[YAHOO FRONT PAGE NEWS] Magic's Pat Garrity retires from NBA

Who is better, Chinese Magic or Greek T-Mac?

 

My sentiments exactly. I remember just losing any hope of seeing Tmac tear it up in the playoffs when they start talking bout Garrity like that.

He should buy Tmac lunch one of the these days...that man probably owes 2/3 of his paycheck to McGrady. 7 ppg for his career? I'm guessing probably about 6 of those came off of Tracy directly.

Harsh, but true.

 

Well, let's see, one's a 6'7" guard who can't dribble against pressure or make a post entry pass, the other's a 6'4" whiner wtih an over-inflated head who can't shoot.

I'll go with....neither.

 

Lets see now.

Who had the better NBA career - wingz or Pat Garrity

Hmmm.

 

I was watching CNN yesterday and I saw on the bottom of the ticker "NBA player Pat Garrity" and at first I thought it was going to say he had died. That was the only way I could imagine it being newsworthy.

 

Hahaha, that was harsh but too funny

 

Well at least now Chris Quinn will no longer live in Pat Garrity's shadow.

 

A truly captivating story

 

It is kind of impressive to be able to hang around one team for that long in this day and age, scrub or not.

Doesn't Kobe have the longest running active streak with the same team?

 

How does a Pat Garrity thread reach two pages?

Oh well, it's nice to see T-Mac's second best player during some of his Orlando years is retiring. Kind of gives you a nice scope of how messed up the media is for hating on T-Mac for his lack of playoff glory.

 

No disrespect, but what you consider "mediocrity" I consider a hell of an achievement. Only a rare few get to play in the NBA and he succeeded in his field and made millions of dollars. I consider that a winner. I'm guessing there are millions of people who would kill to play basketball for 10 years and would have made millions of dollars by the age of 32. A retired millionaire at by 32, yeah, he's damn successful in my book. Even if he didn't score 20 points a game or grab 10 rebounds a game.

 

You guys'd give your left nut to have Pat Garrity's NBA career.

 

Pat Garrity was never the 2nd best player when T-mac played for Orlando. He wasn't even 3rd best.

 

Geeez houston should sign all of the orlando players tat played in 02-03. and put them all on at the same time with tmac. Maybe itll help him remember how beast he was back then.

 

I was exaggerating a bit to make my point but when you get right down to it with all the injuries to Grant Hill and Mike Miller there were nights during 3/4 years T-Mac was there that Orlando was forced to use line ups with T-Mac/Garrity/Darrell Armstrong as their three best scorers.

 

And the funny thing is he is hella paid off being a scrub for many years.

 

Oh no I agree with you I was just pointing that out. I remember when I think it was the last season T-mac was in Orlando, Pat Burke was the starting Center to open up the season vs. The Knicks. They were saying how important he was. When Pat Burke and an old Patrick Ewing are your centers you know you're going to have problems. Then throw in the overweight Shawn Kemp. All 3 of these guys were important players in the rotation. Pretty sad.

 

I'll take that in stride as a fun jibe by you.

But if you really think that highly of Pat Garrity, then be my guest.

I don't see how Pat Garrity is any better than Steve Novak. Probably even worse, since Steve is a better shooter and they're both slow, white PFs who can't guard anyone.

 

It was Andrew DeClerq. Andrew DeClerq?! Who other than the most die-hard Magic fan from those days would even know who Andrew DeClerq is?!

No idea where he's been after that too.

Pat Burke, Pat Ewing and Shawn Kemp were earlier in the Orlando Tmac era. '01-'03 I think.

But yeah, it was pathetic, hearing them talk about how important scrubs and stars who have nothing left in the tank are to that team.

Thing was, they had something going there, with a young Mike Miller and Darrell Armstrong. And then they had to trade Miller to shore up their rebounding with Drew Gooden, and all they got in return from the wings was Gordan Giricek, who isn't bad, but sure is no Mike Miller.

Good thing Gooden played like a beast in that Detroit series. Good times, those.

 

I don't see the point of making fun of role players like Garrity.
He could do basically one thing, but he was VERY good at that being tall enough, able to catch&shoot quickly and move off the ball.
He actually made life easier for McGrady being him an easy target and a player opposing teams needed to respect.

A solid 7th/8th man good for 25 minutes, not everyone can be a superstar.