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Is it time to start freaking out yet?
NOT WELL!!!!! (To answer that dipthong-rific headline.)
The national headlines started rolling in yesterday afternoon about Yao Ming and his failing foot.
- Rockets could lose Yao for season or more [Yahoo!]
- Playing the Guessing Game: Yao Ming’s foot injury has left Rockets lots of questions [ESPN]
- Yao could miss entire season with foot injury [Chron]
- The Sky is Falling!! The SKY is FALLING!!!!! [C. Little]
Right now there are just way too many unknowns to start speculating… HA! Just kidding! Since we are just useless, basement-dwelling bloggers all we have is speculation. Let the rampant rumors and sports hyperbole begin!
Let’s just imagine for a moment that Yao Ming will be fine. His foot will heal over the course of a long summer in which he has no obligation to play with the Chinese National Team. Yao will be at 147% at the beginning of the 2009-10 season, he will lead the league in All-Star ballots, sweep the scoring/assists/rebounds/blocks titles and lead the Houston Rockets to their first championship in more than a decade. This will only lead to a dominance not seen since the days of the Bill Russel Celtics sending the Rockets on a streak of championships that has no modern rival, three-peats will seem insignificant.
Sounds swell, don’t it? Nobody will look back at this post from late June about how Rockets fans threw in the towel four months before the season began. Or, maybe someone will remember how bleak things looked in the summer and Spike Lee can do one of his documentary films like he did for Kobe and call it Yao: Healin’ Up – A Spike Lee Joint.
The dystopic side of the coin: Yao Ming is done forever. FOR-EV-ER! And you got worried about the fabled move of Yao to the Chinese-owned Cavaliers. Seems silly now, doesn’t it? So, the Rockets are preparing for a life without Yao by trading for Hasheem Thabeet hiding their heads in the sand just as they should. Wasn’t everybody saying last year that his body couldn’t take the wear and tear of playing an NBA season followed by an Olympic Campaign? Serves you right, Rockets management, for not stiff-arming the Chinese nationals and forcing Yao to defect.
[ESPN just popped up the graphic that Yao only missed two games in his first season and since then 91 games in four seasons. So, the Rockets have a little practice playing without their star center. That's a bright spot, right?]
All in all, I’m willing to give myself a time-out and give my keyboard a rest on this whole issue. There’s no reason to freak out (yet). No decisions have been made on Yao’s future (yet). He’s going off to seek second and third opinions from doctors that are not from Tom Clanton, Rockets Doctor and Antagonist of National Media. The Rockets haven’t re-signed Artest (yet) and they haven’t traded Tracy McGrady (yet). There’s still a lot that has to happen before we can throw in the towel.
The off-season for the Houston Rockets just got a lot more interesting.
- Septimus Rex
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THERE IS EVERY REASON TO FREAK OUT! This is a sign of the 2012 apocalypse straight from the book of Revelation:
And thus will a red giant walk among ye, and he shall smite the beast with the seven horns, unless injury begets his foot firstly.
WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!
I think the fact that I managed to sneak “dipthong” into a post is more a sign of the apocalypse.
Oh. I thought it was some sort of bathing suit Bruno wears in SBC’s new film, kind of like Borat’s mankini. I was afraid to open the link at work. Turns out it was just a stupid word from a dead language.
onomatopoeia ftw
TRG, you’re supposed to be the smartest out of us bloggers. Start living up to my high expectations.