They saw the brilliance of Kobe, who is as famous as McGrady. By contrast, Tracy, with black shoulder pads and white bandages on her knees, looks so insignificant. The layup was blocked by Kobe Bryant, who in turn succeeded in singles. Shooting 1 1 times, 10 times, the breakthrough was blocked again and again. Yes, he played badly. It was really embarrassing.
I know many Kobe fans, whether rational or crazy, who like to ask me this question, "Why do you like McGrady so much?"
Their reasons are so good, of course, taking Kobe as the criterion.
McGrady doesn't have Kobe's strong body and often misses games.
McGrady doesn't have Kobe's perfect skills. McGrady lags behind Kobe in three points and free throws, and his shooting percentage is far from perfect.
McGrady doesn't have Kobe's tough will. Kobe is used to fighting with injuries. Kobe likes to challenge his limits and dominate the game at the most critical moment. But McGrady did it, but it was rarely or rarely mentioned.
Yes! Tracy McGrady is really behind in these aspects. However, how many people know McGrady's helplessness and pain!
T-Mac doesn't have a big man like O 'Neal as a backer, so he has to fight for everything by himself. Because his best partner always sits off the court in a suit and tie, he always works alone in the magic team on the court. The average playing time per game is more than 40 minutes, and I rely too much on my body to play, accumulating many injuries. But he is Lanbai No.1, the main commander of Shuizhai Center, and the core position requires him to drag his unhealthy body to meet every opponent, the visiting team who is not bad. If O 'Neill and McGrady, who also played for Magic at that time, joined hands, I don't think Magic would miss the finals and the championship.
McGrady never had a superior life like Kobe when he was young. He was brought up by his grandmother, and McGrady's grandmother, who has been affectionately called "mom", died last season, leaving McGrady with endless pain. And this kind of pain, McGrady tasted nine times, once every season for the first nine seasons. At a loss, McGrady dared not answer the phone in the middle of the night because he knew it would be unfortunate news. Over the years, McGrady has attended too many funerals and listened to too many elegies.
I once read a report that an article in an American health magazine wrote about McGrady's congenital spinal diseases, saying that his career would be short. The credibility is unknown, but at least it shows that McGrady has been in poor health. It is understandable that McGrady is afraid of physical confrontation for physical reasons. After all, he was tough and proved himself. After all, his body doesn't allow him to spike like that.
T-Mac played two of the worst games of his career, which is exactly the moment to test the fans.
I hope every McGrady fan can have the same mentality as me. When a player like Kobe Bryant plays well and McGrady continues to be depressed, when someone asks him why he likes McGrady, he can say from the heart, "There is really no reason to like McGrady, so I like to support him and wait for his next king to return"!
"Although I was hurt, those facts can't be erased. I am injured, but I am still alive. Although I have many physical injuries, I can still play, and I will continue to play. All the dead people deserve my respect and I deserve to fight for them. "
This is what McGrady said after the relatives around him left one by one over the years.
"As a 29-year-old man, death and injury occupy more than half of the shadow."
The pain of the soul:
Ten seasons and ten deaths. -McGrady
1997165438+1October: His best friend at school, Henry Andrews, was killed in a car accident. 98-99 season: Ryan McGrady, one of McGrady's four best friends who grew up together, is like his own brother's cousin. 1999+02 died of asthma attack while playing basketball.
"The knife fell from his hand, and then he and his girlfriend rushed out of the restaurant like crazy." I wonder if I paid for the meal at that time. "Tracy McGrady later recalled."
99-00 season: Vanessa Jones, one of McGrady's four girlfriends who grew up together, was shot in the head by her boyfriend who broke up with 1999+00 in June.
"If you love a woman and you want to marry her, you should respect her. Why did you kill her? It's ridiculous. " McGrady muttered to himself.
00-0 1 season: childhood playmate Cory bass was shot by robbers. In the same year, McGrady's stepmother Jackie Chan left McGrady and this wonderful world because of cancer.
