I mentioned Yao was done for the season in the Artest thread last week. Yao has the same problem Z and a lot of giants have...the arch of their feet can't handle the stress. Yao has spoken to Z's doctors and Z himself about getting the same reconstruction surgery which reduces the stress on the arch. Hopefully it works out and saves his career. I had visions of Yao coming here next year and being the perfect fit next to Lebron for basketball as well as marketing reasons...chances of that are all but gone.
As I also said in the Artest thread, this team must rebuild now. TMac is damaged goods. Yao is damaged goods. It's time to blow it up. No reason to re-sign Artest in my opinion.