Ming also released a message from the medical department as soon as he returned to the team:
"Roy can come back!"

(End of this chapter)