02-03 season: Eric Anderson's death hurt McGrady the most. They grew up together and shared McGrady's NBA dream.
Now, in his spare time, McGrady often drives back to his hometown to reminisce about the past, where there are many traces of his childhood and his life. Most importantly, when he comes there, he will naturally think of his friends in heaven. "It's right there. Look, there it is. " He pointed to a familiar place and said bitterly, "We played football and baseball together, which was our childhood paradise. There is also a river over there. My grandmother used to go fishing. In the evening, we eat delicious fried fish. This is what we are most looking forward to. "
03-04 season: McGrady's great-grandmother Johnny Ruth Green died and she raised McGrady.
"McGrady once said that without her, I might have died long ago.
My great-grandmother told me,' Don't touch drugs, it will kill you. "
04-05 season: Carol Johnson, McGrady's cousin, grew up together and brought McGrady into the sports world as a guide, and died unexpectedly in March 2005.
05-06 season: It was this year that McGrady's mother-in-law passed away.
"Everyone is comforting McGrady. Everyone in the NBA knows him. No one has made it public about McGrady. In the all-star game, McGrady made 26 shots, and even Kobe was willing to pass the ball. "
06-07 season: McGrady's grandfather Eddie Mccreadie died at his home in Florida. He has a good relationship with his grandfather. In order to fully organize the funeral, he asked for leave from the team and missed the later media meeting day.
Physical pain:
Injuries: hands, feet, hips, knees, ankles, toes, quadriceps femoris, pleurisy, concussion, and the most serious-long-term back injury history.
"Back injury is the most serious and lasting one of all sports injuries, because the limbs are attached to the back muscles. Once damaged, the whole body will be paralyzed. "
"Many people say that McGrady is soft. Please look at how this person was injured.
His back was hurt by magic and rocket without any precautions.
Do you know what will happen if you are overworked and knock twice on the back? "
In the face of the death of relatives and friends, he said this:
It seems that I have a knife in my heart.
No, no, now all the cats I grew up with are gone.
Every time we come here, we attend the funeral. We hate this church, really.
If you look at his face at the moment, it's the grief-stricken look you hope never to see. (Magic Coach Wayne Hall)
I have experienced too many such things, and only on the basketball court can I temporarily forget my troubles.
Why is God so hard on me? Why not give me more happiness and happiness? Why do you give me all the pain and sorrow?
"
I don't know what it's like to lose a relative every year. I'm afraid few people have such an experience.
But I know that this man named McGrady didn't appear on the battlefield until his tears dried up.
I don't know what it's like to play well and be seriously injured for no reason, which affects my career.
But I know this man named McGrady fell down again and again, stood up again and again and ran on the court.
If a person does not flinch in the face of death and has no fear in the face of the devil.
You can't call it strong or brave.
Then I don't know at what height strength and courage should be defined.
If you still despise this person, please go on and worship those really strong people.
If you want to pity this man, please go away, because no one can understand his experience.
The devil is on the left and death is on the right.
He walked all the way on this wooden bridge of fate.
"
"The more people laugh, the more sad they are sometimes."
-To those who have loved, hated, scolded and despised McGrady.
On February 20th, 2006, at 65438, McGrady and Yao Ming participated in the ABC talk show in the United States. Jimmy king Mayer, the host, mentioned that it is incredible that the most popular fan in China is not Yao Ming, but McGrady. There was a burst of laughter at the scene. The host immediately stressed: "This is not a joke, it's not funny at all (it's true), Tracy, can you explain?"
T-Mac showed childlike shyness and said, "I don't know."
In 2008, McGrady missed more than a dozen games because of a knee injury. This year, he failed to make the All-Star. As a talented star who participated in the all-star rookie game at the age of 19 and has never lost the all-star game since 200 1, this is undoubtedly a shame.
654381October 3, McGrady, who was showing off his famous suit, met jimmy king Mayer again in the home game of the Rockets against the Warriors. Jimmy asked, "Hey, Tracy, do you know what China fans think of you now?"
