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At this point rj and t-mac would cancel each other out. I can't see t-mac averaging more than 13 ppg. Then their is the unknown factor. At least we know rj is durable. T-mac has been often injured. I wouldn't want to even take a chance.
"Yao is out for the season with a foot injury and the team acknowledged Tuesday that it’s trying to deal McGrady, who was unhappy with his playing time as he tried to come back from offseason knee surgery." Link
Even if there is a way to get this clown, why would anyone want his sorry ass?
At this point rj and t-mac would cancel each other out. I can't see t-mac averaging more than 13 ppg. Then their is the unknown factor. At least we know rj is durable. T-mac has been often injured. I wouldn't want to even take a chance.
Actually moving McGrady the hard part
Mike Monroe
So Tracy McGrady has been granted an indefinite leave of absence from the Rockets, who insist they will try a little harder now to trade him.
The question most begging an answer: Can there really be an NBA team that wants the league's highest-paid player when history suggests he is little but an enormous drag on any team's ability to compete at a high level?
McGrady on Monday told Yahoo! Sports columnist Marc J. Spears the team that gets him will employ a hungry player.
“I don't care if I go to the damn moon,” he said.
If there were a team on the moon, it would have to be called the Lunar Ticks to want him.
The fact that best defines McGrady is astounding, but undeniable: In the 62-year history of the NBA, he is the only scoring champion who never has won a playoff series.
If you're looking for the most talented underachiever in league history, it is a two-man race: McGrady and Derrick Coleman.
Coleman, remarkably athletic at 6-foot-10 and 270 pounds, could have been one of the most dominant power forwards of all time. Instead, just like McGrady, he was a stats monster who never understood that basketball is a team game played at both ends of the court. But he was on a 76ers team that beat the Hornets in the first round of the 2003 playoffs.
That makes McGrady the NBA's Biggest Loser.
Credit McGrady for working hard this summer to rehabilitate his left knee after microfracture surgery last February.
Then, in keeping with his career-long pattern of believing nothing is more important than his own basketball agenda, he clashed with Rockets head coach Rick Adelman about the schedule for his return. No player has come back, fully healed, from microfracture procedure before a full year of rehab.
McGrady, though, insisted he not wait until February to resume his career. He wanted to play his way back into shape, team be damned.
Adelman's players have overachieved in the absence of Yao Ming and McGrady because they have played hard and smart at both ends of the court.
Throw McGrady in that mix?
Not on Adelman's watch. He refused to befoul the chemistry by adding an element that doesn't comprehend there is no ‘I' in MVP.
Eventually, Adelman agreed to give McGrady seven or eight first-half minutes. The coach promised that as McGrady got closer, physically, to the level that had made him an All-NBA player twice in his first five seasons in Houston, he'd re-evaluate.
After six games, McGrady decided he was ready for more. Adelman disagreed and told the player he couldn't say when he would get more time. Then, McGrady's agent asked the Rockets to trade him.
Makes you wonder: Did the Rockets set a clever trap into which McGrady and his representative just fell?
Adelman and the Rockets likely knew McGrady would demand more than eight minutes sooner than later. They easily could have surmised he would respond to Adelman's denial with typical petulance.
Now, they can tell the McGrady idolaters in Houston they are just trying to comply with his wishes by putting him on leave while trying to find another team to take him off their hands.
Therein lies the rub, of course.
The list of teams willing to take on a known team wrecker who also happens to be the league's highest-paid player can't be long.
It's the NBA, of course, a league that has proven P.T. Barnum a sagacious philosopher on many an occasion.
There's probably at least one Earthbound lunatic of a GM willing to accommodate.
T-Mac! Haven't you seen that 's contract!?!? THAT!
The SPurs have more than enough scoring ability. TMAC would cost the team too many pieces and set back progress already made. He brings nothing good to the SPurs.
I didn't read thru this thread, but did anyone see the post-game spurs show last night after the T-wolves game? Richard Oliver got a question from somebody about T-Mac for RJ... and he really blasted into t-mac: "the rest of the team would have to wear haz-mat suits, t-mac is a disease..."
TO THE NO!
they owe us for Scola, there had to have been under the table aspects to that trade, future considerations
problem is, Manu + Fin isn't enough outgoing salary, and if we're going to throw in RJ too, we'd need some good young talent coming back, like Lowry and Ariza, but that's getting pretty silly, teams trading the players they just signed...
I'd love to see us get McGrady for pennies on the dollar, but I just don't see how the salaries would work, it'd have to be a convoluted 5 team trade or something
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