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

Dear Yao Ming,

Houston has been very good to you. Please reciprocate by announcing your retirement from the team very soon. The organization is reluctant to be seen as letting you go. Please do it for them. Thank you.

 

what a ****ing word？ YAO will back ，but not in Rockets ，the damn Rockets ...
Blessing YAo!!!

 

Dumb, dumb, dumb... Yao is in his last year. The Rockets don't have to sign him again. If they do it will be at a low dollar contract. Yao is no longer the future but if he comes back on the cheap he may still help. The key is Yao Ming is no longer the focal point of this franchise. As long as management understands that then whether Yao retires or not is irrelevant.

 

The Rockets doctors are all a bunch of hacks. He never should have had surgery in the first place. Surgery for his injury is entirely optional and it is absolutely crazy to have surgery for that injury if you are a basketball player at his size.

All he had to do was rest the foot the first time and it would have 100% healed on its own.

 

DD is a world expert on every subject in his own mind.

 

C'mon seriously? Yes we didn't win a championship with Yao, but calling it a tragic chapter in Rockets basketball is a lil far fetched. I've been reading posts that wish Yao the best, and posts that pretty much kick the guy down. As a fan of the sport and especially the rockets, let's enjoy what we saw.

And if Yao gets healthy, does not retire, and willing to take a pay cut and come off the bench... a 7'6 center coming off the bench... who wouldn't want that?

 

Not surprising but very disappointing. Thanks Yao for the heart and the hope but an injury related to the previous one this is probably it.

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Tired of being right about this guy. Great heart, no body to match.

It's been too gut-wrenching to be a fan for the past few years and just wait for him to get hurt again. Sometimes I wonder if my fan-dom will ever return to the levels it was at. I just couldn't take it anymore.

 

[Appreciation Letter]

You can look at this thread alone to see what Yao meant to the Rockets. So many emotionally charged posts for good and for bad. Yao has been the leader, face, and hope of this team for a decade. I think we can all agree that he was spectacular at times and had, if not labored by injury, a hall of fame career. I still think he should be a HOF player if only for his impact on the inauguration of basketball to the international stage.

What we have to keep in mind is that not only has the Rockets organization put its patience, pride, and championship hopes into Yao's career, Yao has put his whole professional basketball career into the Rockets organization. From his willingness to choose some NBA team in Texas over his role as the Chinese international superstar, to having his first child in USA with the burning glares of all the Chinese officials on the back of his head, to his willingness to comply with any surgery/rehab that the Rockets were (are) willing to put on his already battered body risking his future mobility. Yao has always responded only with a willingness to give everything he has to the Rockets.

We have to respect this attitude by the big fella and its only right to honor his future as an ambassador of basketball and a father with gratitude to what he gave for the potential success of some team in Texas.

Wether many of us will admit it or not, we all love you Yao Ming for what you have sacrificed for this time, and we will stand by you in whatever path you choose to take as a man.

Thank you sincerely for the memories.
Trevor

 

^This, Yao doesnt need to sever all ties with the Rockets, there's no need for that. As long as the Yao Ming-as-the-focal-point era is over, we will welcome him with open arms with a small contract or part of the coaching staff.

And if after another year, he can get back on the court again, I'm sure no one here will refuse his service

 

what a sad heartbreak for a genuinely nice person

 

Please at least know what you're talking about before you make yourself look like a fool. Yao had surgery on his foot because it WASN'T healing.

 

Source that please. If you have an MD and you're drawing from your own experience please attach your cv instead. This just wreaks of random conjecture with no basis.

 

It wasn't healing, but even if it did it would have happened AGAIN. That was the point of having surgery. If we were talking about a businessman who tripped and fractured his bone, then letting it heal is enough because it was likely a one time cause and not likely to fracture again if all he does is sit in an office. That's not the case here. Yao is an athlete who's constantly on his feet. He needed the surgery to change his aligment and try to keep the fractures from happening over and over.

 

FYI, Morey and Walter Lowe will hold a press conference today at 4 to discuss Yao. Per Rockets' media relations.

 

Thanks Cat, I was waiting to see when we might here from Morey and the meds at Toyota Center.

 

What is there really to say?

I think it's gonna go something like this:

"The extent of Yao's injury is still being investigated... We feel that we need to contact some specialists in this area... This appears to be an aggregation of the injury Yao suffered a year ago... Currently we are just waiting to get more facts about this injury before we make an major decisions... Donnie Walsh recently sent me a picture message of him pointing and laughing, I'm not sure what he is referencing or what he's trying to say... All will be well in the Red Nation, so says Morey the Great, Seacrest out."

Well all except the back end of that speech...

 

Big difference between hoping and arrogantly asserting. Big difference. I hoped Yao would come back and score 42 PPG. However, I didn't predict this, and I didn't diss anyone who disagreed.

You kept predicting Yao would "be fine" and that he'd recover from his injury just like Big Z did; when others disagreed and predicted (correctly, I might add) that his fragile glass body would disintegrate yet again, you resisted - quite vehemently - their point of view as a reasonable one.

Now you're too proud (slash pigheaded slash amnestic) to cop to your absurdly arrogant predictions. This is not about admitting being wrong - we've all been there - but about not trashing those who disagree with your point of view, especially when they turn out to be right!

(Since you asked, I'm older than you, and balder, but not as fat.)

 

I'm a doc who deals with a lot of sports injuries and, um, the navicular is close to the medial malleolus. Dunno that that proves these injuries are related, though.

 

I blame Dr. Tom Clanton.

The history of this guy's mis-diagnoses is just incredible!

All the who know's? and what if's? But ultimately, if this stress fracture is related to the foot, then it is imho, preventable if it were indeed caught early enough. Besides which, how does an

Ankle Sprain

become a

Bone Bruise

to

Stress Fracture???

Short of a bum doctor who bottom line should have said, "I don't know. I simply don't know. So let's consult another doctor?" In all humility.



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