Battered but Not Broken Yao Ming Battles Back from Injury to Resurrect His NBA Careerhe Houston Rockets Chinese center Yao Mingwill play no more than 24 minutes in each NBA game next season as he returns from injury.An NBA game lasts 48 minutes, so Yao will only play half of it.The team's athletic trainer Keith Jones told the Houston Chronicle newspaper Thursdaythat the time limit would be applied strictly,adding that the seven-feet-six-inch Yao would even skip lots of practiced sessionsto limit the impact on his surgically repaired left foot.Ahead of his long-awaited return, Yao spoke with Anjali Rao for the Talk Asia program.Everything looks perfect on pictures, I mean those X-ray pictures,and today, I'm walking on it well, full pressure on my foot already.But before I start to play the first real NBA game,I still have some (things) I need to (be) concern(ed) about.You know, many thought that your playing days were over when the injury happened.How did you feel when you heard people talking like that?Well, that shocked me, of course. You know you play this game almost 20 years,since you know (I was) nine, and one day...well everybody know(s) that your career is going to end at some day.But just I'm not ready for that day yet, right? Maybe I'm 24 or 25, I watch...