McGrady didn't answer. He turned his eyes to the crow's seat, and thunderous cheers were given to his teammate Yao Ming. In this game, Yao Ming couldn't support himself, and the Rockets were defeated.
McGrady showed a bitter smile, which was quickly caught by an oriental-faced reporter squatting beside him. Tracy McGrady never imagined that on the other side of the ocean, in a country that claims to have 65,438+billion fans, the next day, all major news portals would have an intriguing and eye-catching headline, accompanied by pictures: Rockets are in a losing streak, and Tracy McGrady's off-court expression is relaxed.
McGrady would not have thought that the square writers who used to eulogize the M-M group were racking their brains to design his future, and they were trying their best to incite him to send him to the Lakers.
McGrady didn't take the familiar passage of Toyota Center. He is used to being surrounded by a group of orientals, but he still can't adapt to the aggressive and strange eyes under the cover of polite rhetoric. However, China reporters with tenacious professionalism can always catch him, and he can't escape.
"McGrady, how do you feel about losing an All-Star? ESPN columnist Mark Stern pointed out that "comparing Camby and Paul", you don't deserve to be an All-Star. What's your response? "
"McGrady, how is your knee injury? Although the team doctor said it was only a slight inflammation, is that right? "
"Tracy, Detroit people recently gave you the title of' half-price man', saying that you can only be half a man at most and can only play for half a season. Is that so? "
McGrady was convulsed and speechless.
If the rockets win, that's another matter.
"McGrady, now Yao Ming leads the Rockets to play better and better. Buckley said that the Rockets are now Yao Ming's team. What do you think? "
"T-Mac, what do you think of the exciting winning streak of the absent Rockets?"
"McGrady, evaluate your teammates, or do you have any suggestions for your teammates?"
McGrady's slightly raised lips are a little stiff. Once, when he was extremely sad, he would respond to ridicule and injustice with a mocking smile. Today, his charming smile has become very cautious and unnatural. Because his agent told him that his unintentional smile hurt China fans. Because they think it is a kind of schadenfreude. What a ridiculous association this is! However, McGrady followed the advice of his agent. He didn't laugh, but solemnly said to reporters, "I am proud of the victory of the Rockets, but don't be too happy, because the opponents I defeated these days are not strong enough ..."
Many long-winded hands excitedly record that the writers hired by major sports websites in McGrady never lack exaggerated rhetoric and gorgeous imagination. They just need to find gimmicks to stimulate their eyes.
McGrady's advice to the Rockets doesn't matter. What's important is that every major website in China will have a harsh headline tomorrow: McGrady questioned the gold content of winning streak and actually said that winning was only because the opponent was weak!
When McGrady stepped into his Lexus Land Cruiser with his head down, a childish China boy shouted at him, "McGrady, you are a soft egg!"
McGrady is confused. He doesn't know Chinese, but he understands the disdain on the boy's face. Of course, he can't remember that he signed an autograph for this China student two years ago. At that time, this young man named Yang climbed up his high shoulder enthusiastically and told him in broken English: I liked you when you did magic.
While McGrady is sweating profusely in the gym at home and struggling with waist fat, writers in China are relishing the professional habit that McGrady is always the last to arrive at the training hall.
When McGrady tried to avoid the painful past in the playoffs, China reporters with amazing memories always lost no time in mentioning it. They even looked at his back injury with malicious intent. It would be nice if the back injury could be displayed as bloody as a knife wound-of course, this is my idea and the voice of a bystander-but McGrady can't. He can only bear the double pain of back injury silently and doubt his personality and spiritual quality.
Sometimes, they can't help but mention some new terms that can't be translated in English: soft egg, blacksmith, brittle knee, sleeper, cancer, glass man … Their eyes are like Mexican cactus, full of burrs.
McGrady never wanted to run away. He once strongly replied to the media: "If the Rockets can't make it to the second round of the playoffs, all the responsibilities are on me!"
