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GIF: Tracy McGrady dishes to Aron Baynes for the smash

Pounding The Rock — Tracy McGrady enters the game late in the 4th quarter much to Spurs fans delight. About a minute or two into his playing time, DeJuan Blair finds Tracy McGrady in the low block who finds Aron Baynes wide open who slams it home.

San Antonio Spurs April 28, 2013

New dog, an old trick for latest Spurs’ addition

Courtside | San Antonio Express-News — By Buck Harvey LOS ANGELES — Tracy McGrady wrinkled up his nose. Glenn Robinson? Puppy Dog? He won a championship with the Spurs? “Wow,” McGrady said. McGrady had an excuse for not remembering. In 2005, when Robinson joined the Spurs, McGrady was repeating a pattern that would come to define him. McGrady and the Rockets [...]

San Antonio Spurs April 25, 2013

Spurs not counting on McGrady

CBSSports.com Fantasy — The San Antonio Express-News reports that it could be a while before newly-signed guard Tracy McGrady makes his Spurs debut. Inactive for the Spurs’ 91-79 victory over the Lakers in Game 1, McGrady is all but certain to spend Game 2 on Wednesday night in street clothes as well. “We’re going real slow,” coach Gregg Popovich said. “We wanted to have another body just as an insurance policy. You don’t know what’s going to happen during a playoff series. We wanted to add someone.” Having arrived in San Antonio two months after his final game in China, McGrady has spent the past eight days working ...

April 25, 2013

Andres Nocioni turned down offer from Spurs recently

Pounding The Rock — @SportandoBasket, a popular international basketball news website, reported that the San Antonio Spurs reached out to Andres Nocioni a little over 15 days ago. Nocioni's agent confirms the Spurs made an offer. This would coincide with the signing of Tracy McGrady who was signed days before the playoffs started, giving room to speculate if McGrady was the Spurs second option. Who would you rather have on your playoff bench: Andres Nocioni or Tracy McGrady?

San Antonio Spurs April 25, 2013

Spurs notebook: No guarantees that McGrady will play

Courtside | San Antonio Express-News — It is not often a contending team adds a former two-time NBA scoring champion less than a week before the start of the playoffs. That is exactly what the Spurs did eight days ago, when they signed 33-year-old swingman Tracy McGrady, recently of the Chinese Basketball Association. It could still be a while before McGrady [...]

San Antonio Spurs April 23, 2013

Duncan: T-Mac can help

Courtside | San Antonio Express-News — Spurs coach Gregg Popovich calls newly signed swingman Tracy McGrady an insurance policy who may or may not suit up to begin the playoffs. McGrady himself says he doesn’t know how much he will be asked to contribute. If you ask team captain Tim Duncan, however, McGrady has something to offer at the Spurs open [...]

San Antonio Spurs April 20, 2013

‘Old’ or ‘Experienced’? The stats can tell the story (sometimes)

Courtside | San Antonio Express-News — Tracy McGrady is certainly not the first player over the age of 32 the Spurs have acquired over the years, although none of the others were signed in the week leading into the playoffs. There is something to be said for veteran leadership on a playoff team. Here’s a look at players 33 or older [...]

San Antonio Spurs April 18, 2013

McGrady riding into playoffs

Courtside | San Antonio Express-News — By Jeff McDonald, Staff Writer Let’s start with the playoff thing. Because that’s where any discussion of Tracy McGrady usually starts, and often ends. The playoff thing has dogged McGrady at practically every stop of his high-scoring career, whether it’s his six previous NBA destinations or, most recently, to the other side of the world [...]

San Antonio Spurs April 17, 2013

From couch potato to insurance policy: T-Mac returns

Courtside | San Antonio Express-News — Tracy McGrady spent the latter portion of Wednesday’s shootaround cramming with assistant coach Mike Budenholzer. Three interns shagged balls, the better to maximize McGrady’s acclimation process as he comes straight off his couch in Houston to fill a role that has yet to be determined with the Spurs. “We don’t have any expectation,” head coach [...]

San Antonio Spurs April 17, 2013

Spurs pluck McGrady from China for playoffs

Courtside | San Antonio Express-News — By Mike Monroe, Staff Writer Looking to shore up a roster that recently lost one player to injury and another to the best interests of team chemistry, the Spurs on Tuesday added former NBA scoring champion Tracy McGrady to their roster. McGrady completed a physical exam and signed a contract that will make him available [...]

San Antonio Spurs April 16, 2013

What to expect from T-Mac

Courtside | San Antonio Express-News — With all the twists and turns during the 2012-13 regular season, it was only fitting that the Spurs gave us one more on Tuesday, signing Tracy McGrady to fill to roster vacated after the unceremonious whacking of Stephen Jackson. It is the seventh NBA stop for the former franchise player, and eighth as a professional [...]

San Antonio Spurs April 16, 2013

McGrady signs with Spurs

CBSSports.com Fantasy — The Spurs have signed free agent guard Tracy McGrady for remainder of the season, the team announced Tuesday. Under league rules, McGrady, who spent the past few months playing in China, will also be eligible for the postseason because he was not on a NBA roster this year.

April 16, 2013

Spurs confirm McGrady signing

Courtside | San Antonio Express-News — The Spurs have signed veteran swingman Tracy McGrady to fill the roster spot vacated by Stephen Jackson, the team confirmed on Tuesday. Terms of the deal were not released. Yahoo! Sports initially reported the move. Yahoo! also reported before the start of the season that McGrady had worked out with the Spurs, who elected to [...]

San Antonio Spurs April 16, 2013

Spurs add Tracy McGrady for postseason

NBA Blog | Houston Chronicle — Tracy McGrady is back in the NBA. The former Rockets star has signed with the San Antonio Spurs for the rest of the season, he said today on twitter. McGrady was most recently playing in China as detailed here in a Chronicle story from February. McGrady, 33, averaged 25 points a game for Qingdao in [...]

Houston Rockets April 16, 2013

Kevin Durant on Wizards: "I want to beat the hometown team"

Washington Post — Kevin Durant didn't grow up rooting for his hometown Washington Wizards/Bullets as a kid. His favorite team was the Toronto Raptors, who featured his favorite player, Vince Carter, and Tracy McGrady. So, Durant doesn't have a particular soft spot when he plays the Wizards and certainly doesn't enjoy the fact that his Oklahoma City Thunder has lost two straight to the lottery-bound Wizards. The Thunder has only lost four games against teams with records below .500 and the first came on Jan. 7, when Bradley Beal made the decisive jumper in a 101-99 victory the last game before John Wall made hi...

Washington Wizards March 27, 2013

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