Gortat is more and more attractive.

I won’t offer that here. No, I will. DAMN IT.

Anyhow, are we now in the Amare sweepstakes?

Maybe someone who wants to contend signs both? I’d hate to think it, but NO would be a good fit.

BUT, I’ll say this now:

Rockets will make the playoffs anyway – unless we want a high pick, that is, then we just miss.

I hope it’s wrong and I hope Yao can get back out on the floor again and play to the ability we know he can.

It seems these big 7-foot guys just don’t have the support in their feet that their body requires. Sad stuff.

This really, really sucks… and I’m a Blazer fan. Yao drove me crazy when we played against you guys. I hope he can come back at full strength sometime soon.

Rebuilding in Houston?

really sucks for you guys. injuries have been crippling you guys for years. yao should probably go to europe to play where there is a much shorter season.

I wish Yao and y’all the best. I was looking forward to a re-match next playoffs, and I hope it is still the case.

It’s not Yao’s fault, and he’s a good guy, which makes even more a bummer. His body just betrays him. If Big Z can come back and do well after all his foot problems, the even better Yao hopefully can. His game isn’t predicated on athleticism, but skill and sheer size.

If he can walk, he’ll be good.

Good luck, Rockets fans. I’m sorry about Yao and I hope the reports aren’t as dire as they seem.

Mortimer

I’ll believe it when it’s official.

Not good for the Rockets.

And I would say not good for the NBA. If it’s true, I feel for you guys. I hope it’s not.

The tinfoil hat-wearing conspiracy theorist in me thinks, “Tanking for John Wall,” but that seems almost too absurd even for tinfoil.

I personally think that we shouldn’t do anything too hasty. Maybe sign some guys to fill up the roster but nothing more than that. I propose the Rockets try and make next year as fun as possible. I think it’s fairly obvious that unless Morey can turn shit into gold, we’re not contending next year. It’s upsetting to type that, but I’m ok with that. I vote we should try and run and develop the young guys. This would actually be good if we could get Rubio (he isn’t a scorer but let’s say we put him in a purely distributor role on this running machine). Then maybe start a makeshift line up, meant to develop the young guys and have some fun while we do it.

Lineup:
Brooks or Rubio/Lowry
Von/Taylor/Budinger
Taylor/Battier
Budinger/Hayes
Landry/Hayes
      

Adelman’s decision to keep playing Yao in the second half of that Game 3 when Yao refused to let anyone look at his foot looks far, far stupider now than it even did back then. How in the hell could he have done that! Adelman should not avoid one shred of criticism for this, IMO.

I saw this earlier on yahoo and quickly went to ESPN to see if they had more info but they didn’t. Sup with yahoo trying to kill us? :(

This really sucks. Us Kings fans had our glory years derailed due to injuries to our franchise player, Chris Webber, and we haven’t been the same since. Its just not fair when you’re good that this kind of stuff happens. Its especially not fair to Rick Adelman, a great coach who has had some miserable luck in the playoffs. I truly hope that these reports are false.

Condolences from Sacramento.

I hope that Yao’s career is not over and that “The Wall” will once again wear a Rockets jersey in an NBA game. May Morey have much success in repairing the Rockets team and making them competitive in the Western conference. My sympathies go out to my friends here at The Dream Shake, as I know it must be extremely harsh to lose the cornerstone of your franchise for even “most of a season”, and I pray it is not for even longer. Keep the faith!

While I hope my team beats the Rockets I want it to be with everyone healthy and able to play – especially a class guy like Yao.

we’re not sure what it means, and we won’t know what it means until some more doctors take a better look. It’s something to be concerned about, but I don’t think it’s reason to panic yet. The Rockets and Yao have several options available, including doing the same thing or trying something much more invasive, but we have no idea how this will affect him or his season.

See, Morey should hire me to be his PR guy. He’s awful at this. “No comment” just gives fans reason to freak out over something they know little about.

How could the Chinese Government not see that having a 7’6" man play basketball year round for season after season could end anyway but bad. If ever a player needed time off his feet, this is the guy. It’s not as if he needed to play for the national team every year. He could have showed up in Beijing without any practice with the team and given the same performance.
They tried to squeeze every bit of exposure for China’s basketball that they could. Who are they going to have as their figure head now. Yi Jianlian and Sun Yue could still turn out to be good pros, but neither will be a Hall of Fame type of player that Yao could have, and hopefully still can be.

Your team provided the Lakers one of its biggest challenge this past playoffs, and as a bball fan, let’s hope Yao and the doctors prove all our fears wrong. We are with you on this.

talk about overboard…

This report is not 100 percent tru…theres a chance yao is fine…it jsut said that its possible _______…ok its also possible that he’ll be healthy…unless we hear that he DEF out then thats one thing…

also y is everything over?

v.s the Lakers we won 2 and lost 2 with yao…we have a good enough team to make the playoffs…

It’s nothing that hasn’t been already stated (well, except for the Rockets being pissed that this info was made public), but it’s a little clearer in describing what is going on:

The Rockets understood the realm of possibility’s width from the minute Yao walked out of that examination last week. What they didn’t know — and still don’t — are the percentages. Is there a two percent chance he doesn’t play next season? Ten percent? Fifty?

That’s what the second opinions he’s seeking over the next few days will determine. For now, the chances of Yao starting the season or not playing at all next season are the least likeliest outcomes. Having surgery, returning sometime in midseason and continuing his career, is the most likely.

Basically, Yao has three options: he can continue his current treatment, which (if successful) would mean he could start the season; he can essentially have the surgery he had in March 2008 again, which would mean he wouldn’t start the season but would return for most of it; or he can have a much more significant surgery (the surgeons would be basically realigning his foot, similar to what Ilgauskas went through) that would sideline him for the whole season but would decrease the chances of this happening again.

I hope he gets better. He’s one of my favorite players and I want him to be playing again.

Darryl Morey, leaked this info himself, after making up the whole story.
Maybe he is sick of getting calls from other GM’s trying to get their hands on Yao for nothing cause of his injury proneness, and by starting this rumour it’ll stop the phone calls- get him some sympathy and will be a feel good story when Yao returns in mid December.

Please let this be true

could be a blessing in disguise (if Yao comes back in ‘10-’11).

tank the season, get lucky in the lottery, draft John Wall, sign Bosh in ’10, Yao recovers, contend for championship.

great Homer J. pic by the way.