winger is known as Buff, but a better nickname could be Bear, since he has a tendency to hibernate during the season. But Canucks fans, remembering the impact Byfuglien had on last year’s playoff series, poked him with the boisterous booing from ...

The 7-foot-6, 310-pound (2.29 meter, 141 kilogram) Houston Rockets center in May broke his left foot, ruling him out of the second-round playoff series against the Los Angeles Lakers. A year earlier, three pins were inserted in the foot after Yao fractured a navicular bone, the Yahoo report said.