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Houston Rockets (2004-present)
On June 29, 2004, McGrady, Juwan Howard, Tyronn Lue, and Reece Gaines were traded to the Houston Rockets in a seven-player deal that sent Steve Francis, Cuttino Mobley, and Kelvin Cato to the Magic. In his first year with the Houston Rockets, McGrady teamed with 7"6" center Yao Ming, to end the season ranked 5th in the Western Conference. On December 9, 2004, he scored 13 points in the last 33 seconds of a game against the San Antonio Spurs, with four consecutive 3 pointers (one of which was part of a four-point play), including a steal and the game-winning 3 pointer with 1.7 seconds left in the game that helped the Rockets win 81–80.[2][3]
Despite McGrady"s play in the first round of the 2005 NBA Playoffs, Houston was eliminated by the Dallas Mavericks in game seven by 40 points.
In the early 2005–06 season, McGrady missed eight games because of multiple back spasms. His back problems resurfaced on January 8, 2006 when he had to be taken out at halftime in a game against the Denver Nuggets on a stretcher to hospital because of severe back spasms. He had been out for five games. Since his return, the spasms have still been a problem for McGrady. In the 2005–06 season the Rockets were 2-15 in games he did not play in and 2-16 in games McGrady did not finish. While McGrady was injured for five games with his back injury, the Rockets did not win a single game. Other injuries include him falling on his tailbone in a game against the Indiana Pacers.
In the 2006-07 season, McGrady started out slowly, and after missing 7 games with back spasms he visited a doctor. In an interview with TNT, McGrady said that he thought that his body was slowing down. He believed that he could no longer be as explosive as he was in the past due to his back injury. Shortly after another bout with back spasms, McGrady went to Waco, Texas where Dr. John Patterson performed "Synergy Release Therapy" to cure his chronic back problems, particularly the back spasms.[4] Since Yao Ming was having another breakout season, he was deferring to Yao as the number one option.[5] However, since Yao went down with a leg injury, McGrady stepped up his overall play, re-establishing himself as one of the game"s premier players and by doing so has led Houston to the 5th best record in the league. On December 29, 2006, he became the third youngest player in NBA history to reach 14,000 points and 4,000 rebounds.[6] However, in the playoffs, the Rockets lost their first round series to the Utah Jazz 4-3, again preventing McGrady from advancing to the second round of the playoffs. A tear fell down his cheek during the press-conference after losing game seven 103–99 to the Utah Jazz in the 2007 Playoffs.[7] Prior to the series with the Jazz, McGrady had stated in an interview with Stephen A. Smith that if he and the Rockets failed to make it out of the first round again, it was "on me".[8] McGrady is currently under a contract which will end following the 2009–10 NBA season, and the contract is worth an estimated $21.1 million per year.[9]
[edit] Personal life
McGrady has three children - daughters Layla Clarice, Laycee Aloe and son Laymen Lamar- with his wife CleRenda Harris whom he had dated for 10 years. Their son was born on December 27, 2005 during a 82-74 loss against the Utah Jazz in which McGrady left during halftime to see his girlfriend going into labor. The couple were married on September 12, 2006 in Mexico.[10]
McGrady has a close friendship with his teammate Yao Ming.[11] McGrady and Vince Carter are third cousins; McGrady learned that his grandmother and Carter"s grandmother were cousins at a family reunion while he was still in high school and Carter played at the University of North Carolina.[12] The two played together with the Toronto Raptors for two years before McGrady was traded. After McGrady left, he and Carter had a short feud, but this was resolved in a short period of time.[13]
In 2002, McGrady signed a lifetime partnership with Adidas, agreeing to an endorsement deal that will last through his playing career and beyond.[14]
He was on the cover of NBA Live 07.
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3月9日最新的报道(关于成绩的):
HOUSTON, Texas (AFP) - Tracy McGrady had 41 points and nine assists as the Houston Rockets won their 18th consecutive game with a 106-96 win over New Orleans on Saturday.
McGrady fell just six points short of his season high for points as the Rockets extended their franchise-record win streak.
