
Way back in the day before I was "Sports Journalist Rob" or "Corporate Rob" or "Actor Rob" and etc I was "Rapper Rob" and I had this called "Who I Be". This is in the early 2000s and the song wasn't really about anything just a lot of bragging and boasting, but out of the millions of lines I have written and rhymed about over the last decade or so (I started rapping when I was 16) these one set of lines even to this day I find myself muttering randomly sometimes:
"I'm Talking To Kobe's Lady / She's Calling Me Baby / T-Macking in the Bed / She Screams Tracy McGrady"
It is a play on words because there were a lot of people at that time who thought Tracy McGrady would be a better player than Kobe Bryant. With the news today that McGrady will need Microfracture surgery on his knee I am starting to think that his career as a dominant NBA player is done.
I don't think he will retire or that he won't be healthy enough to play again but I believe though the T-Mac we knew we will never see again. Very similar to Penny Hardaway or Grant Hill sometimes you just never recover. McGrady even when he was a young player was having back issues that had him walking around the court like a 50 year old man.
It is sad really because skill wise he had it all, but he was just never able to put it together at the right time with the right team. Now you have to wonder if he will ever get that 2nd round virgin label off of him.






