Remember the trips to some therapist in Texas to fix his back. Certainly, he had knee problems as well. His back was an issue when he played for Orlando.
This. Its tooooo early for him to tell... he needs to keep working and prepare the best he can. THEN, depending on how he feels after a couple months, he should decide to do whatever he thinks is best.
As I said in an early post, the news from Xinhua Agency is actucally from an online chat with fans by SOHU. Yao simply stated that "once worst happens", he will consider retirement. He didn't say " if food isn't healing fully". I don't know where it comes from.
i am not using false. you should understand misstate and false are two different things. like you said, jason misstated what yao said but based on what. unless you were sitting in the room as yao had the interview and you understand chinese, even translation could misstate what yao really meant.
damn the 2 stars back then with a promising future now faces possible retirement. damn freakin' injury. hopefully, yao can at least do well and be a 15-20mpg player for us.
Bingo! To me, there is no new information we don't already know whatsoever. I laughed my ass off when people got into the panic mode based on the inaccurate translation and refused to listen. That's exactly the definition of "panic" anyways.
Max, I know you're a reasonable guy. Can you please tell me what you learned in this article today that wasn't abundantly obvious yesterday, or basically at any point since news of the surgery broke nearly 13 months ago? Of course we're talking about Yao's current injury. It doesn't matter how he feels now - he'd be a fool, after all he's been through, to pronounce himself healed until he sees that his foot can handle running up and down an NBA court multiple times per week. I think you're arguing against a sentiment that doesn't exist. Jason and other writers aren't saying the injury issue isn't significant. They're not trying to downplay that. They're downplaying the NEWSWORTHINESS of this particular set of statements. Yao has broken this same foot three times. He just had the most radical reconstructive surgery a person can have. If after all of that, his foot does not heal, or breaks again... he'd be one of the biggest idiots on earth not to retire. And it should be common sense, and something we all knew for the past 13 months. It's not the extent of the injury that Jason is arguing. He's wondering what in the world some of you think makes this a news story.
3 times? the major injuries causing him to miss alot games are 4. toe infection knee cap foot and then same foot so same foot injury got him twice if i am not wrong.
IF IF IF i were you, i would put more IF IF IF. otherwise, other ppl thought you had won the lottery. i am sure ppl won't think i've already won the lottery. :grin:
oh my god. im trying so hard to stay a positive attitude aka my happy place but damn this stuff is worrysome. lol lets just cross our fingers and hope for the best :grin:
