NBA Today – Yahoo! Sports

Categorized as: Fantasy Basketball, Houston Rockets, Injuries
Posted on: December 19th, 2005

NBA Today – NBA – Yahoo! Sports

All-Star Yao Ming of the Houston Rockets missed his first game of the season and the third of his NBA career Sunday night because of a sore right big toe that will sideline him indefinitely. Yao, the leading vote-getter after the first set of returns for this season’s All-Star game, is averaging 19.9 points and 9.0 rebounds.

Fantasy Impact

Yao is big in more than one sense. While his play hasn’t been what some people want, you can’t argue that 20 and 9 is a bad thing. And it’s going to hurt when 20 and 9 drops out of your lineup. So, what’s a fella to do?

I wouldn’t recommend picking up Dikembe Mutombo. He got 31 minutes of burn with Yao out, but failed to product much of anything in that time. He’s just getting a little old to be anything more than a big body in the middle.

Stromile Swift forgot to step up his game with Yao gone, so I can’t very well tell you he’s a good pickup. Juwan Howard might be able to do something for you, but really, do you want to drop someone for Juwan Howard?

The only person who really benefits here is Tracy McGrady, who once again has Orlando style free reign of the team. Of course, he’s not someone you pick up off the waiver wire. So, where does that leave us?

Pretty much, if you’ve got Yao, you’ll just have to hold tight. If you don’t have Yao, you’ll just have to hold tight.

In other news

Apparently the new pink is starting a blog for each individual piece of news. The old pink is Dwyane Wade splitting defenders and dunking the ball (Thanks to HoopsAddict.com)

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