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    Default Yao Ming to miss 09/10 season?

    Yao OUT for next season!

    As the NBA draft approached, the grim truth about Yao Ming’s(notes) broken left foot hung like an anvil over the Houston Rockets. The fear isn’t that he’s just lost for next season, but longer.

    The Rockets and Yao’s reps are frightened over his future, and the concern is the most base of all: Does Yao Ming ever play again?

    “The realization has hit them that this is grave,” one NBA general manager said.
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    This sucks donkey balls.

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    Default Re: Yao Ming is out for next season!

    Quote Originally Posted by niko
    This sucks donkey balls.
    Too bad for him. Is this guy Sam Bowie?

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    Terrible. Just couldn't get a break in his NBA career. Er, bad choice of words but I was always pulling for Yao. Seems like a great guy and wanted to see how he could perform in the playoffs with a good team fully healthy.

    Doesn't look like that will happen now.

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    *Waits for RocketsGreatness*

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    Default Re: Yao Ming is out for next season!

    Quote Originally Posted by Da_Realist
    Too bad for him. Is this guy Sam Bowie?
    Yeah, and that's a real shame. Might as well call it a career, he'll never be close to 100%. He's on the 'what could've been' list with Bill Walton, Grant Hill, Penny Hardaway, and now his teammate T-Mac.

    We should hold a candlelight vigil for a career that ended too soon


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    That's horrible news.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DULLAH
    WTF do they mean it broke and isn't healing ?

    In humans, when a bone breaks, the body sends calcium/minerals/vitamins and growth hormones to the area, and it heals, slower or faster, depending on the person.

    But it always heals unless they're like an 80-year old broad with osteoperosis...

    ...wtf is wrong with Yao's immune system or DNA that a broken foot won't heal ?

    yeah like you know more than Yao's doctors...

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    Quote Originally Posted by DULLAH
    WTF do they mean it broke and isn't healing ?

    In humans, when a bone breaks, the body sends calcium/minerals/vitamins and growth hormones to the area, and it heals, slower or faster, depending on the person.

    But it always heals unless they're like an 80-year old broad with osteoperosis...

    ...wtf is wrong with Yao's immune system or DNA that a broken foot won't heal ?
    I think it has something to do with the fact hes over 7'5.

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    Someone needs to clean up this thread.

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    Hopefully this is a rumor and it looks like it from the way I see it. I won't believe it until it hits the news, not from this Yahoo Sports Idiot. Until the Houston Rockets GM and the entire team comments on it, I will just speculate this as a rumor.

    But at the moment I am speechless.

    It also makes sense why the Rockets are trying to get Rubio, they are tearing this team apart.

    Along with this I will have to say this is terrible news. But hopefully it is all speculation at this point. Never liked Adrian's articles on Yahoo Sports. But seeing that Yahoo Sports works throughout the world and not just the USA, he would lose all his credibility in a nano-second.

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    Wow this guy has known nothing but never living up to his potential...injuries have plagued him and mcgrady. just imagine if the both of them were healthy...but yeah he is now on the list of what could have beens...pretty sad actually

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    Default Re: Yao Ming is out for next season!

    Assuming this is true and Yao will in fact miss all of next season, there are four parties responsible for this tragedy:

    The laws of physics and human biology. Gravity and Yao's unnatural size just did not allow him to stay healthy consistently, and he now appears to have worn down entirely.

    The Chinese government for forcing Yao to play on their national team during the off-season. Looks like you killed the golden-egg laying goose, and for what? Making the Olympic basketball tournament only to be bounced in the first elimination game every time?

    The Houston Rockets for never getting a backup center who could reduce Yao's minutes. 40 year old Dikembe doesn't count. Basically they played him too many minutes.

    Yao himself for agreeing to play for the Chinese national team every damn off-season, and for not demanding that the Rockets find a way to reduce his minutes.





    I guess we won't ever have to hear Rocketsgreatness spewing his bull**** about Yao being better than Dwight when healthy anymore, because what most of us already realized is now painfully clear: Yao is never going to be consistently healthy again. Dwight on the other hand is an ironman, a dominant rebounder and defensive presence, and still has a lot of potential to expand his offensive game.

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    Default Re: Yao Ming to miss 09/10 season?

    So who's going to be China's national icon now?

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