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Yao Ming: Foot Injury Could Sideline Yao Entire Season
News that Yao Ming could be sidelined for the season started to leak out last week during the flurry of activity that often surrounds the NBA draft. Now it appears that the situation could be even more serious than originally anticipated – and the original anticipation was pretty grave.
Yao Ming’s broken foot just refuses to heal. He had surgery on the troublesome foot almost exactly a year ago – his fourth surgery on his lower body in the preceeding two years – and three pins were inserted to help stabilize the navicular bone. The same bone cracked again in the 2009 playoffs and you have to wonder how much more can be done.
Whether or not you count yourself as a fan of the Houston Rockets, if you love the game of basketball it breaks your heart watching what has happened to Yao over the years. This is a guy who was tracked by the Chinese government since his birth due to the athletic genes of his parents. Talk about pressure! He is probably the most agile and skilled player of his size that basketball has ever seen. Yao carries a lot of weight on his shoulders at 7’6” tall and 310 pounds. All of that pressure pounding on his lower body combined with the pressure not to disappoint his fans on either side of an ocean is taking a terrible toll on the ultimately fragile big man. Five consecutive seasons (counting the upcoming season which has Yao predicted to miss all 82 games) have now been interrupted by injuries to his lower body.
There are many moments in Yao’s career that stick out, but personally I think the moment that showed the most about who and what he is happened this year during Game 3 of the Lakers series. Yao was hobbled. He was clearly in pain. The trainers, his coach, his teammates all beckoning him off the court and he didn’t want to sit down. His substitute was on the floor ready to take over and he did not want to come out of the game. Once he finally made his way to the sideline, he broke down in tears. I’m sure he was in pain physically and that probably had a lot to do with his demeanor, but the frustration was painted across his face. He did not want to let his team down. He did not want to concede defeat to the injury or to the stupid Lakers. He felt he was abandoning his team out there and he absolutely hated it.
I’m being a girl, I know. Whatever.
The injury took Yao out of the playoffs, which must have seemed especially cruel since Houston was enjoying it’s longest playoff run in 12 years and Yao was having his most injury free campaign since his first few seasons. The Rockets must now do the impossible. Finding a backup center was already the top priority, but how do you replace Yao? You can’t. A replacement simply doesn’t exist.
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Basketball News question by Blu: Why is football being referenced with the likes of baseball and basketball concerning corruption?
In sporting news across the last couple days, a lot of sports writers refer to professional sports as being corrupted. The long time steroid issue in baseball, Spygate in football and now the officiating scandals in basketball.
Why should football be even in the same category when it was one incident concerning one organization that made the wrong decision. The other two are substantially more significant because they pertain to multiple incidents among various players and officials in multitude of games. The fact is the Patriots have been punished and the incident is over. Whereas in baseball and basketball these incidents their incidents are far conclusion. That and the NFL’s been one of the strictest disciplinary leagues and has one of toughest drug testing policies. So why should football get all the negative publicity deserved with the rest of the professional sports?
Basketball News best answer:
Answer by m3star
Not close. I think basketball is the WORST. i stopped watching years ago due to the bad calls. It seems as if that has not changed one bit.
NBA sucks!
