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Camp notes: Health woes and a new Rocket launcher

By Marc Stein
ESPN.com

Friday, October 20, 2006

HOUSTON -- Five observations from Rockets camp: 1. How's Yao? Blister issues. Toenails. Surgeries for ankle and foot. Yao Ming's lower extremities have received considerable medical attention -- and media coverage -- in his four NBA seasons, which is obviously troubling given Yao's importance to the Rockets and the challenges he faces, even when at full strength, to keep up with the league's ever-quickening pace. Yet the feeling around the team, coach Jeff Van Gundy aside, is that Yao's la ...

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