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"They don't speak," an extremely plugged-in person tells me. "And Yao wants [McGrady] out."

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This is Houston. And, yes, they have a problem. (God, I hate using that old, tired, trite saying.

THEN STOP USING IT, FUCKWIT!

“They don’t speak,” an extremely plugged-in person tells me. “And Yao wants him out.”

Who wants to bet that the “extremely plugged-in person” is Blinebury or Justice? Yeah, they’re not known for their bullshit at all.

Anyways, who would have said, at the beginning of this season, that T-Mac would be the person attracting all the “cancer” talk and not Crazy Pills?

by Only_A_Lad on Jan 14, 2009 10:14 AM CST reply actions  

me

I’d have said that. I never thought Ron would be a problem in a contract year.

by grungedave on Jan 14, 2009 10:20 AM CST up reply actions  

BTW, Yao spoke on the radio and laughed it off

He said “they didn’t speak to me, I know that” and something along the lines of “we have a very good locker room, we all talk”

by UofTOrange on Jan 14, 2009 11:03 AM CST up reply actions  

what's he supposed to say???

Yao saying on the air “I f—king hate him and wish he would grow a pair” would make for awesome radio, but that’s just not something he’d ever say.

by grungedave on Jan 14, 2009 11:29 AM CST up reply actions  

but,

Yao could have easily hinted at something wrong. You can’t say, on the one hand, that Yao is just brushing this off for political reasons, and then say that this journalist isn’t doing the same thing. Locker room troubles make for good stories, but there’s no indication that this is anything more than bullshit.

by Only_A_Lad on Jan 14, 2009 12:36 PM CST up reply actions  

[Here’s what I can tell you from first-hand observation. 1 — I have frequently heard McGrady tell all of us in the media that he would like to see Yao shoot the ball and take over games. What he might have said to a friend privately, I can’t say. But I have seen no evidence of jealousy. 2 — The statement that Yao and McGrady do not speak is just not true. Here’s what I saw on Saturday night prior to the Knicks game: McGrady, who was not playing, stopped by his locker to pick up a few things. He then walked to the other side of the room, where leaned down and to Dikembe Mutombo and said, “Hello, Papa.” After exchanging a few other words, McGrady walked to where Yao was sitting in front of his locker, talking to reporters, and he leaned in and tapped him on the shoulder. He asked Yao how he was feeling. They chatted briefly and then McGrady left. With all of that, as I posted in the blog on Saturday, there are many — likely a majority — of players in the locker room who have not been happy wtih McGrady’s play-or-not-play, in-and-out-of-the-lineup status for much of the season. And there were many who were furious with his “effort” in the Toronto game. I think the entire team is happier now that a decision has been made to keep both McGrady and Ron Artest out of the lineup in order to rehab and get healthy. They want consistency. They want to know who is in the lineup every night and they want to know that the players who play are physically capable and ready to go all-out. —Fran]

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by Cornholio on Jan 14, 2009 3:19 PM CST reply actions  

Here's the only piece of this that doesn't make sense

I’ve never thought of Aldridge as anything on the up and up

by UofTOrange on Jan 14, 2009 4:16 PM CST reply actions  

agreed

T-Mac could be doing a lot of this for show… and then ripping Yao to his friends.

by grungedave on Jan 14, 2009 5:03 PM CST up reply actions  

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