Trust me. You don't spend as many hours on the job conjuring up that many negative things to say about a person unless you hate them. Im thinking McGrady hurt his feelings somehow and Blinebury is such a man that he gets back at him by defaming him in his worthless articles.
something must have happened during the 04-05 season. tmac probably declined an interview from him or something.
Ok so I went through this article and pointed out the parts I felt were just poor journalism. If you read this and don't think the same, I don't know what to say. It's the same old song with Tracy McGrady, always about him(Baseless insult. If you're going to throw that out there you've got to come up with something better than what you write below). This time T-Mac sent out an e-mail to inform the basketball world that he would be making his season debut on Wednesday in Minneapolis. Then he said it was just a goal. Then he said he was misunderstood(Uh. Is this a big deal? I havent even heard about this nor do I even care). Another one of those embarrassing misunderstandings that seems to follow T-Mac around like toilet paper stuck to the bottom of his adidas(WTF? Who's embarassed. You should be embarassed for that line.). Like when McGrady said, "It's all on me" prior to the 2007 first-round playoff series against the Utah Jazz and then, after the loss, said "It was never on me."(Apparently that year it WAS all on mcgrady because no one else showed up to play in that series. Frankly, tracy was the only guy who played worth a darn. If luther head juwon howard, rafer alston and whoever else wouldn't have played so poorly, no one would even remember mcgrady saying that its on him) When Ron Artest said last week on his visit back to town with the Lakers that his one-season stay in Houston was "very challenging," he was referring greatly to the daily diva routine of McGrady.(WOW what a wonderfully placed quote. A meaningless statement. You speculate that he thinks Mcgradys a diva. RON ARTEST thinks mcgrady is a diva. Laughable) Coach Rick Adelman was furious. The members of the front office rolled their collective eyes. Many of McGrady's teammates felt betrayed.(Did they really Fran? Still waiting on a quote.....SOMETHING. What a poor job of backing up such strong statements) Now T-Mac is back with another chorus. McGrady has been taking part in some of the workouts at practice during the past few weeks. But reports out of those practices have said that he can't go flat-out for an entire practice and is nowhere near 100 percent of his former self. In other words, he looks fine -- for someone who is eight or nine months removed from microfracture surgery.(So you're telling me he's fine. I mean....HE IS 8 months removed from surgery no? Thats exactly what he is....What the hell is your point?) McGrady, in fact, had lauded his teammates for their strong start to the season. Yet he had once again managed to put the spotlight onto himself, where he likes it to be. (He did? Did anyone else notice? I sure as hell haven't). Until it gets too hot and he withers(baseless insult. Mcgrady has had his best performances in the post season). There are many reasons for McGrady to want rush himself back onto the court. For one, he is in the final year of a contract that pays him roughly $23 million this season and wants to keep his value up for the next one. For another, he feels the need to re-establish his credentials after last season's disappointment that was followed by the Rockets finally winning a playoff series while he watched from the sidelines(SO you're a mind reader now I see. This just keeps getting worse). What's changed this time is that the Rockets are not held hostage to preseason expectations of being a championship contender. They're playing an entirely different style of basketball that does not mesh with his game. "We are not the same team we were last year," Adelman said to the Houston Chronicle. "We had Yao and things we could fall back on and work (McGrady) in, work him out. We don't have that capability this year. Anytime you throw a player into the mix, it's going to impact the team."(LOL this is compelling stuff. Only Blineberry can turn standard coachspeak into a mcgrady insult. "We're a different team, we dont have yao or mcgrady. That impacts the team" I bet after that quote fran was thinking to himself WOW there's the quote I needed!) Adelman also said McGrady "has a long ways to go as far as running the court." He can't move defensively. He lacks explosiveness.(ok..so what exactly did adelman say. Did he say he has a long way to go? if thats all he said I don't see how you can follow up that quote with the next two sentences because theyre not quotes from adelman and the whole intent of this paragraph was to get adelmans opinion on mcgrady. That's what I was expecting. Not just some words you picked out of your a$$) Is anyone else amazed that this guy actually has a job writing for NBA.com? This is the least professional article I've ever read. There is no story to begin with and the statements he makes are very definitive yet there is nothing there to support what he says.
You've spent so much time/energy on this thread and the article it makes me think you don't get out much. Seriously, you're obsessing about this to the point that I think maybe Fran unfriended you on Facebook and you're looking for revenge.
Looks like you're taking some tips from fran with your craptacular speculation skills and lame insults. If you didn;t want to read a post then why did you open the thread to begin with. I'm a paying member on this blog i can write about whatever i feel is worth saying. This type of article is the reason why mcgrady appears depressed all the time. I mean Blineburry just publicly blasted him on NBA.com and why? Because he's trying to get healthy and play basketball again? To me this is unacceptable and it shouldn't be published. I take this sort of stuff seriously because basketball players are people first, and I do believe its against the law to defame someone publicly for things that aren't true.
I don't know. I'm a pretty devout rockets fan, and last time i checked mcgrady is still a member of this team. I stick up for any of our players if this kind of article was written about them. What makes it so bad for me is that the association that mcgrady plays for and makes money for is responsible for publishing this. If this just showed up on frans blog i wouldn't care, but NBA.com? Really?
With one difference. We checked on his track record before the job. The Rockets did trade for him. So that has been done. Regarding how you treat your employer, he is still your employer. It is just funny how someone like Blinebury can write like this on nba.com. This can't be more subjective, sarcastic and does violate how a journalist should write articles on national level.
Just my opinion, my friend. I think everyone should be held accountable for the job they are supposed to do. Hell, we hold mcgrady and all athletes accountable all the time when they do the slightest thing wrong. Why is it so outrageous to get annoyed when someone writes an entire article bashing one of our players for no good reason? At the end of the day bball is just a game to us, but for mcgrady its his job. When garbage like this is written about him it can become a distraction to him, to the team, and it could make him less employable even if its not true because alot of people buy into this stuff.
This is so embarrassing for anyone not a Fran Only Fan like me. His Op-Ed pieces get the best reactions
You studied journalism and posted that sentence about jounalism? If English is your second language I apologize, but even so Blinebury was not breaking news. It was a commentary, and Fran doing this piece on nba.com does surprise me too. Feigen, Justice & Blinebury have all talked about internal locker room problems last year involving TMac's situation. Rafer's name only came out after he was traded. Artest did point his finger publically. Do you really expect Feigen, Justice or Blinebury to quote current players on how they felt about that situation? No one would ever talk to them again. TMac was also skewered by every local radio personality with access to the team and practices. The media didn't invent the reasons these stories have come out. Oh, and Clutch has hinted he knows some things he won't say until appropriate, too. I am a diehard fan of this team and I support every member of it until it gets reported over and over by different sources that a player is hurting the team. In TMac's case no reporting was necessary. He's made it clear with his statements and actions (breaking news on his website, emailing a bogus prediction and lying about his practices with the team, etc.). I'll stiil root for the guy only because he's a Rocket, and I only want him gone the exact minute it benefits the team. Fran, by all accounts, was pretty spot-on here.
The only reason why anyone on this board would care about Blinebury's writing is because it is about McGrady. It is almost guaranteed that whenever a thread about TMac is created, the poo slinging fest begins.
