the homerism in the this thread is pure comedy.... The guy doesn't even play! Sure we all appreciate his good morals and values but in terms of health he is in the same boat as tmac. Can't see why any body would want an aging injury prone big man anyways. If you have Yao as part of our plans in getting a championship I can't see how a magic fairy is going to make him healthy with age and how the arching foot of a 300lb man can be reconstructed to play b-ball at a high enough level.
I could care less about how many fans we have or how many Yao brings...I want a friggin championship and for my MAIN player to actually PLAY with the pieces we use to build aroud him.
I guess intense marketing will bring us a championship trophy escorted by a little pony. How on earth are you going to give his marketign capacity priority over his health...so he can actually play!
Ideally we could move TMac for Bosh and then trade Yao in some kind of three way to New York or Golden State and get a couple of unprotected number one picks and some post depth or a shooting guard. It would take a GM with real cojones to trade for Yao now though with the injury history.
Trade him so we can stop having these stupid threads. Bottomline money>championship = owner money=championship = GM championship>money = Fan Most GM or Owner is about bringing a profit. If Yao can generate more money than 15 non-star championship players. He ain't ever leaving unless he retires. We Fan's want a championship, we don't care about Money, matter of fact half of us are cheap because we watch games on free links. Guess who loses. See Clippers, they actually generate money despite how bad they are. Sterling doesn't care about championships, he would gladly showcase Yao like a freak to generate more $$$$.
Do fans win basketball games? I'm not saying we should trade Yao but we should at lease look into it and see what we can get for him his health is getting too big of a problem.
we dont get past portland without yao and we dont take game 1 against la without him (which was huge). that said, who will we get back for yao that will net us a championship? pau gasol? yeah right. we would have to go thru a lakers team of kobe, odom, artest, yao. not happening. not to mention all portland fans were talking about last year was how they were a yao ming away from winnning it all. yeah, he has had a history of injuries but you take the good with the bad. there is no other big man we can acquire with the same impact, skillset, and heart as yao that will win us a championship. whereever he is traded to we will inevitably have to go thru him. dwight howard is touted the best center in the nba but he aint leaving orlando and he is yao's b!+ch. so we can be a team with a winning record but no championship. yay... move tmac and try to get a defensive big man or scoring wing and make our run this year. if we fail to make any noise then at least we built chemistry and we can make a better run when yao returns. this is a championship team and yao is an integral part of it.
I thought of starting a simliar poll myself...Glad someone else did it. I believe if no one rushed his recovery, after significant amount of rest and rehab, Yao can be fully recovered and become his own self. I voted "Yes". I still think a 100% Yao will not have as much contribution to this Rockets team as the one coached by JVG. Coach Adelman has to refrain from his best game plays and find ways to fit with Yao's games. GM Morey is fastened by Yao's salary and his mere existence when finding/trading other players who might fit Adelman's games more. Trading Yao to a team that fits his games will be a win-win solution. If Rockets found it hard to market TMac, perhaps adding Yao as a double-decker, other teams will listen.
