Tracy McGrady

Basketball Player

Tracy McGrady was born in Bartow, Florida, United States on May 24th, 1979 and is the Basketball Player. At the age of 44, Tracy McGrady biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
May 24, 1979
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Bartow, Florida, United States
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44 years old
Zodiac Sign
Gemini
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$75 Million
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Baseball Player, Basketball Player
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Tracy McGrady Life

Tracy Lamar McGrady Jr. (born May 24, 1979) is an American former professional basketball player.

He is best known for his time in the National Basketball Association (NBA), where he served as both a shooting guard and small forward.

McGrady is a seven-time NBA All-Star, seven-time All-NBA selection, two-time NBA scoring champion, and a one-time champion of the NBA Most Improved Player Award.

He was also inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a member of the Class of 2017. McGrady dropped out of high school and was selected as the ninth overall pick by the Toronto Raptors in the 1997 NBA draft.

Starting his career as a low-minute player, he gradually increased his role with the team, eventually teaming up with his cousin Vince Carter in an exciting pair.

In 2000, he left the Raptors for the Orlando Magic, where he became one of the league's most versatile scorers and a candidate for the NBA Most Valuable Player Award.

He was recalled by the Houston Rockets in 2004, where he joined center Yao Ming to help the Rockets become a perennial playoff team.

He missed his final seasons in the NBA due to injury, and he resigned in 2013 after a brief stint with the Qingdao DoubleStar Eagles of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) and the San Antonio Spurs. McGrady has been a basketball analyst for ESPN since his retirement.

He realized his dream of playing professional baseball from April to July 2014, pitching for the Sugar Land Skeeters of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.

Early life

McGrady was born in Bartow, Florida, on May 24, 1979, to Melanise Williford. Melanise raised McGrady with the support of her mother, Roberta, in Auburndale, because his father was not a part of their daily lives. McGrady played high school basketball and baseball at Auburndale High School for three years before moving to Mount Zion Christian Academy in Durham, North Carolina, for his senior year. McGrady averaged 23.1 points, 12.2 rebounds, 4 assists, and 4.9 blocks per game during his last year at Auburndale.

McGrady, a little known player coming from Florida, made a name for himself after a good showing at the Adidas ABCD Camp, which helped him recognize his true potential. "Nobody knew who Tracy McGrady was," he said later. Sonny Vaccaro gave me that platform, and I competed against the best players in the country at the time. I left the No. 1 camp, not the No. 1. 175-1, No. 1 in the country, 175 to No. 2 is the nation's top athlete. "Is this one the best one" on record. Mt. t. : Mt. : Mt. : Mt. explains the leadership of his team. The Associated Press named Zion as the country's highest-ranked team, and McGrady was named a McDonald's All-American, USA Today High School Basketball Player of the Year, and North Carolina's Mr. Basketball. He appeared in the 1997 Roundball Classic, scoring 13 points. His senior year averages were 27.5 points, 8.7 rebounds, 7.7 assists, 2.8 steals, and 2 blocks per game. McGrady was considering playing basketball at the University of Kentucky at the University of Kentucky, but he later decided to draft as a future lottery pick.

Personal life

McGrady and his partner, CleRenda Harris, have three children. Laymen Lamar's first son was born in Houston on December 27, 2005, during a home game in which McGrady was not allowed at halftime. Chancellor "Chance" McGrady, Tracy's younger brother, competed for the 2008 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament runner-up Memphis Tigers.

McGrady is also the cousin of Vince Carter, a basketball player. In 1998–2000, they were teammates with the Raptors. Both players were unaware of the relationship until a family reunion in 1997. McGrady and the Raptors had a rivalry before, but it was resolved in a short amount of time.

McGrady signed a long-term deal with Adidas in 2002, committing to a one-year contract that continued throughout his playing career and beyond. Complex recalled Adidas's signature line of shoes for McGrady as "all the buzz in the early '2000s." McGrady shifted his attention away from his business acquisitions, including Dasdak, a Washington, D.C.-based technology firm, and Blue-04, a bottled water company in Florida, as he returned to Florida. He was also an early investor in the Biloxi Shuckers, the Minor League Baseball team. Since 2016, he has been working as an NBA analyst for ESPN.

