The Godfather of Basketball

"Coach, congratulations."

Tang Tian heard a familiar voice and looked up to see that it was Kobe.

At this moment, some fans noticed an unprecedented scene on the sidelines.

When the American team came out, they didn't go directly to the podium, but came to Tang Tian at the same time, and first went to express their congratulations to him!

As the coach of the NBA champion and two consecutive championships, these stars have full respect for Tang Tian. Now that they have brought the Chinese men's basketball team to this level, they came to congratulate him with admiration.

This unprecedented scene was recorded by many fans with their mobile phones.

The US team arrived in Taiwan one after another, and the Lithuanian team also arrived late.

When the members of the three teams stood behind the podium one after another, TV stations in more than 200 countries began to broadcast it immediately.

The scene began to introduce the award presenters.

International Olympic Games honorary chairman Juan Antonio Samaranch, member Patrick Bowman and other guests were introduced one after another.

After this introduction, the scene began to focus on the Chinese team.

"The Chinese team won the men's basketball bronze medal in the 2008 Olympic Games!"

Because it is his home stadium, the host introduced as much as possible when he introduced it. When he said this sentence, the scene immediately exploded.

Cheers, shouts, whistles, one after another!

The players of the Chinese men's basketball team held hands and jumped onto the podium, raising their hands high towards all the audience in Wukesong.

At this time, the accompaniment of the national anthem sounded.

Because they are not champions, they do not have the right to play the national anthem during the flag-raising ceremony, but they do have the right to present awards.

The familiar accompaniment is not familiar anymore. At this time, there is no need for anyone to take the lead. The audience all began to sing the national anthem.

The majestic momentum stunned the players of the US team and the Lithuanian team.

It wasn't until Samaranch and the others walked up to the players to present the awards that the sound of the scene became quieter.

"No. 4, Chen Jianghua."

As the guests awarded the gold medals to the players, the on-site host began to read the names of the winners, followed by a burst of cheers.

12 players, each of them is very familiar with.

"Number 9, Sun Yue."

When Sun Yue's name was read, the decibels of the whole scene suddenly increased by another dimension.

Sun Yue kissed the medal, then excitedly lifted the medal into the air.

In this Olympics, Sun Yue, as the main point guard, averaged 12.2 points, 2.4 rebounds, 4.5 assists, 1.9 blocks and 1.7 steals per game.

"Number 11, Yi Jianlian."

Sun Yue was followed by Yi Jianlian, and the cheers on the scene continued unabated.

Although the performance in the previous game was not particularly impressive, but in the most critical bronze medal match, he scored a team-high 23 points, 7 rebounds and 3 blocks, playing the strongest battle in the Olympics.

"Number 13, Yao Ming."

When Yao Ming was introduced, the entire Wukesong sound wave reached a climax.

Yao Ming is the absolute core of this Chinese team and also the support point of Tang Tian's tactical system.

In 8 games, Yao Ming averaged 17.6 points, 9.7 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 2.1 blocks per game, and his shooting percentage was 62%. Because of the outstanding performance of role players such as Sun Yue, Yi Jianlian and Liu Wei, his average points per game were much less than previous years, but Anyone who has watched the game knows his importance.

"Congratulations, Yao." It wasn't the first day Samaranch knew Yao Ming, and when he presented the medal to him, he gave him a slight hug.

Feeling the enthusiasm from the fans, Yao Ming kept waving to the audience.

After Yao Ming, other team members were introduced one after another. When Liu Wei arrived, there was once again warm cheers from the scene.

As a veteran of the Olympic Games, he averaged 10.6 points and 3.2 assists in this game, which is the team's third scoring point and played exceptionally well.

After everyone put on their medals and received flowers, the team members uniformly raised their medals and flowers above their heads.

The cheers at the scene lasted for a long time.

After the Chinese team, the Lithuanian team and the US team both received their medals.

The members of the American team were very excited. The 12 members also performed a set of roaring movements of the primitive tribes of the Americas, with smiles on their faces all the time.

In the slow American national anthem, the national flags belonging to the gold, silver and bronze medals were raised slowly.

Although the American national anthem was played at the scene, many people sang the March of the Volunteers in their hearts.

The bright red flag appeared for the first time in the basketball game, and everyone's face was full of pride.

At the end of the award ceremony, the team members got the national flag and began to take photos in front of the reporters.

But in the meantime, they went to pull Tang Tian and other members of the coaching staff over.

This is their medal, but also belongs to the coaching staff.

After posing for some photos, and after Sun Yue yelled, all the team members took off the medals around their necks, and quickly hung them on Tang Tian's neck one by one.

Tang Tian didn't react for a while, and when he recovered, there were already heavy 12 medals hanging around his neck.

Well, the neck is a little tired.

At this moment, all the team members ran in front of him, formed a semicircle hand in hand, and stood in front of him.

"Worship the boss!"

I don't know where Sun Yue learned the Internet language. After shouting at this moment, all the team members bowed to him.

Tang Tian was caught off guard, and then couldn't help laughing.

Because of his age, although his coaching style in the national team is very strict, the players did not feel distanced from him. let go.

This scene stunned the reporters on the sidelines. After they realized it, they took various pictures.

A classic Olympic Games has a classic way of celebrating, and it is destined to be a classic among classics.

The award ceremony came to an end, and the journey of this men's basketball team is almost over.

According to the past practice, for such a good result, the leaders of the basketball association will definitely have dinner with them, and there will be extra rewards and so on.

For these, Tang Tian asked Guo Shiqiang to take the team members there.

It has been almost 2 months since he left the Rockets.

That's not a long offseason, but long enough for his job.

And in two weeks Hathaway has a big runway show to attend in Dubai, which is also very important to her personally, Tang Tian also has to go there.

On the second day after the awards ceremony, Tang Tian took his two assistant coaches on the plane back to Houston.

Looking at the distant city, his Olympic journey has come to an end, but his journey with the Rockets in the new season has just begun.