Yao Ming News

The 2009 offseason has been more than frustrating for the Rockets' front office and their fans.

The Houston Rockets, fresh off losing Ron Artest to the Los Angeles Lakers, have essentially swapped players by agreeing to terms with Lakers free agent forward Trevor Ariza, whom Artest will be replacing in Los Angeles.

With center Yao Ming out for the coming season, the Houston Rockets are desperate for a big-man replacement - but not desperate enough to want 76ers big man Samuel Dalembert.

Although the future of China's injured NBA all-star Yao Ming remains unclear, the basketball superstar has made headlines again this week - this time for a business interest in his home team of Shanghai.

Trevor Ariza's phone has not stopped ringing. For awhile, Toronto kept calling, until the Raptors and the charms of Toronto lured Hedo Turkoglu away from his commitment to Portland.

It's no secret that the Sixers would like to trade Samuel Dalembert this summer, just like it's no secret that Dalembert has asked the Sixers to trade him in the past.

With his career threatened by a foot injury, basketball superstar Yao Ming may be looking to open a new chapter in his life - as one of the owners of his old team, the Shanghai Sharks.

Losing Yao Ming would plunge the Rockets back into the one lottery in which winners aren't guaranteed a pot of gold.

In Texas, we call it Snipe hunting. The Houston Rockets are searching for something that does not exist.

Sources close to Rockets center Yao Ming tell Local 2 this afternoon he will announce he is having major surgery on his left foot in the next few days, and that the procedure will keep him out of the upcoming Rockets season.

Nobody should be totally floored that a 7-foot-6, 350-pound man who has missed 20 or more games in three of the last four seasons due to injury now finds his career in jeopardy after breaking his left foot again .

On the eve of last week's NBA draft, Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey said the team was still determined to build around Yao Ming.

The NBA free agency period began at 9 p.m. PST and so far things are quiet on the Eastern and Western conference fronts.

According to an article written just today by Adrian Wojnarowski titled, "Rockets Could Lose Yao for Season, If Not Longer," Yao Ming's career may be over... by Steven Resnick 614 reads Breaking News According to an article written just today by Adrian Wojnarowski titled "Rockets Could Lose Yao for Season, If Not Longer," Yao Ming's career may be ...

LOS ANGELES -- Phil Jackson will return to coach the Los Angeles Lakers next season, getting a clean bill of health following a record championship season.

Houston Rockets center, Yao Ming, suffered a hairline fracture of the navicular bone of his left foot during a playoff game with the Lakers on May 8. This injury has the potential to keep him off the court for next season and possibly end his basketball career.

The foot injury sidelining Chinese center Yao Ming could threaten the 7-foot-6-inch player's career, a physician for the Houston Rockets basketball team said.

When someone is great, there's nothing that can stop their light from shining through the cracks of whatever it is that they excel at.

Just when the Rockets push the eventual champion L.A. Lakers to a seventh game, Ming breaks his foot.

Free agents can officially sign with NBA teams beginning July 8. If Ariza, 24 years old, has decided to join the Rockets, the 6'8" forward's signing will be the first bit of good news for the organization in a few days.