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Yao Ming missing the entire NBA season will do more than affect the Rockets. (AI Wire Images)

With the chance of Yao Ming missing the entire NBA season, it is more than just the Houston Rockets that are screwed.

The NBA as a game is going to be hurting without Ming playing because he has the biggest following out there. I am not talking a Twitter following like Shaq or Chris Bosh. I am talking the entire nation of China.

If there is no Yao Ming on the floor, there will certainly be less eyes in China on the game.

The Rockets have begun remaking themselves for the post Yao-McGrady era by adding Trevor Ariza but he was viewed as a part of that plan, not the replacement star.

If Yao Ming’s hairline fracture in his left foot does not heal soon, or at all for that matter, the NBA will be in bad shape as it tries to grow into the most popular sport in the world.

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