Tracy McGrady will have season ending microfracture surgery

Well, ok, there he goes. That’s too bad, as a healthy TMac made this one of the strongest (on paper anyway) Rockets teams ever.

It was overall a great first act in a career for McGrady. Will he have a second act that cements his place in the pantheon? My heart says yes, my head says no, and my bowels say, yes, but not in Houston.

And microfracture surgery? Maybe it’s like labrum surgery in baseball, less of a death sentence every time, as the technique and rehab improves.

Doesn’t this put the Alston deal in a new light? While some bemoan the fact that our 4 year starting PG is gone, I see it as Morey realizing that we MUST have a viable scoring threat from the PG spot with TMac gone. He looked at what he could get at SG, and this was the best deal out there. Rafer, whatever his virtues and faults, could never be described as a viable scoring threat.

 Brooks and Lowry have the potential to become much more than Alston, while not dropping off too much in other areas. After all, how many PGs are tall enough to really take advantage of Browry? Not Jason Kidd, we learned that already. Williams is real threat for that, but he’s a threat for pretty much everyone anyway. Rafer didn’t exactly shut him down. And Brooks & Lowry (maybe the country act angle?) create real speed mismatches themselves.