Yao Ming To Miss Playoffs With An Injured Foot

by Yuliya Talmazan | May 10, 2009 at 12:34 pm

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Yao Ming, the celebrity Chinese-born Houston Rockets center player, will miss the rest of this season’s playoffs with an injured left foot. Yao got injured during the Friday’s game with the Los Angeles Lakers and was visibly limping at the end of the game. It is reported Yao will need 8-12 weeks to recover and will thus no longer play in the playoffs this season. Yao's team is now 1-2 behind Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference semifinal series.

Yao Ming will miss the rest of the playoffs because of a broken left foot.

The Houston center limped off the court late in the Los Angeles Lakers’ 108-94 victory over the Rockets on Friday night. Yao missed Saturday’s practice to get treatment and the team said the 7-foot-6 All-Star would be re-evaluated on Sunday.

But the Rockets announced later Saturday night that further examination of Yao’s injury revealed a hairline fracture. The Rockets say Yao will need 8-12 weeks to recover, though no surgery is required.