Yao Done for 2009-10?

[TexasTerror]

This is not good. The Rockets could be in some trouble if Yao and T-Mac are both gone for the length of the season. It's time to start all over.

Same article says T-Mac is on the market and the Rockets are just getting junk trades. No reason to trade him. Just free up cap space for 2010 summer.


“It sounds like he’s missing most of next season, if not the entire 82 games,” one league executive who has had recent discussions with the Houston front office told Yahoo! Sports. “That’s all that [the Rockets] will concede quietly, but they know it’s probably much worse.”

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=AgVPm_HncnvYwQ1EDpJmer05nYcB?slug=aw-yaorockets062909&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

[B&G]

He should change his first name to Ow!

[UNHWildCats]

the Yao injury could be career ending.

[GeauxLions94]

He should change his first name to Ow!

Or Bill Walton II

Bill Walton Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Walton)

[andy7171]

The thread title should be Yao Done

[blueballs]

If I had to bet I'd say the Rockets will make a play for Magic back-up center Marcin Gortat in the wake of this news.

[TexasTerror]

Talk in Houston is Chris Bosh.

Either trade T-Mac for Bosh now. Or wait until next summer.

Rockets will probably be the team from the LAL series that got some wins and got blown out in the others. Young, move well up and down the floor. No Yao, no T-Mac. May sneak in the playoffs or if lucky - completely bomb out, get a top three draft pick, get Yao back and get back in business!

[TexasTerror]

He's done for the season...more than likely. The Rockets and the NBA have agreed to the "disabled player exception".


While Yao considers his treatment options, the NBA formally agreed with the Rockets that Yao is likely to miss all of the 2009-10 season. By granting the Rockets the disabled player exception, worth $5.854 million for the 2009-10 season, the NBA ruled that the hairline fracture of the tarsal navicular bone in Yao’s left foot and the surgery he will likely undergo to treat it will keep him out all season.

The Rockets used the salary cap exception on Wednesday to sign free agent guard/forward Trevor Ariza, saving the mid-level exception (worth the same amount) they had offered him for future moves.

Granting the injury exception indicates the NBA agrees with the Rockets contention that Yao’s injury will require season-ending surgery, rather than the more conservative option of immobilizing the injury again in the hopes that his hairline fracture would heal without surgery.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/bk/bkn/6519742.html