This may sound base and off-center but depending on the recovery time, it may be a good thing for Yao (and the Rockets) that Yao broke his foot. If Yao needs the summer to recover but can come back in time for training camp, he'll get that R&R away from the national team that he needs. At the same time, he can still rehab up to that point and then use TC to get in shape and do scheme/teammate familiarity work.
Of course, this is all assuming he comes 100% back and shows no traces of being injured.
Still, too bad for Yao. He was really taking the torch from Shaq as the dominant big man in the NBA this spring.
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