Jamal Crawford praises Tracy McGrady's work ethic: 'It was enlightening to see someone like that work as hard as he did and make the game look so easy'
Jamal Crawford: Bro, this man was up at 6:00 in the morning, on the track. Then he’d have breakfast, then he’d be in the gym working out by 8:00 in the morning. After that, he’d have lunch and hit the weight room. Then, after a short break, he was back at it—getting shots up. He was working out three or four times a day. I’m like, ‘Damn, this is actually harder than I thought it was gonna be.’ So I’m sitting there thinking, ‘Man, I came here for this? I came here to get my ass kicked?’ You know what I’m saying? I thought he was just gonna show me a couple of hang dribbles. But no, it was enlightening to see someone like that work as hard as he did and make the game look so easy. Dudes like y’all, when you go back to the passing—bro, I’ve never seen somebody who’s really smart who couldn’t pass. And I’ve never seen someone who could really pass who wasn’t smart.Source: YouTube More on this storyline Jamal Crawford: I honestly think—personally, to be very honest with you—I think we weren’t mentally tough. And I thought, as a group—not any one person—I thought when adversity hit, we sometimes went like this; we didn’t come together like this. And I think, you know, we had injuries at the wrong time, bro. There’s one stretch in the playoffs—in a five-minute stretch—we lost our two best players. Blake got hurt. It’s important—you can look it up. Five minutes later, CP gets hurt. They’re done for the playoffs. I’m like, ‘What, God?’ It was stuff like that, bro. Like, weird stuff happened—like, weird stuff. And we know CP, he stayed injured, so yeah. God damn it. It was just tough, bro. It was tough. -via YouTube / December 10, 2024 Jamal Crawford: He was so cold, bro. I went to his house, played with him there, and he showed me around his house. Like, he really invested in me. He even tried to trade for me. Yeah, he even got my eye doctor for LASIK surgery. He’s the one that told me to go get it done. I flew to Alabama because that’s where Dr. Andrews was at the time, back when he wasn’t the big Dr. Andrews we all know now. He did my surgery. -via YouTube / December 10, 2024 Jamal Crawford: “I’m saying, no, they were, bro. Honestly, I never once—and I was with them for five years—I never once saw those two have a blow-up. That’s what was weird about it. Like, I never once saw them just go at each other—not in a film session, not in a meeting, not in any of that. It was more so like we didn’t really talk about those things. If there was something, it was never like an ‘air out’ session with those two. It was none of that. So, you know what I’m saying, it was always like, ‘Weird, like damn,’ because it was never like, ‘Oh, that’s why they’re mad at each other. That doesn’t work because of that.’ It was never that. So, that’s why it was weird. -via YouTube / December 10, 2024 The current Cavs coach first broke into the league in 2007 as a player development assistant on Adelman’s bench for the Houston Rockets, featuring an offense led by Tracy McGrady and Yao Ming. Adelman, who coached the Chris Webber Sacramento Kings as well, designed his offense around a distribution hub at the five, a star three-level playmaker at the wing and various skilled players surrounding them. Now, some of Cleveland’s plays mirror what Adelman ran in Houston. “I just always believed in cutting from the time I was with Rick Adelman in Houston,” Atkinson said. “He always preached cutting and how cutting opened up space.” -via New York Times / December 4, 2024 Paolo Banchero: I had a lot of people reach out to me and it was dope. It made me kind of realize how big the moment was not just for me, but for people around the Magic, people around the league. But we had a game two days later. In the NBA, you move on fast. And so, I was happy. It lasted for the night, and then I was onto the next. But I was getting texts for probably the next 48 hours just from guys all over. T-Mac, Tracy McGrady, hit me up, Kevin Durant. Just different guys, friends, family, people I look up to. So, it was it was cool. -via Andscape / November 21, 2024 Former NBA stars Vince Carter and Tracy McGrady are part of a group being considered by the NFL to purchase a non-controlling minority stake in the Buffalo Bills, a person with knowledge of the league finance committee’s agenda told The Associated Press on Monday. The person spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity because the league didn’t release the agenda for the committee meeting scheduled for Tuesday. The committee will also consider Ares Management’s bid to buy 10% of the Miami Dolphins, the person said. -via Associated Press / November 19, 2024
Jamal Crawford: Bro, this man was up at 6:00 in the morning, on the track. Then he’d have breakfast, then he’d be in the gym working out by 8:00 in the morning. After that, he’d have lunch and hit the weight room. Then, after a short break, he was back at it—getting shots up. He was working out three or four times a day. I’m like, ‘Damn, this is actually harder than I thought it was gonna be.’ So I’m sitting there thinking, ‘Man, I came here for this? I came here to get my ass kicked?’ You know what I’m saying? I thought he was just gonna show me a couple of hang dribbles. But no, it was enlightening to see someone like that work as hard as he did and make the game look so easy. Dudes like y’all, when you go back to the passing—bro, I’ve never seen somebody who’s really smart who couldn’t pass. And I’ve never seen someone who could really pass who wasn’t smart.
