. >> what about tracy mcgrady and ron artest, how does this impact the team going forward?>> with mcgrady it doesn't change much. he has to get himself well. he's as uncertain as yao. is there's really not a lot of difference in some ways except that they know the course of treatments with mcgrady. he had the microfracture surgery. he begins on-court workouts. that's very, very telling portion of his rehab begins next month. with artest, he's a free agent. does he come back to a team with this much uncertainty? by the time he's making that decision, the rockets would have a much better idea of yao's course of treatment and prognosis than they have now. and so that might work itself out in the time it takes for artest to make that kind of a decision, and then the other thing that we kind of know about ron is he has such great confidence in himself and in the rockets as they were at the end of the year that he could feel we got me, we got some of these guy, we're okay that. would be sort of the typical ron way the look at it. so some of the same things he will have to weigh w