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Yao Ming Will Wait Week before Surgery Decision
BEIJING (AP) - Houston Rockets All-Star center Yao Ming will
have to wait up to a week before he knows whether he will need
surgery on his broken left foot.
The playing future of the 7-foot-6 Yao is in question amid
reports from the team doctor that the hairline fracture in his foot
could keep him out all of next season, and potentially end his
career.
Yao's agent, Eric Zhang, told The Associated Press today that
"it hasn't been decided yet."
Before that there is no way of telling whether surgery will be
performed.
Yao sustained a hairline fracture of the tarsal navicular bone
late in a May 8 playoff game against the Los Angeles Lakers. The
Rockets
said last week that the injury has not healed and he wasout indefinitely.
Yao is due to make more than $16 million next season, with a
player option for 2010-11 that would pay him more than $17 million.
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