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Yao Ming, aka the most famous Asian athlete in the world, might miss the entirety of the next NBA season. However, that’s not the worst case scenario. According to ESPN, the stress fracture in his foot could be career threatening. Never mind the impact this has on his team, the Houston Rockets, and never mind the impact this has on the parity of the always heated Western NBA conference, I’m wondering what this could possibly mean to Asian basketball in general.

Yao Ming jerseys have been one of the most popular sellers in the NBA since he joined the league. He is a perennial NBA all-star and one of the top five players at his position. Yao is an icon and hero to an entire 1/6th of the world’s population carrying the home flag for China in last year’s Olypmics. So yea, losing him would not be good.

We’ll have to wait till next week for more information as Yao gets second and third opinions from doctors around the world.

He’s always had foot or knee related injuries. During the 2008 season, the one before the Olympics, Yao suffered a pretty serious foot injury half-way through. It took him out for the rest of that season and many speculated the Olympics as well. However he pulled a small miracle coming back in time to make it for the Olympics but I’m wondering if he really was ready to come back. Not that I fault him for possibly risking his career to play for his home country when his home country was the host nation. But you have to wonder if these things are related.


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tennislahs - 07/03/09 7:58 am
ludachris714 - 07/03/09 12:50 am

Breaking NEWS!

Rumor! Ron Artest is leaving Rockets to be a LA LAKERS!!

=]

yeah, i heard it through yahoo.

that sucks


ludachris714 - 07/03/09 12:50 am

Breaking NEWS!

Rumor! Ron Artest is leaving Rockets to be a LA LAKERS!!

=]

yeah, i heard it through yahoo.


ludachris714 - 07/03/09 12:51 am

RUMOR: T.Ariza is leaving to go to Cleveland Cav. =[

Oh Man… lol

really ?! :(


RUMOR: T.Ariza is leaving to go to Cleveland Cav. =[

Oh Man… lol


Breaking NEWS!

Rumor! Ron Artest is leaving Rockets to be a LA LAKERS!!

=]


ryu00 - 07/02/09 2:39 am

lets just hope he gets a full recovery so he can get back to basketball

yeah. And kick some butt !


lets just hope he gets a full recovery so he can get back to basketball


APXIII - 07/02/09 1:00 am

omg, aw xO
hope he recovers, soon

same here


omg, aw xO
hope he recovers, soon


At least he is not going to die.
To many celebs are dying ! :(


awwww poor yao.


eek. hope he gets better


wow i feel so bad for him :[


Yao was good, i like to see him play more with rockets.


He won’t get better for awhile. The surgery he’s gonna get will make him miss part of next season and possibly more. He should just worry about getting healthy and stop taking shortcuts to come back earlier.


i hope he gets better soon ...


Aww

Thats so sad :(


Hope he gets the proper treatment and pointers on how to avoid such injuries in the future.


OH gee, I didn’t know it was that bad. I hope theres a fix to his health =/


I read about this on News it really suck to have that happen. Hope he gets better soon


Yeah I think bc he’s so big and tall he has more complications with his health. But I hope he gets back out there soon.


awww that would really suck for Yao…
but i have hope he gets better though to carry on the legacy


I saw Yao play once. He’s a huge guy! I guess that’s why he has so many foot problems.


would be real sad if he misses the year. what is he gonna do when he’s not playing raspberry


awww hope u get better!


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