This Associated Press came out with this article today saying Yao’s injury isn’t rattling Olympic advertisers since the doctors say he’ll be fine by then. One of the marketing experts even had a positive spin on Yao’s injury when he said:

“I think media scrutiny and fan interest regarding Yao’s recovery will keep the Olympic buzz growing strong.”

The other night during the Fox Sports Net broadcast of the Rockets game, they showed a video of many Rocket players imitating Uncle Mutombo, which was hilarious! I saw it live and wished I had recorded it. Thanks to ‘David’ for bringing it up and ‘airchina23’ for finding this video on YouTube.

Dikembe Mutombo goes up for a one-handed jam after a Tracy McGrady dish for his only points of the game against the New Jersey Nets. Mutombo also had 5 blocks to contribute to the Rockets holding the Nets to 30% shooting in a 91-73 victory. Click here for more photos from the game.

The Rockets are winning so many different ways these days. Either through balanced scoring, one guy taking over (like McGrady’s 41 Saturday night), or when the shooting isn’t spectacular, using smothering defense to win without the fireworks.

The Rockets ‘only’ shot 46% from the field Monday night, but their defense was incredible against the New Jersey Nets, who only scored 28 points in the first half on 16% shooting and trailed by 18 points at halftime.

The Nets would cut the deficit to 14 points in the third quarter, but the Rockets turned up the intensity and led by 27 before playing the rest of the game with second- and third- team guys, coasting to a 91-73 victory and winning their 19th in a row. It was also their 10th in a row by double-digits, tying an NBA record.

It’s incredible that the 5 Net starters of Richard Jefferson, Vince Carter, Nenad Krstic, Devin Harris and Josh Boone scored only 41 points for the game. I guess they haven’t been watching much video of Mount Mutombo lately.

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