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Yao Ming has been injured before and it was during the season before the Olympics and Yao had to take time off and get prepared for the Olympics. In fact, this is the 5th season in a row that Yao has had some sort of foot injury. This creates a problem for Houston.
From the outside looking in, it appears that Houston plays better with Ming in the lineup and McGrady in the lineup, they play more inspired with McGrady out of the lineup, and play the …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Think of Yao and LeBron on the court together for the rest of their careers and your first thought is why would LeBron want to sign with Houston?
But that is not the source of this discussion. The source is from Hoopsworld reporting that a Chinese group is interested in investing in the Cavaliers.
Not when the New World Development Company, representing a group of Chinese investors, is set to buy a 15 percent ownership interest in the Cleveland Cavaliers.
The Hong Kong-based group is led by Kenny Huang, a …read more

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The trade rumor mill is cranked up and some of them are just outstanding. The silly part is they may all come true, because while you are still harping on the Pistons for trading All Star Chauncey Billups for AI, GM Joe D only took him for a free tryout, increased attendance, and a salary of 22 mill that comes off the books. In other words, you don’t know why a team trades for a player.
This rumor you have to love just for the shear unbelievableness. …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Tracy McGrady and Joe Smith playing the little known sport of basketball wrestling

Are the Rockets the most screwed up team in basketball or destined to win the championship?
Huh?
Yeah, you heard me, are they screwed up or going to be winners? Or maybe is it winners or whiners?
And now we get the news that T-Mac is hurt again, both the shoulder and the knee.
“My knee is about 75, 80 percent right now,” McGrady, 29, said. “It took longer than expected. I was expecting to recover 100 percent in …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Yao Ming – will the big fella be around for the 2012 Olympics in London?

Yao Ming and the Chinese team were eliminated in the Olympics by Lithuania. It was a quiet exit for the super tall super star. Not quite what the Chinese were envisioning.
Now it looks like Yao may be done as a Chinese National basketball star.
“That is four years away,” Yao said later. “In 2004, I thought that 2008 was far away. Now I look at 2012 (the next Games in London) and maybe …read more

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Here Ron Artest thinks he is a Rocket already and leans into take off position

It does not take a rocket scientist to tell if Ron Artest at his best will improve the Houston Rockets. He will.
Artest wanted to be reunited with Coach Rick Adelman. Rick was his coach in Sacramento when Ron started playing there.
So the trade was made…
A source close to the Kings said Tuesday a trade has been agreed upon sending Ron Artest to Houston for former Sacramento point guard Bobby Jackson, first-round draft …read more

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China wants a very tall well known man as the “Face of the Olympics”.
Who could be better than Yao Ming?
Yao Ming looms big for the Chinese Olympic team and the Olympics!
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Everyone loves Yao. Top it off; Yao is a great player as well.
It appeared that leg injuries would keep Yao out of the Olympics and the Chinese Olympic organizers were worried. This Olympics is very important to the Chinese. They want to show …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Joe Dumars opened the doors to all trade offers. The Pistons are slightly over the salary cap, so a trade of one of their veteran starters appears to be very doable.
So what are the rumors?
The two strongest deal with the Golden State Warriors and the Houston Rockets.
Tracy McGrady can’t believe he could go to a winning team like the Pistons!
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Houston Rockets
Let’s start with the Rockets. Tracy McGrady said he wanted to win, so going to …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
The Rockets and Tracy McGrady could really use Yao Ming in the NBA Playoffs, but at least the Chinese will have Yao for the Olympics.
Check out this YouTube on his rehab.

With the aging of the Shaq, Yao Ming is the best true center in the NBA.
NBA Basketball special comment The NBA has gone to the more mobile power forward type centers like Amare Stoudemire or Dirk Nowitzki. Will Yao, Greg Oden, and Andrew Bynum and company bring back the true centers of old?
As always, any NBA …read more

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Kevin Garnett played with a shrunken head while beating the Houston Rockets
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Ouch.
Boston Celtics 94 Houston Rockets 74
Win streak stopped out at 22.
You lose 1 game and the talk comes out.
“See, told you so”.
Well, have to admit, the Houston Rocket fans almost had me. Your intrepid author was here to write that the Rockets were invincible. Hey, beat Boston, the best team in basketball this year, and add in the fact it would have been victory number 23 in a …read more