Tracy McGrady

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tracy McGrady
Occupation	Basketball Player
Date Of Birth	May 24, 1979(1979-05-24)
Age	45
Birthplace	Bartow
Country	United States
Birth City	Florida
Horoscope	Gemini

Tracy McGrady Biography

Tracy McGrady is one of the most popular and richest Basketball Player who was born on May 24, 1979 in Bartow, Florida, United States. 7-time NBA All-Star known as T-MAC who was one of the league’s top scorers while playing for the Orlando Magic and Houston Rockets. He led the NBA in scoring in 2002-03 and 2003-04.

He was on a great Houston Rockets team alongside star Chinese center Yao Ming, but they could never get past the second round of the playoffs.

Tracy Lamar McGrady Jr. (born May 24, 1979) is an American former professional basketball player, best known for his career in the National Basketball Association (NBA). McGrady is a seven-time NBA All-Star, seven-time All-NBA selection, two-time NBA scoring champion, and one-time winner of the NBA Most Improved Player Award. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2017.

McGrady was selected as the ninth overall pick by the Toronto Raptors in the 1997 NBA draft. For most of the 1997–98 season, he received little playing time, averaging only 13 minutes per game under head coach Darrell Walker. McGrady has described his rookie year as “hell”, feeling lonely in Toronto and sleeping for up to 20 hours a day. Late in the season, Walker resigned, and McGrady began playing more under new coach Butch Carter, who agreed to increase McGrady’s minutes on the condition that McGrady would improve his work ethic.

He married Clerenda McGrady in 2006 and he has two daughters, Laycee and Layla, and two sons, Laymen and Layden. His third cousin is Vince Carter, an NBA star that he played with on the Toronto Raptors.

Tracy McGrady Net Worth

Tracy McGrady is one of the richest Basketball Player from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tracy McGrady 's net worth $75 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After being named High School Player of the Year at Mount Zion Christian Academy in Durham, North Carolina, he skipped college and went directly into the NBA Draft where he was picked 9th overall by the Toronto Raptors in 1997.

One of the most remarkable performances of his career came in a game on December 9, 2004, when his Rockets faced the San Antonio Spurs and he scored an unthinkable 13 points – four straight three-pointers and a free throw – in the last 35 seconds of the game to lift the Rockets to an 81-80 victory.

McGrady was born on May 24, 1979, in Bartow, Florida, to Melanise Williford. His father was not a part of his everyday life, so Melanise raised McGrady with the help of her mother, Roberta, in Auburndale. As a youth, McGrady played high school basketball and baseball at Auburndale High School for three years before transferring to Mount Zion Christian Academy in Durham, North Carolina for his senior season. In his junior year at Auburndale, McGrady posted averages of 23.1 points and 12.2 rebounds, 4 assists and 4.9 blocks per game. A relatively unknown player coming out of Florida, he made a name for himself after a strong performance at the Adidas ABCD Camp, an experience that helped McGrady recognize his true talent. He later reflected, “Nobody had a clue who Tracy McGrady was. Sonny Vaccaro gave me that platform, and I played against the best players in the world at that time. I left that camp the No. 1 player in the nation, 175 to No. 1.” Behind his leadership, Mt. Zion emerged as the number two-ranked team in the country, and McGrady was named a McDonald’s All-American, national Player of the Year by USA Today, and North Carolina’s Mr. Basketball by the Associated Press. He also played during the 1997 Roundball Classic, scoring 13 points. His senior year averages were 27.5 points, 8.7 rebounds, 7.7 assists, 2.8 steals and 2 blocks per game. Initially, McGrady considered playing college basketball at the University of Kentucky, but he ultimately decided to enter the NBA draft as he was a projected lottery pick.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Tracy McGrady Dating?

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For the 2001–02 season, McGrady averaged 25.6 points, 7.9 rebounds, and 5.3 assists per game, earning his second All-NBA Team selection, this time to the All-NBA First Team. During that year’s All-Star Game, he completed one of the most memorable highlights of his career, throwing the ball off the backboard to himself and completing an alley-oop in traffic. At season’s end, the Magic were again ousted in the first round of the playoffs, losing in four games to the Charlotte Hornets.

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Tracy Ranked on the list of most popular Basketball Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Tracy McGrady celebrates birthday on May 24 of every year.

In 2002–03, McGrady won his first scoring title and, behind averages of 32.1 points, 6.5 rebounds, and 5.5 assists per game, finished a career-best fourth in NBA Most Valuable Player Award voting. ESPN later ranked his season one of the best ever for a perimeter player. In Game 1 of the playoffs, he scored 43 points to help Orlando take an early series lead against the top-seeded Detroit Pistons. The Magic would go on to take a commanding 3–1 lead, and McGrady made headlines when he prematurely assumed that Orlando were guaranteed to advance to the next round, replying in an interview, “It feels good to get in the second round.” Despite holding the series lead, the Magic were eliminated in seven games.

Why did Tracy McGrady retire?

His final seasons in the NBA were plagued by injuries , and he retired in 2013 following a brief stint with the Qingdao DoubleStar Eagles of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) and the San Antonio Spurs.

Is Tracy McGrady and Vince Carter related?

Vince Carter Reveals How He Found Out He Was Cousins With Tracy McGrady: “I Get A Call From My Grandmother. ‘What’s Up, Cuz?’ , I Said ‘Who The Hell Is This?’

How fast did Tracy McGrady scored 13 points?

On this episode of NBA Flashback we go back to December 9th, 2004 and relive the night Tracy McGrady scored 13 points in 33 seconds to lift the Rockets over the Spurs with his teammate, friend, and fellow Hall of Famer, Dikembe Mutombo.

Does Tracy McGrady have a ring?

T-Mac has no regrets about never winning a ring McGrady, who jumped to the NBA straight out of Mount Zion Christian Academy in 1997, had a Hall of Fame career without a ring. But that doesn’t mean the former star isn’t still being overlooked as a game-changing talent to this day.

Who is the oldest active player in the NBA?

The oldest active player is Miami Heat power forward Udonis Haslem , who is currently 41 years old. The youngest active player in the NBA is San Antonio Spurs guard Joshua Primo, the 12th overall pick in the 2021 NBA draft, who is currently 19 years old and was born on December 24, 2002.