The Morning Bark Newsletter

"With four surgeries in three years, the Rockets worried they were reaching a breaking point. Well, it’s here. After missing 86 games in the previous three seasons, the 28-year-old Yao missed a mere five this past regular season before injuring his foot during the Rockets’ second-round playoff series against the Los Angeles Lakers." - Adrian Wojnarowski, Yahoo! Sports
Eek. This has Ralph Sampson Part Deux written all over it. Sampson, a former #1 overall selection of the Houston Rockets, was the ROY in 1984 and an All-Star his first four seasons in the league. Then he injured his knee. Three surgeries and six years later, he was out of the NBA and working as an assistant coach at James Madison University.
- Jeff

Report: Yao Ming Could Miss a Full Season With Broken Foot, or Worse submitted by SportsRssFeed  on June 29, 2009 (FanHouse) Dire news out of Houston, if reputable Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! has the right information. The Rockets announced last week that Yao Ming would remain out "indefinitely" -- in other words, the broken foot suffered in the playoffs that was set to be healed by now has not healed. But there's plenty of time until opening night, right?Maybe not enough time. Woj reports the prognosis could have Yao on the bench for all of 2009-10, and there's a chance his basketball career is completely finished. The info comes from general managers who have talked trade with Houston GM Daryl Morey over the past weeks...

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