Oh, fudge. And here I had a nice juicy batch of one-liners to serve up regarding that VERY subject..... This wouldn't have anything to do with teammates being balanced enough to complement each other on both ends of the floor, thereby making the team as a whole much more difficult to defend, subsequently leading to better team chemistry and winning more games and such.... ....would it?
Yes they would be able to contend w/o McGrady. Any team would benefit from a healthy TMac, but AB does not need to play along side him to be effective Last year without TMac they took the eventual champions to 7 games. If Yao had not gotten injured they stood a good chance of beating the lakers.