BREAKING: Yao has stress fracture in left ankle (related to previous injury)

Your'e balaiming the organzation for Yao being so wobbly???

Thats pretty effin' weak

 

Yao Ming - 17M expiring contract.

 

Sad news for Yao. Good news is that the team can now move forward.

 

No. He's out forever.

 

Can the Rockets file for another exemption to have Yao's salary off the books like last year?

 

I wonder if the MRI will reveal a strange eating utensil protruding from his body.

 

wtf yao. im sick and tired of *****.

 

Bye Yao we had a good run..


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Martin for Thabeet and Mayo anyone?

We get younger (including a young center) and cheaper contracts..

 

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Sad about Yao

with that being said Les can no longer use him as a cash cow and compromise putting up a winning team (which requires expanding payroll) like the past few years.

Time to move on and start new.

 

Made in (of) China.

 

This. Rox and Yao now have direction...very cold to say but reality. This opens up tons of possibilities that the team did not have before.

 

If this is truly the end, isn't it ironic that the franchise's two saviors ended up with a parallel exit.

 

So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

~ Robert Frost (longtime Rockets fan)

 

I do wonder if Yao playing with a 24 minute cutoff was a compromise between the medical people and management. Might the doctors have recommended that Yao sit out, and the Rockets decided to play him with the limit?

There was clearly a very good reason to impose a strict limit on his playing time. But the Rockets were playing with fire to have him out on the court at all.

 

Les doesn't want to spend money, what are they going to do with an exception thats only useable for this year?

 

I knew this would happen, told people not to get overly excited knowing that yaos leg is basically glass. Here we go again...

 

Interesting, it worked for Oden and Haslem...good catch.