Sometimes, conversations about the NBA’s all-time greatest players can get too toxic or chaotic. Fortunately, former Houston Rockets star Tracy McGrady set the record straight on haters who continue to say that Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant isn’t top five all-time player.
In a post on his Instagram today, NBA legend Tracy McGrady came to the defense of his old friend and NBA competitor, Kobe Bryant. As he argued why Bryant is a top 5 NBA player ever, he explained why playing with Shaq should not be held against him.
Tracy McGrady recently crafted the perfect NBA player by combining the skills of various basketball legends. Notably, McGrady opted to exclude Michael Jordan from his creation, instead focusing on the attributes of LeBron James and Kobe Bryant, among others.
Shaquille O'Neal became the first player to get a jersey retired by the Orlando Magic earlier this year on February 13. There has been talk of Dwight Howard needing to be the next one to get that honor, but O'Neal disagrees.
Tracy McGrady revealed his top five current players in the league. McGrady's list includes some of the most dominant and impactful players in today's NBA landscape.
Winning an NBA championship is no easy task, but some were even harder to win than others. Hall of Famer Tracy McGrady thinks the Detroit Pistons' triumph in 2004 was the greatest of the lot, as they beat the Los Angeles Lakers, who were led by Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant, in the NBA Finals.
In the high-stakes world of professional basketball, the pursuit of greatness often collides with the unpredictable nature of injuries. For some NBA players,
In 2023, the Denver Nuggets advanced to and won the NBA championship for the first time in their franchise’s history. Since the 1976-77 season when the Nuggets came over to the NBA as a part of the ABA-NBA merger, the Nuggets have made a lot of great decisions as a franchise that led them to this point.
There have been plenty of other offensive explosions in NBA history, and they've taken many different forms — some of them, like violent thunderstorms, barely last a minute or two. But like those storms, they certainly leave their mark.