<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>However, Yao was on the charter flight to Memphis and is expected to play tonight against the Grizzlies. "He's going to be all right," Rockets coach Rick Adelman said. "(The medical staff) thinks Yao is going to be fine. He just needed a day. He needed to recover from what's been bothering him." Bonzi Wells was back at practice after missing Wednesday with the flu, and Steve Francis, who was the first to show symptoms a week earlier, is now fully recovered. T-Mac stays home Tracy McGrady, suffering from swollen tendons in his left knee, did not make the trip to Tennessee. He remained in Houston to continue treatment on what is being called a sprain. McGrady is not expected to play at home on Saturday against Toronto and said he could miss another week. "He's day-to-day," coach Rick Adelman said. "He won't play (today), and we'll see what happens from that point on." In stitches Shane Battier came off the practice floor sporting the six new stitches and the black eye he acquired in Chicago during the last road trip. "I'm quite the running joke in the family with my soft, delicate skin," he said laughing. "That's all right. I moisturize for a reason, to stay soft. "It's unfortunate that my legacy in this league is going to be how many times I got stitched up. So I'm going to try to make a few more baskets, so my legacy is not the stitches." Holiday rest Rick Adelman figures the Rockets will benefit from the five-day holiday gap in the schedule. "I hope so," he said. "I was hoping it would help Tracy (McGrady) a little bit more. But it didn't. Still, we were able to take a couple of days off and regroup and (have) gone hard the last couple of days."</div> Source: Houston Chronicle
