In a recent interview between ESPN’s Sam Alipour and Rockets GM Daryl Morey, the Rockets GM stated the following:

“Yao could return at some point in the 2009-10 season and the team no longer feels his broken left foot is a career-threatening injury.”

“Yao Ming is progressing well. I don’t think that [a career-ending scenario] is something that will happen, based on what I’m hearing from the doctors; they do know that the bone will heal and he’ll get back on it. And they have not actually ruled out [his return] this season. I think that’s less likely than likely, but they haven’t ruled it out.

“And next season, the outlook is very good. He just took off the cast for a short period [two weeks ago], so the doctors could examine it, and everything is going well. Everything is on track.”

It sounds like Yao’s foot is FINALLY starting to heal as it should. Let’s hope to see Yao suited up sometime mid-late season of 2010.

Source: ESPN.com

According to the Associated Press the Houston Rockets and Mensah-Bonsu have reached a verbal agreement on a one-year deal. The 6′10, 206 pound forward split time between the Spurs and Raptors last season and has played in just 34 games over the past two years.

Sources: SportsIllustrated.com MyFoxHouston.com

The Houston Rockets and Chase Budinger have agreed to terms on a multi-year deal.

Earlier this off-season the Rockets acquired the rights to Budinger from Detroit. Detroit selected Budinger, out of  The University of Arizona, as the 44th overall pick in the 2009 NBA draft. Budinger led the Rockets in scoring during the 2009 Las Vegas Summer league averaging 17.8 points. Some might remember Budinger for the incident at the University of Houston, where he was stepped on while laying on the ground by the Cougars’ Aubrey Coleman during a game.

Source: Chron.com

Video Link: Budinger face plant.

The Greece Olympiakos announced today that they have signed the Houston Rockets guard Von Wafer and the Denver Nuggets forward Linas Kleiza.

Link to details of Linas Kleizas’ deal: Yahoo! Sports

Link to details of Von Wafer’s deal: Hoopshype.com

Joey Dorsey had an very surprising but great summer league! How much do you think he will actually get to play with the Rockets this season? And do you think Budinger proved enough that he should see minutes as well?

Now that the 2009-2010 NBA Season schedules have been released it has been confirmed… Houston, Sacramento, Milwaukee, New Jersey, and Charlotte all failed to receive a Nationally televised broadcast from either ABC, ESPN, or TNT. 

So I’m guessing no star = 0 air time.

Here’s a link to the full article: Houston Chronicle