Most people who advocate trading Yao now, love what he brings to the team. The problem is injuries. He can't stay healthy. Yes he is the focal point of the team, but he ALWAYS gets hurt. I say trade him now because his trade value will drop every year he plays and gets injured. If Yao could stay healthy, then I don't believe anyone would be making threads about trading him.
well you are going to have to deal with the fact that the people who have this information and can verify it for you don't give a s*it if you understand it or not.
And you know what is really strange is that this whole thread started because Yao's injury is only slow to heal. it:s not like he was injured again (or re-injured)...just that the current treatrment didn't work so far. you all act like he went out and was injured again after a comeback try. this is the same injury. get the right med involvement (because obviously we don't have it) and let's get the guy back no if that is done and he gets hurt again...then we have something to talk about
Yao will not be traded. The Rockets need to sign Artest and trade TMac. Yao should be given one more season and if it does not work out then maybe a snt should be in the works. I am for the Rockets to win a Championship not rooting for one single player but the Team.
slow could be not healed at all. just that the pain has gone away b/c he hasn't put any pressure on the foot. the point is it's been 6 weeks and the healing process is only supposed to take 8 weeks. this injury could linger and when he plays again, it could lead to another injury or worsen this. that's the concern.
TIme to end the fantasy I started a thread about a week and a half ago about trading Yao and of course there were a bunch of homers that went nuts and said how trading Yao would have been the most crazy stupid idea. I went on and on and said how he would go down for the season. Then what happened just a few days to a week later? An announcement that Yao was out for the season and possibly his career. Once again, this was obvious. Lex Alexander and Morey failed big time by wanting to latch on to this guy that is very overrated. He's been hurt the last few seasons and now he couldn't even make it to the season. Then even now I still see people mentioningg things like "wait until Yao comes back." Amazing, how any fans out there could still have some form of confidence in Yao Ming. He's never been that great of a player and he's down for the 4th season now where we'll be wasting a ton of money on him while he does nothing from the bench. When are people going to end this fantasy that Yao Ming was going to be some superstar player and stop reverting back to this "Wait until next year" and "wait until he comes back from injury" nonsense. Latching onto Yao has now made our GM go into a complete rebuild mode and this way of thinking with Yao Ming has now put our franchise back a few years. When will the owner and fans learn that Yao Ming has never been anything great and never will be and will always be hurt off and on? Let it go. The Yao Ming experiment has been a failure.
I agree for the most part but there's probably a 10 threads that say this generel idea made per week on clutchfans.
That's what happens when you get some many arrogant homers in here that come in a thread like that and tell the OP to commit suicide and call you a bunch of names for pointing out the obvious. The endless Yao Ming believers just don't seem to get it. He's not that good and never has been a guy to put a ton of belief in. You can't let a guy play for an NBA team and a China team year after year and think that he's going to stay healthy. Especially a guy that has never had a killer instinct in the first place.
Les might crave those Chinese sponsorships, but he's not stupid enough to alienate season ticket holders by re-signing an injury prone player to a maximum contract extension. Yao is done as a franchise player.
Well Les has already done that by continuing this fantasy that Yao was going to become this monster in the next season year after year after year. It was painfully obvious that Yao was never going to be a tough player after like year 4. His best years were actually with JVG. WHen a player plays for two teams year round like Yao has every season and then gets hurt for two seasons in a row, that should have been all Les needed to see in order to see that it was only going to go downhill from there. Gambling on Yao Ming has been by far one of the most foolish things Les Alexander has ever done in his history as an NBA owner. He should have learned from the Tmac debacle as well and tried to trade him in this off season while he still had some value or really last off season to be exact.
