Worse news than I thought from when Yao broke his foot yesterday. Yao is going to have surgery, and it could take 4-6 months to heal. Click here for more of the story.

The good news is that Yao will get plenty of rest this off-season and not get too worn down from too much training with the Chinese National Team.

The bad news is 4-6 months can be way too much time to not be able to run and keep up one’s conditioning. Hopefully it will only be four months, which means he could start putting more pressure on that foot around August.

Man, who would have thought an injury like this one with such little trauma could sideline somebody that long? I know it has happened to other players before, but it’s amazing this kind of injury doesn’t occur more often with NBA players each season.

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