Yao Ming to have microfracture surgery, his shoes may be partial cause of the injury

Reebok is not the right option. Yao made a wrong decision.
Is that a lifetime contract?

 

Either your lying about this polysorbathane stuff, spelled it wrong, or more simply; you are the g@d d@mn devil!

 

overreact

 

I think they meant to say Yao's having surgery on his mircofracture, not he is having mircofracture surgery. He has a stress fracture that couldn't be picked up by normal x-rays and bone spurs. Neither require the "microfracture" surgery that Amare had. Then again, I'm no doctor.

 

It's crazy to let the team doctor do the surgery on Yao's foot. How many case the team doctor did before? none or a few. Yao should ask the Number one sport doctor to do it. Someone knows Yao, or Yao's Team, or Rocket organization should contact him. I am not sure it's because yao wants the surgery as soon as possible, and tehn he will not miss the Olympic. He should let a experience doctor to do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Come on,Thomas Clanton is a big name in this area.
He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.

 

Yes, something like that. I'm trying to find an article about it. This is the best one I could find. I know there's more to it, though.

 

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Fellow? Most of orthopaedic surgeons are. Yao should get of the best national specialists to do it. It's Rockets' future. Man, If the surgery is not sucessful, Yao will be gone. DO you know how many cases Dr. Clanton did before? Yoy need someone doing this kind surgery on daily or weekly basis, Dr. Clanton may be good on all kind of things, but for sure is not doing these kinds of surgery on regular basis.

 

Well, stress fractures are not a weekly occurrence. Maybe there are 10 stress factures surgeries all around the world in all of sports for the whole year.

 

What's so damn fustrating about the whole thing is no one is looking out for Yao's best interest. It's all about using him to make money and as far as his training goes the CNT is running this guy into the ground.

The guy plays a very hard NBA schedule to make him do all the training that the other CNT players do is just plain rediculous. If Yao does not learn to say NO he needs to make a decision: either play in the NBA or go full time into playing for the CNT. He's cutting his own career short and may end up crippled for the rest of his life trying to keep two masters happy and it's not working out.

This would free up the Rockets to go after another big man and if you are going to invest millions into an athlete you might as well have a say on how, when, and where he trains or plays.

 

He made the decision for going Reebok instead of Nike because he stuck to his principle, and he hated Nike for trying to cheat him during contract negotiation.

He had wore Nike for 6 years since he was a 17-year-old; Nike had nurtured him, sent him to US and Europe for training camps etc.

And when the time came for renewal of his contract in 2004, Adidas and Reebok all joined in the competition to try to steal the jewel on the crown from Nike.

Nike originally almost had the contract sealed; in fact they had the contract delivered to Yao Team and Yao Ming. And their endorsement value is far higher than those from Reebok and Addidas. They virtually had Yao ming's verbal consent and nod to sign.

But at the last minute, Yao Ming discovered Nike was dishonest and had hidden something from the contract and wanted to cheat him.

Yao Ming changed his mind and decided to sign for Reebok.

Nike raised the $$$$$$ and returned for a second offer. The second offer was so large that one couldn't have imagined. At that time, Nike already had two superstars Lebron James and Kobe Bryant, but the second offer to Yao Ming was equal to Lebron James + 2/3 of Kobe Bryant.

Yao Ming did not waver. He signed for Reebok. In fact, the offer Reebok signed with Yao Ming was only about 40% of Nike's 2nd offer. The Reebok deal also had a condition on whether to extend Yao Ming's contract in the 7th year. And it's not an easy task---in the next 7 years Yao Ming had to appear in the All-Star Game at least 3 times in order to renew the Reebok contract. In contrast, Nike's offer was much higher and without any conditions.

Later on, Yao Ming explained his decision for going Reebok. He said: "It's not a matter of money. You can give me less money, but you have to face me honestly."

The saga of Nike versus Reebok competition on signing Yao Ming is a well known story. Yao Ming is a man of principle, and he just hated to be cheated.

Full details of that story was fully covered in the Foreword Chapter of Yang Yi's bibliography of Yao Ming.

http://sports.sohu.com/2004/02/05/04/news218930458.shtml

 

Where did you get this numbner? not necessary profensionaly sport, a lot fo people can get stress fractures.

 

I hear your concern but you've made it sound as if someone is forcing him to play for both Rockets and CNT. That's not true because that's what he WANT to do. So, if you understand him, just be happy.

If you still think Rockets is INVESTING millions in Yao, you are really naive. From a business stand point, Yao is MAKING millions for Rockets every year from endowments and that's why the boss wants to keep him, aside from the fact he plays good basket ball. If you are the boss and you pay someone that generates more money for you that you pay him, will you call that an investment? I will call it a partnership. If you think because Rockets hands out the contract so it has total controls on the players, think again....

 

i spelled it wrong here it is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbothane

and here's the insole Yao would need:

http://www.run-longer.com/insoles/sorboair.html


the material is like puddy. it's kinda gooey but it retains it's form. You can cut it with a nice and shape it to fit your shoe perfectly.

 

This is news to me - it's usually reported that Nike dropped Yao because of Le Bron. So I didn't know Yao had a choice. I doubt Nike would put more into Yao then Kobe and James, considering that Yao isn't even the top seller of gear in China. Isn't he like 5th on the jersey list?

Anyway, I don't think the problem is Reebok's shoes, I think the problem is that Yao isn't getting the most advanced technology insole. Really, these insole companies should hire me as a sales person. I'd be putting them into every athlete's shoe.

There are truly amazing.

 

Consolas- If yao was making so much money for the rox, why is the owner scared of the luxury tax? I've said it a million times, yao makes money for the league, not the rox. The international money goes into the big pot and divided up equally by all 30 teams.

People have been bashing reebox, but if u don't have a shoe deal, u wear reebox as theoutfiiter for the nba. If reebox is such a bad shoe, why iverson never have feet issues?

 

Because Iverson doesn't have high arch feet and doesn't have to lug around 300 lb. Iverson should try carrying another 50lb on his back and see how his feet feel.

 

A person like Yao need a special made shoe. There's no arguement about that. While an average people like us can wear normal shoe and wouldn't have this problem. I mean my feet muscles, bones and cartilage are just as strong as his. But when I add another 100lb to my body, I can surely understand what it's feel like. It's call gravity people. Height, body mass ect. That's what it's all about.

 

Eddy Curry is 285 and he wears reebox void of foot trouble. It doesn't matter about the shoes. If yao has the high arc, the the proper insole is the solution.

 

hey leebigez,
are u gonna call up FCP this week?