McGrady and John Prendergast and Omer Ismail of the Enough Project traveled to the Darfurian refugee camps in Chad in 2007. McGrady recruited NBA players to help support an initiative involving Darfurian refugee camps to American middle schools, high schools, and universities. He changed his jersey number to No. 1 before the 2010 season with the Rockets. 3 Points is a film about his summer visit to raise his humanitarian efforts in the area. McGrady was chastised for his remarks on the All-Star Game in New Orleans, just three years after the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. McGrady has raised concerns about the public safety and security of NBA athletes.

McGrady introduced SOLEcial, a smartphone app that could be used to sell autographed shoes, trading cards, and other memorabilia directly to customers in August 2021.

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Tracy McGrady Career

Professional career

In the 1997 NBA draft, McGrady was rated as the ninth overall pick by the Toronto Raptors. He received little playing time in the 1997–98 season, clocking in at 13 minutes per game under head coach Darrell Walker. McGrady's rookie year has been dubbed "hell" in Toronto, feeling sad and sleeping for up to 20 hours a day. Walker resigned early in the season, but McGrady's minutes increased under new manager Butch Carter, who promised to extend McGrady's minutes under the condition that McGrady's work ethic.

The Raptors drafted McGrady's distant cousin Vince Carter before the lockout-shortened 1998–99 season. The two families became inseparable; teammate Dee Brown once said, "They say they're cousins"... The Siamese twins is more like it."

The duo had a reputation for their athleticism by the 1999–2000 season, appearing at the All-Star Weekend Slam Dunk Contest for the first time. McGrady, who is now playing a big part in the Sixth Man of the Year Award, was nominated for the Sixth Man of the Year Award before being promoted to Toronto's starting backcourt in late March. McGrady scored a career-high 28 points in a loss to the Pistons on April 4, one of his last regular season games in Toronto. The Raptors finished the season with a 45-37 record, qualifying for the first time in franchise history, behind McGrady and Carter's play. McGrady's final averages were 15.4 points, 6.3 rebounds, 3.3 assists, and a career-best 1.9 blocks per game. The Raptors were swept by the New York Knicks in the first round of the postseason.

McGrady became a free agent and signed with the Orlando Magic on August 3, 2000, giving the Raptors a future 1st round draft pick (Fran Vázquez was later selected) following Toronto's first-round exit. He has been with the Magic for seven years, and $2.8 million. Grant Hill, the Magic's second-generation free agent, decided to join the Magic partly because he disliked his secondary role behind Vince Carter, both so he could return home to Florida and in part to compete with their other newly acquired free agent. Hill would continue to play in only 47 games total during his time with the team, ultimately pushed McGrady to a more prominent leadership and scoring role than ever.

McGrady defied the hopes of many during the 2000–01 season, establishing himself as one of the best players in the NBA, with Milwaukee Bucks General Manager Ernie Grunfeld naming him "one of the top five players in the league." McGrady's play earned him his first All-Star Game appearance and, behind averages of 26.8 points, 7.5 rebounds, and 4.6 assists per game, he was selected to his first All-NBA Team, which was ranked to the All-NBA Second Team. He was also named league Most Improved Player. The Magic made the playoffs as the East's seventh seed, drawing a matchup with the Bucks on the Bucks on Wednesday, with a 43–39 record. McGrady scored 42 points, ten rebounds,, and 8 assists in Game 3 of the series, which Bill Simmons later referred to as McGrady's "superstar audition tape." Orlando was eventually defeated by Milwaukee in four games.

