Raymond just reported in the forum that Yao will hold a press conference on July 20th to announce his future career plans.

Based on this information, it’s pretty safe to say that Yao will make formal his retirement announcement during this press conference. If he wasn’t going to retire, you would expect that he would clear it up right away. But we’ll see…

Here’s the announcement in Chinese and English:

???????

2011?7?9? ?????????20????????????????????????????????????

To all reporters and friends, Ni Hao !!!

July 9, 2011 in Beijing.

Yao Ming will hold a press conference in Shanghai July 20th when he will talk about his future career plans.

This entry was posted on Saturday, July 9th, 2011 at 12:12 am and is filed under China. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.