Tracy "T-Mac" McGrady broke my heart.
Okay, so I didn't really know much about him until he came to prominence playing second fiddle to Vince Carter with the Toronto Raptors.
All the pundits told him to stay with the Raptors because he was a "Scottie Pippen" type player. He refused to be tied down by other people's expectations, so he bolted to the Orlando Magic and blossomed into a star.
I've always liked T-Mac because underneath all those flashes of brilliance there has always been the underlying fear that when it came down to it, brilliance would be outshone by steadiness.
And so T-Mac never got past the first round, despite practically carrying his teams on his shoulders.
And the more he failed, the more my fondness for him grew.
So there he is, again, first-round loser, just having undergone surgery, the years weighing on his increasingly frail frame.
So sad...
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