Thanks for the support bro.

Most fans here in Houston have turned on T-Mac unfortunately. I’m not one of them. Tracy will definitely be a story next season around the trade deadline when he returns, but for now I guess I will have to endure the endless ramblings of how the Rockets made it to the 2nd round with T-Mac on the sidelines.

Most fans here seem to forget, granted for the sake of their argument, that T-Mac was playing injured through the 2nd part of the 22 game win streak last year and throughout the rest of the year and the 1st round of last year’s playoffs injured.

I’m not a T-Mac obsessed fan nor am I saying that the way he went to the Inactive List was the best way to go about it, however a lot of things were going completely wrong with the Rockets organization at that time. There was tension in the locker room. There was tension on and off the court. There was the bad PR he got for playing one game for every back to back. There is plenty of blame to go around for everyone, from T-Mac to Adleman to Morey.

To me, T-Mac did it the way he did it because he wanted to finish out his contract in Houston. Yes, a part of it was the money, part of it was the ego. But all the same, part of it was business. T-Mac will have a very, very big reason to come back from this surgery close to the trade deadline (when no one will want him in a trade until they see what he can do). The reason? If he wants to be traded, he’s going to have to come back and play like the T-Mac of old. He will HAVE to come back and start living his life above the rim and stop being Kobe’s alternate universe mirror image. If he can do that, there will be teams trading up for him for the 2010 Free Agent Circus™.

However, Houston fans, if he does come back and become the clutch player we all saw in his first few seasons here, the fan base will start cheering him on again. We’re fickle people, all fans are, save a few die-hards that just won’t forgive him.

I just know that T-Mac, in previous seasons, gave it his all and then some, to the best of his ability at the time.

Part of me is excited to see what happens next January / February, part of me doesn’t want to even watch.

We will see.

/rant off