http://www.cleveland.com/nba/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/sports/1235901358264660.xml&coll=2 After microfracture knee surgery last week, there are some who are speculating Tracy McGrady has played his last game as a Rocket. His contract is up next year and the team was trying to trade him before it was revealed he needed the career-threatening procedure. At the least, he's looking at a 6-12 month recovery process. This season, the Rockets have played much better without McGrady than in the past two injury-filled years and may be at the point where they are ready to move on, which has fed the speculation about a future in Houston without him.
I'm sitting here trying to figure out how Houston would be able to trade him without him showing everyone else that he has fully recovered. Unless he recovers fully, I don't see him being traded.. I just see him coming off the bench until his contract runs out.
lol he will be an expiring next next year teams looking to cut budgets will definitely be trying to get him
You have to be able to pass a physical to be traded and there isn't a team in this league who would pass him right now. Next year with $20 million coming off the books that might be another story.
T Mac could be in a wheelchair and his expiring will still have significant value - especially in our struggling economy.
Only if he stays in the wheelchair. Used to be, the cap number was all teams cared about - if you were expiring, you were gold. But look at how very few expiring deals got traded this year. No one wanted Marbury's deal for their books? The economy has sunk so low, team revenues have dropped so steeply, that owners aren't willing to pay a guy like that off, even for a few months. What potentially makes McGrady attractive is that while rehabbing, insurance picks up 80% of his salary.Should he not play at all next year, Les would only be on the hook for about $4.5M. The Rockets will almost certainly string out his rehab as long as they can simply for that reason. And other teams would love to have that rebate as well. A max contract to come off your books AND you'll pay only a portion of that over the year? Win-win.
I don't think people who joined in 2008 or 2009 should be allowed to start threads anymore. I would say 90% of threads come from them and most of them, unnecessary or already posted. Knee-jerked, simple-thoughts, or just two cents that don't have much to discuss.
I don't mind 2007 either. I've made 2 threads since I've been here, one here and one in the lounge. I don't create threads and I'm not trying to offend others, but really, most of recent threads have been pretty pointless and redundant. And 2008 members.
That's not necessarily true. Rumor has it that the Rockets were inquiring about Marbury for Tmac. The Knicks even reported that they did not want Tmac. I don't know if there were any other deals on the table but I would bet they recieved other offers albeit bad contracts for starbury.
Like NY was able to trade Marbury on the last year of his mega deal? The only diff there is Marbury can still play (some). TMac is done and the only way we could trade him would be to another team wanting to unload a boatload of bloated contracts on players that can't play. Mark it - we have to eat Tracy's remaining contract. Maybe a buyout but I don't even think that is likely. But a trade? No way. Not even in 2010.
This will be the long awaited 2010, and everyone would be willing to give up something for an expiring contract, especially 23+mil in 2010