McGrady averaged 25.6 points, 7.9 rebounds, and 5.3 assists per game during his second All-NBA Team pick, this time to the All-NBA First Team. He played one of his career's most memorable games by throwing the ball off the backboard to himself and completing an alley-oop in traffic during the All-Star Game last year. McGrady later recalled, "There was only one guy back... and he bit on the lob." I'm sure he was throwing it to one of my coworkers, but I just threw it away." In the first round of the playoffs, the Magic were again disqualified, losing in four games to the Charlotte Hornets at the end of the season. McGrady won 99-96 over the Washington Wizards on March 8, 2002, in one of his best games of his career.

McGrady won his first scoring title in 2002–03, finishing a career-best fourth in NBA Most Valuable Player Award voting behind averages of 32.1 points, 6.5 rebounds, and 5.5 assists per game. His season was ranked as one of the best for a perimeter player by ESPN later this year. He scored a team playoff record 43 points to help Orlando take an early lead over the top-seeded Detroit Pistons in Game 1 of the playoffs. The Magic will continue to lead by a convincing 3-1 lead, and McGrady caused news when he mistakenly assumed that Orlando would advance, saying, "It feels good to get to the second round." Despite being in possession of the series, the Magic were disqualified in seven games.

McGrady's 2003-2004 season was a turbulent one for the McGrady; Magic coach Doc Rivers was fired following a 1–10 start to the year, and there had been rumors of tension between McGrady and Orlando General Manager John Weisbrod. Throughout the season, Orlando suffered as a result of a string of injuries, ending the year with the lowest record in the East, despite McGrady winning his second straight scoring title. McGrady had a career-high 62 points in a playoff effort against the Washington Wizards late in the season. His final stats were 28 points, 6 rebounds, and 5.5 assists per game.

McGrady, Juwan Howard, Tyronn Lue, and Reece Gaines were all traded to the Houston Rockets as part of a seven-player contract that brought Steve Francis, Cuttino Mobley, and Kelvin Cato to the Magic on June 29, 2004. McGrady expressed concern about the trade and expressed delight at the prospect of playing alongside Rocket All-Star center Yao Ming. McGrady's contract extension was just weeks after arriving in Houston.

The Rockets were unable to kick off the 2004-2005 season, with a losing record of 16–17 in their first 33 games. McGrady had one of his career's best games of his career on December 9, scoring 13 points in the final 35 seconds against the San Antonio Spurs to win by a comeback victory. Four three-pointers were used in a four-point play, one of which was part of a four-point play and the other was a game-winner in the final two seconds. Houston bounced back from a slow start the year with 51 victories and the third-best record in the West after the All-Star break. McGrady's final averages were 25.7 points, 6.2 rebounds, and 5.7 assists per game. He had another stellar showing in Game 2 of the first round of the postseason, delivering a "thunderous" dunk over 7'6" Dallas Mavericks center Shawn Bradley and a game-winner for a 113–111 victory. McGrady came out cold, missing his first seven shots en route to a 40-point loss in Game 7, where the series will be decided decisively.

McGrady played in only 47 games due to injury in 2005-06, a disappointing one for the Rockets. He missed time due to back spasms, including a moment in January when he had to be carried away in a stretcher due to a severe flare up. McGrady was able to participate in the All-Star Game in Houston this year, exploding for 36 points in less than 27 minutes despite his health issues. He averaged 24.4 points and 6.5 rebounds per game on the season. The Rockets were unable to qualify for the playoffs due to mainly to his frequent absences.

McGrady played seven games in a row, this time due to back spasms, before deciding to see a doctor and receive medical attention as it affected his speed and vitality. McGrady's second scoring choice was temporarily suspended due to his health conditions and Yao Ming's ascension, which was having a breakout season. His final stats were 24.6 points, 5.3 rebounds, and 6.5 assists per game. The Rockets were matched against the Utah Jazz in the playoffs to begin the playoffs. McGrady's reputation had grown by this time, and he responded, "If we don't make it out of the first round, it's on me." Following the Game 7 loss, Houston would eventually lose the series in seven games, and McGrady, who was still mourning the loss, told his postgame press conference after the loss, "I tried, man, I tried."