Although fans who know a little about basketball and watch the whole playoff game will realize that the China Giants' weak defense and poor mistakes are also unshirkable responsibilities, McGrady never thought of putting the blame and failure on his teammates. It was he who came to the press box on behalf of the whole team, fought back tears and faced doubts and ridicule like a frost knife and ice sword. While he was speechless and choked up, the TV director replayed the scene of his frustration when he failed at the game scene over and over again, and inserted his original promise words at the right time.
He didn't want to escape, but he was really tired, and he began to avoid interviews with China reporters. But how can good people think that silence can sometimes become criminal evidence? In China's keen mind, it is the default!
After the second playoff game against Utah in 2007, at the press conference.
"To tell the truth, Yao (to tell the truth, Yao)." Yao was casually talking about his evaluation of the game, and McGrady couldn't help interrupting.
The reporters couldn't help laughing.
"What is the truth?" Dayao monk Zhang Er was at a loss.
"Well, I'll tell you the truth." He smiled mysteriously. "Yao told me in the locker room that he dreamed that Boozer was killed at night, so he was invincible in the paint."
"Really?" Yao Ming is also very happy.
"Of course, Yao, don't you remember?" McGrady's expression was still serious, but he couldn't help laughing.
This is the real relationship between Yao and Mai. They never wanted to crowd out each other and rule the rocket alone.
People seem to forget that the reason why McGrady came to the Rockets is well known: he needs a big man! He has had enough of fighting alone in the wizarding world! In a matchup between Magic and Rockets, the 2.26-meter Oriental Giant left a deep impression on McGrady.
When McGrady was a poor boy in North Carolina, he passed a Lexus car shop. Shy, he couldn't help waving to the beautiful car salesman. He vowed that one day he would buy a Lexus land cruiser and marry this beautiful lady. Now, Lexus has always been his favorite driver, and this car lady also wants to be his wife. If one word is used to describe Yao's original impression of him, it can only be "amazing", just like when he met Clarence. If someone says that McGrady wants to get rid of Yao Ming, he must be crazy! In the last playoff game against Jazz in 2007, McGrady accurately passed the ball to Yao Ming again and again. In the face of fierce aggressive defense, Yao always can't catch the ball ... We didn't see the introverted McGrady sigh, but we could feel the bitterness and despair inside his calm face.
As for Yao Ming's feelings for McGrady, we can play back the video of the rocket game again and again. Whenever McGrady throws a key ball, the first one to hug him is the big man; When McGrady missed the key ball, the big man patted him first to comfort him.
I don't know if McGrady understands what he means to China fans when he wears a burning rocket jersey. The home and away white and red jerseys are simply China national team jerseys without rockets on their chests. Hundreds of millions of China fans have long regarded the Rockets as their home team, but will McGrady, a street boy who grew up in the American "self" culture, understand the expectations of China fans? I believe, yes, McGrady cherishes this love across the Pacific Ocean. This can't help but remind people of a sentence that talk show host Jimmy asked at the beginning: "Which one of you is from China?" Yao Ming humorously and quietly pointed to his teammates around him. McGrady raised his eyebrows proudly and didn't answer.
In 2007, the Sina blog found McGrady, who happily left messages and wishes to China fans. Along with Sina reporter, there is also a girl from Hangzhou, Zhejiang, who is 14 years old. She won a lucky prize in a mobile phone NBA card lottery and realized her dream of watching the ball in the NBA.
When she finally got McGrady's autograph, tears glistened on her long eyelashes. Everyone thought that she was crying with joy, but I didn't expect her to cry out loud She told McGrady how dark she spent this time. Overnight, people who once madly loved McGrady became the craziest Mai Hei. In the forum post, they used the meanest words to call her soft honey, barbed wire, calling McGrady soft, blacksmith, liar, half price ... The translator blushed when reporting these terms to McGrady.
Facing the China fans crying at themselves, McGrady, who was calm and calm on the court, couldn't help being at a loss. He just hugged the little girl tightly in his broad arms and kept saying, "Oh, no, no, no, don't be nervous, it's nothing." It seems that all this is his fault. In the DV that Sina reporter brought back to China, I actually saw McGrady's eyes overflowing with crystals. I only saw him cry twice, and the last time was at the press conference after losing to Utah in the playoffs.
