[Simmons] "Tracy McGrady, you are officially indefensible for the rest of eternity"

he hit it on the nail guys. and there's a lot more wrong with tmac this season besides the surgery announcement.

 

Including Simmons' mostly accurate assessment, I think most Rockets fans would just like to completely forget that TMac even exists anymore.

The man is so pathetic you just wish he would move to some other corner of the globe, like East Timor perhaps, and never come back.

 

Its not that he's going through the knee surgery for no reason...its the fact that his pain threshold is so low that he needs surgery to try to eliminate all the pain. No heart whatsoever. He didnt need surgery...but at the same time, his mental instability caused him to take drastic measures.

And the way he handled the trade deadline situation was pathetic.

 

The first time I read this post, I thought you were talking about T-Mac in the first paragraph.

Rezdawg's post made me realize you were calling Simmons the idiot.


I found my misunderstanding to be funny and thought I'd share. (Oh, and to share that my reading comprehension blows.)

 

the best sportswriter around.

LOVE the fact that he supported my theory on the timing of the announcement...a thread I started where lots of you SheMac lovers flamed me.

What he said was right on. How can some of you not see that? (except Tmac_1, who I think is TMac's younger brother)

 

Wow, i have to say i agree, what T-Mac has done is a total lack of respect for the organization.

The Rockets should announce anything on their players regarding injuries, T-Mac did kill a trade for sure, because there was no reason to say it 4 friggin days before the deadline, and that inexcusable lack of ethics.

The best this team and the organization can do, is have a great playoff performance without him on the PO roster, so he is still the only player unable to get out of the first round.

Next year let him play as sixth man or sit him.

 

It's kinda like my wife agreeing that the reffing and the sports results are all rigged. Thanks honey, but we real men already knew that.

 

Great post but some people just can't seem to stop beating a dead horse, even after the horse has decomposed and become grass....

 

Les announced publicly that he won't trade T-Mac BEFORE t-mac made the knee surgery announcement. saying that he did this to avoid a trade doesn't make sense.

also, as andre ware pointed out on 610 this morning, no one, not even t-mac, gets a very serious knee surgery for some ulterior motive. rehab is going to be hell.

 

Les is a great man. If it was me, I'd be killing myself for those $44M I throw away.


If Les is OK with TMAC, we should be Ok with him too.

 

I don't know if you guys read the rest of that article, but it's all about the NBA's financial woes. I'm just wondering if these have hit the Rockets as hard because of all the Chinese advertisers and endorsment deals. With teams panicking about finances, will the combination of T-Macs expiring contract and the advertising dollars that the presence of Yao brings allow us to stock up on talent and take advantage of the times?

 

To add to this, the city of Detroit is in absolute turmoil financially. I wonder if it's possible to steal Prince, Hamilton, and Maxeil for Tmac. Their fans would fall for the salary dump like they did when they got Iverson, and we'd get a steal.

http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=bjpylf

 

there are a few teams that will not be affected:

lakers, boston, cleveland, ny knicks, spurs and I would also put the Rockets solely because of Yao Ming.

Actually I think I would add Portland and Utah on that list too they have great ownership and a fan base.

Sacramento would have been the same if the Maloof hadnt lost millions (i heard like a hundred million) on that billion dollar ponzi scheme.

 

Last thing that I'll add here is another paragraph from the article mentioning the trade we made:

"The most important trade for playoff purposes? A seemingly minor three-teamer between Houston (landed Brian Cook and Kyle Lowry), Orlando (landed Rafer Alston) and Memphis (landed a 2009 first-rounder from Orlando). It happened because Memphis is hemorrhaging money and supposedly saved $2 million, even if it meant turning Lowry (who had been outplaying 2008 lottery pick Mike Conley for two solid seasons) into a meaningless pick in one of the worst drafts ever. I'd say the Grizzlies hurled a flaming bag of dog feces at their fans, but they don't have any fans. Still, that trade (as well as the canceled Chandler deal, New Orleans' way of turning the Turd Sandwich into its team's official mascot) reminded me of the shady stuff that happened in the late '70s and early '80s, when the league struggled to find a foothold, franchises hopped around, and every trade happened because of money or because a team wanted to nefariously dump a starter who was snorting enough cocaine to kill a police horse."

 

From what I hear, only 12 teams will actually make money next season. Thats means there are lots of talent pools to take from!

 

Can people please quit saying he's going to be doing nothing for his pay. He was injured ON THE JOB. Have none of you ever heard of workers compensation? You get injured due to your work, your employer is responsible for you. Tracy didn't crash while riding a moped, or snowboarding like some other dumb NBA players. He played for the Houston Rockets that's why he's injured.

 

How the heck do you know what his pain threshold is??? You are not feeling his pain, so you have no ideal of what he's going thru.

To say that he quit, he handled the situation poorly is an individual statment... But none of us can state how he handles the pain.


As Uprising Said:

 

jvg said, while coaching the rockets, that mcgrady's pain tolerance level is very low. so i will take that.

it's nothing personal. everyone just has a different body build.

 

Simmons is not funny; he has not been for years.

Tracy obviously could not play with the injury--he was not faking there. It's an unfortunate situation that was not handled particularly well. Let's leave it there and hope for the best for Tracy. As for the Rockets, they just need to move on.

 

http://cmimemphis.com/grizblog/node/345