Despite missing Yao Ming during that time, the Rockets went on a 22-game winning streak, the second longest in NBA history, from 2007 to 2008. McGrady expressed hope about the team's roster, but admitted, "I haven't had this confidence in my teammates before." Houston was the West's fifth seed in the first round this season, earning them a rematch with the Jazz. McGrady was suffering shoulder and knee pains by the time the playoffs arrived, with others requiring him to get pain-killing injections and have fluid drained from both his shoulder and knee in order for him to play. Despite McGrady's best 40-point and 10-rebound efforts in Game 6, the Jazz beat the Rockets this week, this time in six games.

McGrady underwent arthroscopic surgery on both his left shoulder and right knee after Houston's loss to Utah. He played 18 games, including a two-week stretch in January, before realizing that his knee was not fully recovered from his offseason surgery. He underwent microfracture surgery in Chicago on February 24, causing him to miss the remainder of the year. By that time, his averages had decreased to 15.6 points and 4.4 rebounds per game. In a strange twist of fate, the Rockets qualified for the playoffs without McGrady and advanced to the second round, beating the eventual champion Los Angeles Lakers to seven games.

McGrady's campaign was only getting off after an operation to begin in 2009–10. He returned to action on December 15, but only seven minutes were allowed. The Rockets decided to shut him down for six games so they could concentrate on trading him to another team.

McGrady was traded to the New York Knicks on February 18, 2010 as part of a three-team trade involving Houston, New York, and Sacramento. In an overtime loss to the Thunder, two days later, he made his team debut by scoring 26 points. In 26.1 minutes per game, he would finish the season with 9.4 points, 3.9 rebounds, and 3.7 assists.

McGrady joined the Detroit Pistons in 2010-11 and averaged 8 points per game. In a 101-95 victory over the Raptors, McGrady scored a season-high 22 points and 5 assists. In an 88-87 loss to the Heat, McGrady scored 14 points, had 8 rebounds, grabbed 8 rebounds, and blocked 4 shots.

McGrady signed with the Atlanta Hawks in 2011–12, averaging 5.3 points per game.

McGrady signed the Qingdao DoubleStar Eagles of the Chinese Basketball Association in one-year on October 9, 2012. Qingdao ended the season in last place, with McGrady averaging 25 points, 7.2 rebounds, 5.1 assists, and 1.6 steals per game.

McGrady signed with the San Antonio Spurs on April 16, 2013, just days after the conclusion of the CBA season, in order to qualify for their playoff roster. McGrady's career was eventually sent to the 2013 NBA Finals after losing in seven games to the Miami Heat, giving him the opportunity to play his first-round appearances.

McGrady formally announced his release from the NBA on ESPN's First Take on August 26.

National team career

McGrady was selected to the United States national basketball team for the FIBA Americas Championship 2003 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In a 98-69 victory over Venezuela, McGrady led the Americans by scoring 16 points. McGrady was forced to miss the August 26 game due to a back injury. With an 87–71 victory over Puerto Rico on August 30, the United States qualified for the 2004 Olympic Games; McGrady and Puerto Rico's Eddie Casiano were both involved in an altercation that culminated in fans throwing drinks and garbage on the court; The United States advanced to the gold medal game, defeating Argentina to finish a perfect 10–0. McGrady averaged 12.6 points and 2.9 rebounds in a game on 54.4 percent from the field and 42.1 percent three-point shooting.

Professional baseball career

McGrady declared on February 4, 2014 that he was seriously interested in becoming a professional baseball player while working with Roger Clemens to become a pitcher for the Sugar Land Skeeters of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. McGrady made the Skeeters' Opening Day roster on April 23, 2009. He pitched 1+2/3 innings on his debut, losing. He made his first strike out in July as he began the Atlantic League All-Star Game. McGrady announced his retirement from baseball following the game.

Career statistics

NBA statistics per Basketball-Reference. CBA's CBA reports are provided by CBA Data Center.

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