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Jamal Crawford: I honestly think—personally, to be very honest with you—I think we weren’t mentally tough. And I thought, as a group—not any one person—I thought when adversity hit, we sometimes went like this; we didn’t come together like this. And I think, you know, we had injuries at the wrong time, bro. There’s one stretch in the playoffs—in a five-minute stretch—we lost our two best players. Blake got hurt. It’s important—you can look it up. Five minutes later, CP gets hurt. They’re done for the playoffs. I’m like, ‘What, God?’ It was stuff like that, bro. Like, weird stuff happened—like, weird stuff. And we know CP, he stayed injured, so yeah. God damn it. It was just tough, bro. It was tough. -via YouTube / December 10, 2024
Jamal Crawford: He was so cold, bro. I went to his house, played with him there, and he showed me around his house. Like, he really invested in me. He even tried to trade for me. Yeah, he even got my eye doctor for LASIK surgery. He’s the one that told me to go get it done. I flew to Alabama because that’s where Dr. Andrews was at the time, back when he wasn’t the big Dr. Andrews we all know now. He did my surgery. -via YouTube / December 10, 2024
Jamal Crawford: “I’m saying, no, they were, bro. Honestly, I never once—and I was with them for five years—I never once saw those two have a blow-up. That’s what was weird about it. Like, I never once saw them just go at each other—not in a film session, not in a meeting, not in any of that. It was more so like we didn’t really talk about those things. If there was something, it was never like an ‘air out’ session with those two. It was none of that. So, you know what I’m saying, it was always like, ‘Weird, like damn,’ because it was never like, ‘Oh, that’s why they’re mad at each other. That doesn’t work because of that.’ It was never that. So, that’s why it was weird. -via YouTube / December 10, 2024
The current Cavs coach first broke into the league in 2007 as a player development assistant on Adelman’s bench for the Houston Rockets, featuring an offense led by Tracy McGrady and Yao Ming. Adelman, who coached the Chris Webber Sacramento Kings as well, designed his offense around a distribution hub at the five, a star three-level playmaker at the wing and various skilled players surrounding them. Now, some of Cleveland’s plays mirror what Adelman ran in Houston. “I just always believed in cutting from the time I was with Rick Adelman in Houston,” Atkinson said. “He always preached cutting and how cutting opened up space.” -via New York Times / December 4, 2024
Paolo Banchero: I had a lot of people reach out to me and it was dope. It made me kind of realize how big the moment was not just for me, but for people around the Magic, people around the league. But we had a game two days later. In the NBA, you move on fast. And so, I was happy. It lasted for the night, and then I was onto the next. But I was getting texts for probably the next 48 hours just from guys all over. T-Mac, Tracy McGrady, hit me up, Kevin Durant. Just different guys, friends, family, people I look up to. So, it was it was cool. -via Andscape / November 21, 2024
Former NBA stars Vince Carter and Tracy McGrady are part of a group being considered by the NFL to purchase a non-controlling minority stake in the Buffalo Bills, a person with knowledge of the league finance committee’s agenda told The Associated Press on Monday. The person spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity because the league didn’t release the agenda for the committee meeting scheduled for Tuesday. The committee will also consider Ares Management’s bid to buy 10% of the Miami Dolphins, the person said. -via Associated Press / November 19, 2024
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