Originally Posted by rocketeer

we'll have to see how the year finishes playing out but i have a hard time seeing yao as a bench player with a "real" starting center over him. there just aren't many centers out there better than yao even at the level he's played at so far this year.

but like i said, the season has to play out. so far all we know is that yao has played in 5 games and been pretty solid before picking up a fairly minor injury.