Yes, in Houston, he couldn't understand the public opinion struggle in a distant country that was no less than a coup. Even after watching football for eight years, it's hard for me to understand the psychology of some China people. Not only those naive children, but also some big-name commentators of CCTV are taking pains to make suggestions for this "movement". But McGrady decided that it must be her own fault to make an eighth-grade girl so sad.
Only a simple and lovely little girl will stand with her idol in the most difficult moment, but she is not a level opponent with Mai Hei at all. They were besieged and bullied by bosses who claimed to know the ball with some boring data. They will be called "ball blindness", "anthomaniac" and "idiots who don't watch the ball", but people who like to list data will never understand the ball.
After that, China reporters who stayed around the clock in Toyota Center were surprised to find that McGrady came to the training hall earlier than ever before. He is so silent and calm that every step seems to give him a fateful responsibility. Even Alston, a boy from new york, couldn't arouse his naughty smile by joking with him. When he lifted his eyes into the air, revealing the so-called "dead fish eyes" in China, he seemed to see a lovely smiling face paying attention to himself. He was full of strength, even the dull back injury disappeared.
On February 29th, Yao Ming suffered a fracture and announced that he would be reimbursed this season. Sports commentators even quietly crossed the Rockets off the playoff list. Bill Ingram, a famous basketball commentator nicknamed "Rocket Man", didn't even dare to go out of the house. He was afraid of being caught by Buckley. "Hey, Rocket Man, how are the Rockets now?" There will be a burst of laughter in the studio. Ingram, who thought the Rockets were a strong contender for the championship at the beginning of the season, was ridiculed by the whole league.
Just when people thought the rocket exploded, McGrady took over all the remaining games.
On March 7th, American Airlines Center, the Rockets 1 player made a long-range three-point jumper and roared on the sidelines, as if to shout "Who can beat me?"
The director lost no time in inserting Buckley's contempt and slander of McGrady before the game, and Buckley was ashamed. Last time he kissed the donkey's button because of Yao Ming, now it's the donkey's turn to kiss his button.
Just as the rocket Buddha stopped buddha magic from killing the butcher, a strange argument came out: "The rocket without Yao is better."
Let's see how this argument is brewed. This technology is patented by some people in China.
"McGrady, please tell me what you think of the current rockets."
"After losing the inside man, we had to strengthen the inside defense. Today, we used strict defense to contain the opponent's attack ... "
The latter is no longer important. Yes, for writers in China, they have keenly captured a self-righteous argument: "We are better defensively without Yao-McGrady."
Faced with such a despicable word game, even an ordinary fan who is neither enthusiastic nor experienced can't help but get angry. I want to greet these bastards with the worst words!
Fortunately, McGrady won't see this, and kind McGrady doesn't have to face ugly distortions. He still calls Yao Ming every day to say hello to his injury. Sometimes, he will play a little joke: "Yao, I miss you." How about going to see Brokeback Mountain sometime? " -Yao Mai once talked about watching Brokeback Mountain together on ABC talk show.
Sometimes, he will be full of poetry. McGrady once sang a hip-hop song, which was amazing enough. I didn't expect him to write a poem:
My city wall
We will help you recover.
One day,
A stronger you.
Will smile proudly and join us.
Re-enter the battlefield
Seeing this, I can't help crying. In the United States, McGrady has gradually faded out of the top ten most popular stars. In Africa, the top ten rankings may change slightly, but McGrady has gradually lost the brilliance of a superstar. In Europe, people like King Norodom, Parker, Gasol and, of course, Kobe. Only in China, McGrady is still a superstar on par with Kobe. What kind of fate is this? The fate of 1 person and 1 million people. Tracy McGrady is happy, and so are China fans, because they will witness McGrady leading the Rockets to rise from the bottom and constantly refresh the miracle!