McGrady finished 17-of-27 from the floor, including three-of-eight from the three-point line as the Rockets set a season high with 14 three-pointers.
The Rockets won their sixth in a row since Chinese all-star Yao Ming went out for the season with a stress fracture in his left foot. Yao had surgery earlier in the week.
Houston (42-20) - on a 12-game winning streak at home - has won 22 of 23 and is 27-4 since the start of 2008, pushing it into third place in the Western Conference playoff picture.
The Rockets should have a good chance of winning their next three, playing New Jersey and Charlotte at home sandwiched around a road trip to New Orleans.
McGrady scored 10 points for Houston in the first quarter, but New Orleans led 23-20 at the end of the period on Saturday.
The Rockets rallied in the fourth and cruised to the longest win streak in the NBA this season.
最近的生活:
Tracy McGrady understands he lives a life of privilege, making $19 million as an NBA superstar. But he always thought he had a rough upbringing until he spent a few days last summer in a Darfur refugee camp. He had been convinced to visit the genocide-torn region of Africa by his Houston Rockets teammate, Dikembe Mutombo.
McGrady spoke at his former high school Thursday to spread the message to students.
"I knew it was going to have a huge impact on me," McGrady said. "One night when I was tired from everything that was going on that week, I went to bed about 9 o"clock, but I woke up early because we were leaving the next day. I was just staring at the ceiling, reflecting on everything that I went through, and I actually started crying.
""I"m a pretty tough guy and I really don"t show my emotions," McGrady explained Thursday to about 400 students in Auburndale High School"s auditorium. "I hold "em in, even around my wife and my family. But it was just uncontrollable to the point where I actually just started crying. It got me."
It got him to the point where McGrady has discovered a new purpose for his life. He is the point man for a humanitarian project formed to raise hundreds of millions of dollars, mostly to build schools and train teachers in central Africa.
He chose his old high school to make the announcement Thursday, and showed 10 minutes of a documentary being made to promote the project.
"When you get some success, you want to give back and do charitable things because you feel that"s the right thing to do," McGrady said. "My first year in the league, I thought about giving back and I did give back. But it took me a while to really understand how much of an impact that I have on people. Now that I realize that, being 28 years old, and I want to really expand my charitable effort outside the country."
In Darfur, McGrady saw 4-year-old children in the streets carrying infants on their backs. He saw truckloads of boys carrying AK-47s, much like in the movie Hotel Rwanda, he told the students. He heard stories of children being taken from their mothers and shot.
"Tracy decided to go to the worst human rights and humanitarian crisis in the entire world - worse than Somalia, worse than Iraq, worse than Afghanistan - and he wanted to go to shine a spotlight on the lives of these people," said John Prendergast, a former White House aide who is guiding McGrady on the project and the film.
The working title of the documentary is "Not a Game," a phrase McGrady uses in the film. It will take at least two more months to complete, after which Prendergast hopes to market it to HBO or ESPN.
McGrady has personally pledged $75,000 so far. He said the NBA will back the project, and he has asked 11 other NBA players for direct help. Mutombo, having been born in Zaire, already has spent some $16 million of his own money on hospitals and schools.
On Thursday, city manager Bobby Green kicked off the project by presenting a check for $1,000 on behalf of the Auburndale city commission, and said "I"ve never been more proud that Tracy McGrady is from the city of Auburndale."
T-Mac, having visited the other end of the earth, expressed an appreciation of his hometown.
"This will be something great that I can do forever, until I leave this earth. This will never go away," he said. "Some things you can"t even control. It comes upon you and you either accept it or you don"t. I accept it. It"s a great thing. I can see how much of a difference and how much of an impact that I can have.
"Granted, everybody in here isn"t going to participate. But I definitely reached a few of these kids in here. I touched them today, and they"re going to be part of that and that"s all you can ask for."
个人资料
Tracy McGrady
Tracy Lamar McGrady, Jr. (born May 24 1979, in Bartow, Florida), commonly nicknamed T-Mac, is an American professional basketball player currently positioned at starting shooting guard and often switches to playing small forward, which would make him a swingman for the Houston Rockets in the National Basketball Association (NBA).