If the Rockets did Tracy a favor and let him play, to showcase he still has skills, would his trade value be higher? Lets assume he still does have enough skills to still be a good nba player. Not an elite player on a kobe level where he use to be. For arguement sakes lets say he is somewhere around the skill level of Caron or Iggy. If he is somewhere in that 2nd level of talent would his trade value be higher?
They are sitting him b/c he can (and has been known to) veto potential deals by faking injuries and or electing surgery without consulting the team. They will let him hang safely in Chicago until he is gone.
your about to get flamed or your thread is going to get locked... this really didn't deserve its own thread when there are tons of mcgrady threads already
Uh The Rockets do Tracy a favor..... First off Mcgrady would never play again for the Rockets even if they asked him to. They exiled him and he wants no part of the organization anymore. If Mcgrady came back he would be doing them a favor, not him.
No. We all have seen how Tmac playedin those 48 minutes. No defense, no explosiveness, couldn't even finish around rim. Basicly he couldn't do anything else except passing. He may or may not be good again later in his career, but he woudn't have been good for the first half of this season.
Well, I think that both the Rockets organization and Tracy knows that he is not really ready and can't go much further than 7 minutes, and the Rockets may potentially lower his market value by playing him more.
the rockets already did tracy $23M favors this season. plus, his value as an expiring contract would still be higher than that of him as a player, even if he was playing). remember, even if he was playing well it's just a matter of time before he's injured again. teams don't want to give up a lot for a 30 year old often injured player, even if he still is B+ talent. his contract on the other hand is very valuable to certain teams.
Sorry I tried to put a poll on here too, that was the reason i started a new one. I really wanted to get the opinions of some of the fans who felt the Rockets made a bad move by "disrespecting" Tracy, not letting him play some real minutes to show what he could do. To me even if he where still a good player his trade value is higher now because they showed they weren't going to playing nice with him. That could be why DM said, "its not a matter of Tracy being a great player." Had teams been believing the Rockets might buy Tracy out to save money the fewer teams to bid on him and his value goes down.
I think so, last year he averaged 16 points a game and if his surgery and his grover training really improved him a guy who gets somewhere between 18-22 pts a game would definitely be trade-able look at Amare he's averaging 21 ( although he has a phenominal fg % too
I believe this thread failed on a massive, though not catastrophic, scale. Sure, the same stupid question has been asked in every T-Mac related thread since the start of the season, but the fact that this crap will all be over soon is comforting.
*Sighs* I can't believe there are still people who think T-Mac can benefit another team this year on the court when they're forced to return $23+ mil worth of salary back to the Rockets(Les ain't paying more tax money). Do you realize how difficult it is to put together $23 mil worth of crap and draft picks that matches T-Mac likely production? T-Mac is the highest paid player in the league. Even if we show him off, he's not going to be worth his salary in production against even some of the worst contracts.
not entirely true. Morey did say that t-mac had the 3rd highest salary in the league behind I think it was kobe and Jermaine. It's obviously not that big a deal but still, it is a misconception that he is in fact the highest paid player...or morey was wrong and he's lying to himself to feel better....
I know to some of you anything that has Tracy in the title is a fail. Ok, i understand that, but im just interested in knowing if the TOFs can see by not playing tracy and showing that they aren't willing to do him any favors we raised his trade value.
2004-05 Houston Rockets NBA $14,487,000 2005-06 Houston Rockets NBA $15,694,250 2006-07 Houston Rockets NBA $16,901,500 2007-08 Houston Rockets NBA $19,014,187 2008-09 Houston Rockets NBA $20,370,437 2009-10 Houston Rockets NBA $25,000,000
They could have let him played, Mcgrady could have gotten injured like usual then his trade value would be less than it is currently.
