Sean King

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San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Yao's Work is Done

Adrian Wojnarowski: To watch Yao limp and flail and double over to breathe was to understand the reasons with which his sense of obligation brought him back so soon from another broken foot, another surgery. For Yao, this is his life’s lot. For his own preservation, his own crack at a career undiminished, he needs to tell a most unrelenting Chinese sports machine that its days of running him into the ground are gone.