The Houston Rockets are going to have a tough time from now on: one of their star centers, Yao Ming, is going to be out for the rest of this NBA season because of a stress left-foot fracture. Now, this is a problem you could spot even if you were in Mars.
Yao Ming has reached a great record on this season’s performance: he has an average of 22 points and 10.8 rebounds per game. That’s why this is actually a significant loss for the Houston team. With his basketball injury, the recovery will take a long time no matter which method the doctors choose, surgery or just a regular cast.
So, this is it for the Rockets? Hell, no. At least they can’t let it happen. They currenty enjoy a 15-game winning streak, and I have to say I think this is one of their best NBA seasons in years. Sure, they’re third on their division, but they still have good chances of reaching playoffs if they keep on playing like that. Now, it will be really hard to keep the pace if one of your team’s key figures is missing. But the rest of the team hasn’t done that bad these days, which leaves us with the hope of expecting them to lose like 2 more games than they win (remember they still have a few games at home against teams that are not exactly hot right now), and they’ll still have some chances of jumping to postseason.
I’m not giving up on them yet. Let’s see how they do, maybe it won’t be that much of a tragedy… or so they hope.
Source: NBA.com
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