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No doubt, the Rockets landed a superstar.(NBA)

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Perhaps last season, as miserable as it happened to be, was the best thing that could have happened to Tracy McGrady. There was a brutal 19-game losing streak. There was a dip in his shooting from 45.7 to 41.7 percent and a slide in his scoring average from 32.1 to 28.0 points. There were 61 losses, a fired coach and a good deal of pouting. Amid all this, there was a major dent in McGrady's status as a superstar and the league's best perimeter player.

After the season, as the possibility that Orlando would trade McGrady turned into a reality, whispers trickled throughout the league that McGrady was a divisive presence with the Magic, that he skipped practices and ...

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