Yao to skip Rockets' game against Dallas due to injury
20/11/2008 17:50
Chinese center Yao Ming will sit out Houston Rockets' regular season game
against Dallas Mavericks yesterday with a sore foot.
The six-time NBA
All-Star hurt his left foot in Monday's 100-89 victory over the Oklahoma City
Thunder as he scored 19 points and grabbing 12 rebounds in 33 minutes.
He
underwent tests on Tuesday at a Houston hospital but the result yesterday showed
no structural damage.
"It's nothing bad," said Yao. "I'm all right, actually.
I'll maybe take a few days, maybe one day."
The Rockets' leading scorer,
averaging 17 points, however, will be kept out for precautionary reasons.
He
missed the final 26 games of last season with a stress fracture in his left
foot.
Chuck Hayes will start at center in place of Yao.
Xinhua
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