BEIJING - Houston Rockets All-Star center Yao Ming will
have to wait up to a week before he knows whether he will need
surgery on his broken left foot.

The playing future of the 7-foot-6 Yao is in question amid
reports from the team doctor that the hairline fracture in his foot
could keep him out all of next season, and potentially end his
career.

"It hasn't been decided yet," Yao's agent, Eric Zhang, told
The Associated Press on Friday. "He is still in the process of
group consultations of doctors holding different opinions and
different plans. The result of the consultations is due within a
week."

Before that there is no way of telling whether surgery will be
performed, Zhang said.