This man speaks the truth! (plus we were hopelessly hoping the injuries were a fluke. By the time we realized they weren't we couldn't trade Yao for a bag of chips.)
Bad business decision to trade Yao bc of the insurance and the marketability of Yao. Also what do you think one could get for an injury proned player?
Because you couldn't have gotten fair value if he was healthy, and couldn't trade an injured player. Next question.
You're starting too many threads... some of them already exist. Try to contribute to other threads and you'll get back thread-starting ability.
This was it exactly. The Rockets would have been crazy to trade Yao for 50 cents on the dollar when he was healthy and dominant. And when Yao was injured, no other team would given up anything of value to take on a $20 million injured player. Yao was a unique case where he was either a dominant superstar, or he was not playing at all. No in-between. Catch-22 situation. What are you gonna do? At least he retired, so the Rockets are not stuck with his salary clogging the works, like they were with an on-again, off-again McGrady.
He was never going to wear another jersey, that was kind of the point. He was an expiring contract, if they could have traded him to a team looking for cap relief and in need of money (Phoenix cough cough), then maybe we could have gotten some value out of his last couple of years, other than filling the coffers of the Rockets organization. DD
Well he was never gonna come back to haunt us if he was traded. So getting something pretty decent for him at least would have been nice. Morey has more excuses for everything being out of his hand than criminals in prison. I think at some point people wont care if everytime somethings doesnt happen for Morey its because he couldnt control circumstances and bad luck excuses for long. That gravy train of an excuse is running kind of low now.
What a waste Yao and TMAC turned out to be. sigh. Surprised, the latter is the one still playing and contributing in the NBA today.
