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Chinese basketball star Yao Ming said here Tuesday he was looking forward to being back in the game after a year of recovery from his foot injury.

Yao, who is in Taipei for a charity exhibition game, told a press conference that he had recovered quite well from the injury after a year of treatment.

“When I return to Houston, I will start training,” he said. “In the past year, I have been working very hard so that I could play again.”

But he did not answer whether he would play in the coming new season starting October.

About 40 days away from his 30th birthday, Yao said he hoped to continue playing basketball after turning 30 and also engage in managing the Shanghai Sharks, a team in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA), which he bought in 2009.