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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Rockets' Yao Ming out for season with injury AFP - 1 hour 29 minutes ago Send IM Story Print HOUSTON, Texas (AFP) - – Houston's Chinese star Yao Ming will miss the rest of the NBA season with a stress fracture in his left ankle, the Rockets said. The announcement came a day after the injury was revealed by an MRI examination, dealing another serious setback to Yao's effort to revive his injury-disrupted NBA career. Rockets team doctor Walter Lowe on Friday said surgery is the usual treatment for such an injury, which has sidelined the towering 2.26m (7-foot-6) center since November 10. Yao is still consulting with doctors to determine how he will proceed. "Is this something that I would say: 'Hey, you've got no chance of ever playing again?' No, absolutely not," Lowe said. Lowe said Yao's current injury is related to the one he suffered last year, even though it's not in the same spot. Yao sat out all of the 2009-2010 season after reconstructive surgery to repair the foot and also lower his arch. Lowe acknowledged that Yao likely remains at greater than average risk for stress fractures. "When you look at the course of Yao's career, stress fractures have been part of his foot," Lowe said. "So to say he's not at a risk to continue to have stress fractures would be crazy. "So he is at a continued risk. The new position of his foot should ... make those stresses lower." Houston coach Rick Adelman said he was "sad" for his Chinese star, who had been working hard to get back on the court. "It's just really sad, and you have to really feel for him b ecause he has worked so hard to come back and then to have this happen," Adelman said. "Last week, he was talking about getting out to play pretty soon, and now to get the news, you really feel for him and feel for our team," Adelman said. If Yao opts for surgery, it would take from seven to 10 months for him to return to the court. A seven-time All-Star, Yao missed all of last season after surgery to repair his broken left foot. Rockets' general manager Daryl Morey said he remained hopeful that Yao, 30, will recover and play for the Rockets again. "We need to continue to talk to the doctors and see where that goes," Morey said. "Yao Ming's an All-Star center and when you look throughout the league there's not very many of them. "So if it looks like there's a good prognosis here -- and we're still learning how good that prognosis will be -- for sure we're going to look at Yao Ming past this season." Yao himself didn't speak to the media on Friday, but Morey said the player who has worked tirelessly to get back in shape and rejoin his teammates was disappointed. "How much he's been off the court, and how much he cares about his teammates and the fans and the Rockets, probably is really tough for him," Morey said. Yao was the top overall draft pick in 2002 but the 2005-2006 campaign saw the first of many injuries when he broke a bone in his left foot with four games remaining in the season. In the 2006-2007 season he broke his right leg and missed 32 games, and he missed the 2008 postseason after suffering a stress fracture in his left foot in February of that year. Yao had pins inserted to stabilize the foot and played for China at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In 2008-09, Yao played 77 regular-season NBA games and had no problems with his foot until the second round of the playoffs. When that hairline crack failed to heal he had the surgery that kept him out all of last season. When healthy, Yao has been a force for the Rockets, and he has also been a valuable ambassador for the NBA abroad. His success helped pave the way for the launch of NBA China in January of 2008 and contributed to an explosion of the NBA's popularity there. Local basketball fans and pundits in China are already speculating about the possible end of an era following Yao's latest injury setback, urging the national sports hero to consider retirement. In a survey published Saturday on the website of leading Chinese sports newspaper Titan, 30 percent of those polled said it was time for Yao to hang up his trainers, even though he has yet to bring home Olympic gold for Team China. 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