According to an article written just today by Adrian Wojnarowski titled, "Rockets Could Lose Yao for Season, If Not Longer," Yao Ming's career may be over.

In the article, Wojnarowski states that the Rockets have stated, in private, to league peers that it could be a full season before Yao may possibly come back from the injury to his left foot.

This is the same foot that had three pins inserted a year ago to help stabilize the bone. It was to help protect the navicular bone, but in the playoffs the bone cracked again.

A league executive told Yahoo! Sports, “It sounds like he’s missing most of next season, if not the entire 82 games. That’s all that [the Rockets] will concede quietly, but they know it’s probably much worse.”

Daryl Morey, general manager of the Rockets, refused to comment, and a team spokesman said they would not comment until additional testing on Yao's foot was finished.

Wojnarowski's last quote was, "Rest assured, Houston has long been fearful that Yao’s responsibilities to the Chinese national team were rapidly contributing to his breakdown, and perhaps they’ve finally been met. Yao wouldn’t have missed the Beijing Olympics for the world, but it was clear he wasn’t fully healed in those Games. The Rockets paid a price for his nationalism, his obligation, and now the darkest fears are close to confirmation: It isn’t just a season on the brink for Yao Ming, but perhaps a career."