Link:http://www.nba.com/rockets/ Click on practice report (1/25/06) If its been posted you know what to do with it. Yao Ming (on how he is feeling and a timetable for his return) “I’m about 80 percent right now. I just need to get my conditioning back and get ready to play and get in game shape. I’m going to see the doctor again in a few days, but I don’t think it’s going to be long.” (on what he is able to do on the floor right now) “Yeah, I can do everything without contact right now. We’re just worried about someone stepping on my toe again, and we’re also working on some custom made shoes to protect my toe.” (on being out so long) “I feel like it is almost the summer with the amount of games I have missed.”
cool, thanks.. what the hell is taking so long to get him these shoes?? The man is a multi million dollar investment.. get them to him ASAP..
If they put this Yao's steel-toed sneakers on the market.. i am gonna buy one pair and kick someone in the nuts.
Which was the main reason his toe got hurt to start with. Think about it, if you constantly land before everybody else your feet are going to be stepped on from time to time. So hopefully the toe injury will make him jump a little more often and a little higher No flame please, just a little humor
great, now people are going to want to step on his toes, and when they fall, yao is going to be called for the foul
They don't have to use steal. They have that material they can make, I can't remember the word for it. It's already used as protection for bullets etc. It's really lightwieght, and thin. But it is very strong. (kind of like plastic). Yao could use that in his shoe. I'm afraid someone will intentially stomp on Yao's toe in his first game back.
Maybe they're making his sneakers out of some kind of carbon-tube polymer so that they're protective, but light.
But I think those material will prevend penetration only, his toe will still feel most of the pressure. If someone steps on his feet intentionally, I predict Yao will do a Ron Artest on that guy, and all these Yao-is-soft-like-a-tissue-we-need-ron-artest talks will end once for all.
Well those materials may be good for preventing penetrations but I doubt they are hard enough to maintain the shape under pressures