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I just wish Yao will get a ring before he retires. Hopefully in Spurs uniform one day.
Yao Ming will wait week before surgery decision
By Henry Sanderson
Houston Rockets All-Star center Yao Ming will have to wait up to a week before he knows whether he will need surgery on his broken left foot.
The playing future of the 7-foot-6 Yao is in question amid reports from the team doctor that the hairline fracture in his foot could keep him out all of next season, and potentially end his career.
“It hasn’t been decided yet,” Yao’s agent, Eric Zhang, told The Associated Press on Friday. “He is still in the process of group consultations of doctors holding different opinions and different plans. The result of the consultations is due within a week.”
Before that there is no way of telling whether surgery will be performed, Zhang said.
“We are still in the information gathering period,” he said.
Yao sustained a hairline fracture of the tarsal navicular bone late in a May 8 playoff game against the Los Angeles Lakers. The Rockets said last week that the injury has not healed and he was out indefinitely.
Yao played in 77 regular-season games in 2008-09, his most injury-free year since 2004-05, when he played in 80. Before last season, Yao missed chunks of the previous three seasons with leg and foot injuries.
In 2006-07, Yao missed 32 games after breaking his right leg. He sustained a stress fracture in his left foot in 2007-08, underwent surgery and sat out 26 games.
Yao is due to make more than $16 million next season, with a player option for 2010-11 that would pay him more than $17 million.
I just wish Yao will get a ring before he retires. Hopefully in Spurs uniform one day.
any surgery needs to address the issue of lack of density compared to the length of his foot, plus all the weight that its holding, plus yao's terrible running form
seems like all everyones doing is addressing the symptoms without addressing the root cause
fail ming is fail.
Yao needs to just take it easy this time. Don't come back too soon and rush it. This time take some bone density drugs and make your bones thick and strong. The Rockets will tank, Pick up Chris Bosh next year and get the number one draft pick and get John Wall. Then you come back!
Go with surgery. Sit out 09/10 season. Rockets tank and obtain #1 pick in 2010 draft.
Stay the aw ay from the rockets Yao. I'm warning you.
Worked for you guys when you snatched Duncan, eh? You ended up with those 3 rings and the strike one.
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