--- Who is to blame for Yao's injuries?

I can't speak for the other planets, but Ballerblogger.com is the best 1-stop place for NBA basketball on our world's world wide web, and today they posted an interesting quote from China's state-run media:

"A commentary in the Communist Party-run People’s Daily dismissed the widely-held view in the United States that Yao’s repeated injuries stemmed from training with China’s national team during the NBA off-season.

“It can only be said that the NBA game has worn Yao Ming out,” the paper fired back.

“The physical beating taken by every player due to the long season, the high level of match play and the endless travel cannot be overlooked.

“The NBA should consider changing its match scheduling from

On June 16, 2009, in a blog entitled "Dynasty for Sale or Rent," I wrote, "Maybe beating Orlando was the easy part. The hard part might be bringing the band back together next year."

I may have jinxed the Lakers because since then Trevor Ariza left the Lakers for the most incomprehensible of reasons, and now, things seem to have fallen apart with Lamar Odom.

It's amazing how many parrots accuse Kobe Bryant of being selfish while completely overlooking Lamar Odom's LONG history of self-serving and very bad judgment -- a history of bad decisions that goes very far beyond candy bing eating.

--- HIGH SCHOOL

Lamar Odom played for 3 different high schools, not because his family was moving, but he dumped teams in perceived furtherance of his basketball career.

--- COLLEGE

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