Chron: Rockets question whether Yaos injury is more than simply a cut

I think Yao Ming is just fine. In fact, he became the "assistant coach" of Chinese NT during the first exhibition game.

 

Look what he experienced in the regular NBA season. His injury this time isn't worse than those scratches or sprains.

 

windandsea,
As usual your photos and info comfort me.We should be contending for a long time and I just worry about Yao staying healthy.I want him in NBA shape.

 

do the chinese not believe in changing bandages or something? maybe it's just me, but every picture i've seen of yao ming has what looks to be the same bloody bandage. someone needs to tell him that a bloody bandage is a bandage waiting for infection...

 

How tall do you have to be to elbow Yao in the head?

 

Not very if Yao is bending down trying to steal your ball. (Don't laugh, you dirty people!)

 

NEWS FLASH: We DONOT trust those idiot third-world doctors in China. Plus we are the ones who invested millions in him, not China. They already get half the guys' damn money, why won't the Rockets tell them that they prefer he is here earning his salary FROM US by working out and getting better? Besides, the Chinese Gov't is a known lier and they might have said that crap about him not having a broken bone because they donot want us to get pissed and then demand his return to the USA and blame them for ruining our investment. I really do not like this deal we have with the Chinese that Yao should go there every single year, how about just making him available to them during the Olympics and the World Championships only? Anyone out there with ideas about how we should handle the damn Chinese?

 

Am kind of glad Yao will have to miss a few games. He needs a break, if you ask me.

 

All I have to say is Yao needs to think of the country and team that made him a multi-millionaire. He doesn't need to be going over there ever again to play in their crappy international league or tournaments. He needs to focus on the Rockets, practice all summer in Houston and get ready for the season.

 

Well, China is not a third world country - and despite what you may think about their doctors - they probably can read X-Rays.

China invested a decade of tireless instruction in basketball in Yao, and on the success of Yao rides the success of pretty much any future Chinese basketball player in the NBA. China has just as much to lose as the Rockets do in this equation.

Because China wants him back home fulfilling his National obligations - besides, he is following the Rocket's training regimen laast I heard.

Is Yao Ming a known liar? He too, did not report any kind of broken bone in his eye socket, which leads one to believe that any "break" is going to be incredbly minor, and easily healed by training camp.

China is Yao's home. As much as he may be comfortable in Houston, and as much as he may grow to like it - China will still be home, and he will still want to return there. Also, how are the Rockets going to forbid access to Yao during the summer?

Read what you just wrote. Do the exact opposite.

 

Sounds weird. If it's decided to hide the actual extent of Yao's injury, no doctors would tell any media about it, especially giving his surname away. That's asking for trouble. If it's not secret information, the Rockets can just pick up the phone and find out what happened. Keith Jones or someone else need to contact the Chinese directly, instead of just talking to Yao's representatives and keep us wondering.

 

Finally he changed the bandage. Yao missed the second game but he was in great mood.

 

I wish someone would tell him he's got a Post-It Note on his forehead. How embarrassing.

 

Windandsea,
Have you ever met Yao?

 

July 25, 2003, 10:39PM

Reports of Yao's injury greatly exaggerated
By JONATHAN FEIGEN
Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle

If mixing the words "fracture" and "Yao Ming" in the same sentence kept the Rocket up at night this week, they learned Friday that they could rest easy.

With so little tangible evidence that Yao had broken bones above his left eye, the Rockets really did not believe that Yao was hurt as seriously as news reports out of China on Wednesday indicated. By Friday, the reports changed.

"It's just a cut," said Xu Minfeng, a China Basketball Association spokesman. "The bone was not broken."

The cut required eight stitches to close and will keep the 7-5 center out of about a week of training and games against a team of touring United States professionals.

"I talked to Yao after it happened," John Huizinga, one of Yao's agents, said. "Erik (Zhang, another Yao agent who was in China with Yao) thought it was the funniest thing he ever heard. I read the stories to him and he just said he doesn't have anything broken.

"He's been telling me, `You can't believe what it's like here.' He said as much as (the United States media) wrote about him, it's 100 times more over there. I read him the story and he said, `This is what I was trying to explain to you.' "

Just in case, the Rockets made phone calls to check. That calmed any fears.

"John Huizinga said all along it was just stitches," Rockets vice president and trainer Keith Jones said. "When I called back the next day and read the article to him, John was surprised, but he said I didn't need to worry.

"I just assumed if he had a broken bone in his face, Erik would have called. I guess people see a face bloodied up and assume the worst."

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/sports/2013046

 

Now you know why he has to sit out for a week. He keeps scratching it!

Put your hand down, big boy!

 

If it is a minor injury, then I hope it puts him out for a couple more games.. last thing Houston needs is Yao getting a major injury while not even playing for them.. and with the whole cover up news issue, I've got one word - SARS (and I'm not meaning Shareef)

 

Maybe it's a ploy to give Yao some rest???

 

Sounds good...ploy away!

hell, lets get him to be "injured" till the second week in Oct..

 

This is the reason why he was in great mood...