Tracy McGrady will have season ending microfracture surgery

by UofTOrange on Feb 23, 2009 12:58 PM CST in Player Analysis Comment 2 comments

Tracy McGrady will have surgery on his injured knee on Tuesday. This was announced by the team as his meeting with Dr. Cole in Chicago confirmed the diagnosis.

As much as we have been down on his play this year, no one from The Dream Shake wants him to do anything but get healthy. We wish him luck and hope to see him playing basketball again as soon as possible.

Here's my one piece of advice to Mr. McGrady: If you want this, to be a basketball player again, it will take every bit of hard work you have in you. I hope that you realize this and will come back with all of your effort. If not, the surgery should still help you grow cartilage and will make your life easier as you get older, so no harm done. Good luck to you sir, in the end, you will always be thought of fondly.

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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.

by Xiane on Feb 23, 2009 1:45 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Talking to myself here, but

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.

by Xiane on Feb 23, 2009 1:53 PM CST reply actions 0 recs