http://www.nba.com/2009/news/feature...309/index.html........After limping and gimping around on his left knee through December, McGrady was put on a two- to three-week rehab assignment on Monday to improve his conditioning. "Conditioning" was the word the team used, deliberately so.
Now, in sports, you can be conditioning to rehabilitate a surgically-repaired part -- like, "Gilbert Arenas is still conditioning his knee." Or, there's conditioning when you're not in shape -- like, "David Aldridge is conditioning, and we hope he'll be able to finish the mile-and-a-half run sometime in the next decade."
So, which is it with McGrady?
"He's conditioning," Rockets GM Daryl Morey said Tuesday. "Tracy said it himself. He wants to do his off-season conditioning program. So that's what he's doing."
That's great. Except ... it's not the offseason.
"He couldn't do it in the offseason because of the (knee) surgery," Morey said.
If this were someone else, it probably wouldn't be that big of a deal. But it's McGrady, who disclosed on the Rockets' media day, four months after his May knee surgery, that the knee was about "75, 80 percent," and also said he would probably need shoulder surgery after the '08-09 season was over, despite having had that cleaned out in the offseason, too.
Hence, no offseason conditioning program.
The Rockets are putting a positive spin on this, but Waiting for Tracy is a play that nobody in Houston wants to see anymore -- up to and including the big man, Yao Ming.
"They don't speak," an extremely plugged-in person tells me. "And Yao wants him out."
That's not likely this season, as McGrady's $20.3 million is toxic to too many teams' luxury tax plans. Next summer, though, when McGrady will have an expiring, $22.4 million contract, teams may well circle the Rockets looking to make a deal.......
not suprised at all, Yao is quite a high-character guy, and someone that seems to really care about winning and doing the right think. I love TMac's talents, he was born to play this game, but his psyche is that of a total loser. Too bad really, there was a time circa 01-03 when I thought we had a chance to be better than Kobe.
bull , if it was true Yao wouldn't have said it to the media, if you believe these rumours, the joke is on you
Eh...he didn't say it to the media. Somone "involved" said it.
But its probably true. Im sure everyone on that team is unbelievably sick of T-Mac.
denial
wait, you're not happy?
that's good news for rockets fans
I think the source is speculating about Yao's wishes. Not to say they are not correct, just that I don't think Yao is the type to openly complain.
lol, rockets fan trying to deny it
-Mars
what the are you talking about? We all want mcgrady gone but this requires a bit of common sense, someone of yao's character would never say something like this
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/co...ex.html?page=1
it's nydaily so it's probably not true
This is the fifth season Tracy McGrady and Yao Ming have played together in Houston, so you'd think by now that everyone would be comfortable with their roles. Apparently not. McGrady has been privately complaining to friends in recent days about Yao taking too many shots and not being tough enough. Like McGrady has never been accused of either.
I don't think it is because when your "softest" and most injury prone player is talking it's not good for anyone. Next expect Artest to go off the deep end....stay tuned.
T-Mac trade for Starbury! Wait, someone said that already.....
Yao is probably wishing he had the old Stevie Franchise back right now. The one who was fearless, and a dunking machine.
By the way, here's what Yao said in an interview.
http://thegame.podbean.com/2009/01/1...dridge-report/
I remember playing organized basketball. All it takes is one player on your team to act like a spoiled prima donna to screw your entire team chemistry up. You start yelling at each other in practice. The other dude pouts. Perhaps they start playing their own way and hogging the ball. Coach tries to step in but it doesn't help. Might run a few plays the way coach wants it but eventually goes back to ball hogging and pouting.
and now from the man himself
David Aldridge
http://thegame.podbean.com/category/...nd-david-nuno/
I doubt Yao wants him out but listening to his response.... he seemed to be hesitant and ducking the questions. who knows, I dont listen to him often enough, maybe thats just the way he talks.
wow. man, when they first got T-Mac, I thought for sure these guys would end up winning a le together. But injuries and JVG pissing away playoff series that they should have won, completely ruined them. There was no excuse for them not to beat the Mavericks in 04-05 as well as the Jazz in 06-07.
During the next two weeks, watch for the Rockets spin machines to be in full operation trying to put a good face on this.
The reasons for those losses was lack of talent. When other teams can depend on their depth to sustain them for stretches it makes a huge difference in a series. That's what I don't understand about this season. When you finally get a team that can potentially win it all why act like a now? I for one can't wait to see his ass traded.
He's hurt just like Battier is hurt. They both should be sat down right now to heal.
However T-Mac's insistence on playing has hurt the team more than if he just sat down. Both in terms of chemistry and poor play in the court.
Fran Blineberry, commonly known as the mcgrady hater even admits this is false.
Fran,
What do you make of the David Aldridge report that Yao wants TMac out of Houston? Any indication from what you've seen that this could be true?
link: http://www.nba.com/2009/news/features/0 ... se.011309/
Quote: "They don't speak," an extremely plugged-in person tells me. "And Yao wants him out.
[That statement is flat out not true. I know that from first-hand observation. --Fran]
[Here's what I can tell you from first-hand observation. 1 -- I have frequently heard McGrady tell all of us in the media that he would like to see Yao shoot the ball and take over games. What he might have said to a friend privately, I can't say. But I have seen no evidence of jealousy. 2 -- The statement that Yao and McGrady do not speak is just not true. Here's what I saw on Saturday night prior to the Knicks game: McGrady, who was not playing, stopped by his locker to pick up a few things. He then walked to the other side of the room, where leaned down and to Dikembe Mutombo and said, " o, Papa." After exchanging a few other words, McGrady walked to where Yao was sitting in front of his locker, talking to reporters, and he leaned in and tapped him on the shoulder. He asked Yao how he was feeling. They chatted briefly and then McGrady left. With all of that, as I posted in the blog on Saturday, there are many -- likely a majority -- of players in the locker room who have not been happy wtih McGrady's play-or-not-play, in-and-out-of-the-lineup status for much of the season. And there were many who were furious with his "effort" in the Toronto game. I think the entire team is happier now that a decision has been made to keep both McGrady and Ron Artest out of the lineup in order to rehab and get healthy. They want consistency. They want to know who is in the lineup every night and they want to know that the players who play are physically capable and ready to go all-out. --Fran]
I feel so bad sometimes for Rockets fans.
Here's the first spin from the media. Dirty laundry from the lockeroom typically stays there. Where's there's smoke there is fire.
I believe it is 100% true....Tmac has been asked to leave the team and get in shape.......
I believe Yao has had it with him, a Rocket's insider confirms the story, Yao is just too classy to say it to the media.
Tracy needs to apologize, or his butt is gone.....
DD
he can apologize by stepping up his effort.
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