i tend to believe the story. not everything the chinese have said is false just to "generate traffic" on their website. my brother has been practicing medicine for decades. based on the stories he's told me, doctors can be completely wrong at times. it nothing unusual.
That's why you always need to used a second opinion, in my workplace a worker (famale) went to the doctor because of bad blood coming out of her thing, and got the bad news that she have cancer, she told my wife and she was destroy by the news, then she got a second opinion, and end up been just a venereal disease, and she is doing great so far. I guess a big guy like Yao is uncommon and doctors can have a bad time understanding the results of an MRI. He have so big bones, not see every day.
whatever happened, i'd like yao to sit a couple games out so he doesn't have to miss significant time towards the end of the year.
The story is credible. The reporter, Wang Meng, lives in Houston to report Yao's daily living and every game. Wang is very close with Yao. Wang was also Blindberry's tour guide when Blindberry was in Beijing for the Olympics.
Wish they could report exactly what they saw in the mri....how could u make such a big misjudgement like that.
my guess is there is a problem. I have had a few surgery and there is always a debate about pro vs con. When the con to surgery is this large you need to be very sure about exactly what can be done by opening it back up. It is very possible the first doctor over reacted about how large of a problem it is.
im pretty sure that he would retire in two years due to his injury and his height. anyway good luck for our big man.
Just tossin this out there but do we realize how much money is made when Yao plays...think about the millions in China that tune in to watch him. If he misses substantial thats lots of people losing lots of money. I am not saying $ is ALL that matters...but for some people...it is. I hope not because we need him, although if he retires that does open up like 15 mil of salary space right???
This is how I feel in my heart as well. Yao is simply too big and it's just a matter of time before the stress on his legs force him to sit out another season. It seems like every game I sit hoping that yao won't try to do too much to hurt himself because it just takes one wrong step or turn on his fragile body to ruin the Rocket's year. If it was me (and I know a lot of folks are glad it isn't) I would try to trade him asap, sell high (or medium). You can't put your hopes on someone like Yao who can't stay healthy enought to last a season. I think we were just lucky those first 2 years he was here...he was young and didn't have to endure the pounding of 82 games while playing for China. All that stress has turned him into a walking time bomb of disappointment.
I hear ya man, but after 3 years of watching Yao go down, and given his stature, it's hard to ignore a trend. During his first 3 years I didn't think this wasn't going to happen...it's strange that he's gotten so much better than this rookie year but has lost his durability at the same time. You would think that getting stronger would've helped, but it seems to have made him more likely to get hurt...weird.
that is crazy.. if this is credible news then I'm really worried about Yao's health and how long he'll hold up for the rest of the season
Yao should retire. He gets no respect in the NBA. His first few years were all about terrible officiating. Now he's too old, slow, and injury prone to be highly effective.
That's a really interesting article. I mean if there's any accuracy to it, I can imagine Yao thought exactly those things. It really must have been a roller coaster ride for Yao if that's how it went down.
HaHa, you translated the X- ray into the MRI result, that is quite different. Furthermore, I do not think that any doctors can make a conclusion of three months, one month, or three days based on one examination, which is quite different time. Overall, I do not think this paper has any valuable information.
^ seriously? the OP mistranslated X-Ray as MRI? Guys, read all of the Chronicle's articles and quotes on this matter, including today's article by Feigen. They have consistently said the following: There are many quotes and discussions on this matter, and Yao and Jones have had plenty of opportunity to say "it's not as bad as we first feared or were told," but they have never come close to saying something like that. After his surgery last year, bringing in specialists, getting second opinions, is going to be a matter of course. Not getting second opinions last year was part of the reason he got injured. This year, they will always get second opinions. That doesn't mean the first doctors said he needs surgery. Don't know why people assume first opinion is bad, second opinion cleared him, when it's likely completely the other way around...as in, first doctors dont see anything but ask the specialists to double check just to be sure.
