Yao Ming Suggests Retirement
BEIJING – Yao Ming said he probably would end his career as basketball athlete when injured his left leg, he did not recover at the end of the NBA season, next year. Chinese basketball star also confirmed it would not have appeared in the 2012 London Olympics.
“If my leg injury did not heal for next season, I’ll stop,” said Yao was quoted as saying by the Chinese news agency, Xinhua, Wednesday (28 / 7). Yao was in the recovery plan to re-strengthen the Houston Rockets when the 2010/2011 season begins.
Yao was beaten on his left ankle injury in mid-May 2009. At that time, doctors can call it a career-threatening injury. Last season, seven times selected centers in the NBA All Star was forced to miss after undergoing left leg surgery.
This 2.28 meters player also said would strengthen the China in 2012 Olympics. “The opportunity was very small. My injury foot troubles me to play in many games. As an athlete, I am no longer basketball athlete of China’s future,” he complained.
On that occasion, Yao will be aged 30 in September next year criticized the lack of focus development in China before the Beijing Olympics 2008.
Due to the lack of coaching, young players and the Chinese Basketball League (CBA), the Bamboo Curtain countries were difficult to prepare his players at the Olympics will be held the next two years. “Now we do not have to pay what we did in 2008 and then,” said Yao.