<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">New building. New uniforms with the new color scheme. New head coach. Four new assistant coaches. But no Yao. Yao Ming casts such a long shadow and is so important to the new place these Rockets want to go -- it's called the NBA playoffs, which some of you old-timers might remember -- that his absence at a historic Media Day on Thursday could only be called conspicuous. Just as one always notices when Yao is present, one also notices when he isn't. </div> Full article: http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/s.../bk/bkn/2134417