It turns out that he was seriously injured at the age of 21! It’s a pity that the Rockets No. 1. If he is not injured, what is his limit?

Recently, McGrady participated in the "Timeless Sports" program, in which he talked about his scores, injuries and unknown things in the NBA. Not long after the show, he revealed a golden sentence, "In the previous NBA, I could score 32 points without making much three-pointers. I think it's okay for me to average 37 points per game now." But the golden sentence is only part of it. In the show, he still clarified more about what he said before.

I don't know if it was because the remarks on the show that "I can win the three championships in 20 years old, but I can also win the three championships on behalf of Kobe." This time, McGrady made a special clarification on the show that she had never slandered Kobe. I also wrote an article in previous interviews. [Port]: Insulting Kobe to make the public enemy of the Internet and restore the entire process. Can McGrady + O'Neal win the championship?

He specifically clarified that this is by no means a belittle Kobe: "The Sharks were the most dominant player in the league at that time, averaging 38 points and 16 rebounds in the finals, while I averaged 30 points at the age of 21." McGrady once again emphasized that the last thing he should have said was to "replace" Kobe.

He believed that O'Neal was in the only dominance in the league at that time, but he lamented that he did not have the opportunity to be with the two strongest inside teams in the league at his peak. One was the Sharks who completed the three consecutive championships with the Lakers (2000-2002). When Duncan reached the top four times between 1999-2007, McGrady's peak period (2000-2007) was exactly the same as the two dynasties. Later, he also explained to his former teammate Yao Ming (after all, he said that his partner O'Neal was able to win the championship, which was also indirectly saying that Yao Ming was not good). He never thought that Yao Ming was a bad teammate. On the contrary, after he partnered with Yao Ming, he knew that he would never become the scoring champion again.

"I had a herniated disc at the age of 21." The truth that McGrady calmly told in the podcast was shocking. "In the entire Orlando period, if I had not had epidural anesthesia, I could not finish a season." Every year, painkiller injections were injected before the game, and drugs were supported to the playoffs - this was actually the norm of survival during his peak period. When we are still fascinated by his elegance and dryness, no one knows what kind of severe pain he suffers every time he jumps and falls to the ground.

The more cruel collapse came at the age of 25. In a hotel in Utah, he found that he could not even straighten his knees: "I sat on the sofa and tried to lift my legs... my knees were completely ruined." That year, when the Rockets and the Jazz fought life and death, McGrady's body was already a machine on the verge of falling apart. He believes that fate is the most unfair to him. It is not that he cannot partner with O'Neal or Duncan, but that when the Rockets began to enter the competition industry in 2007, he had already begun to decline completely due to injuries. : "When the team finally becomes competitive, I can't play anymore and can't control all this."

"Many stars only entered the peak ranks after they were 30 years old and began to compete for the championship, but I was tortured by injuries at the age of 30 so that I could no longer show my best competitive level." In addition, he explained his first-round curse, "My four years in the Magic were exactly the same age as when Jordan was eliminated in the early years. Jordan averaged 30 points per game, and I also averaged 30 points per game - why would the greatest player in history lose? It's a blame for not having a good enough team around him?"

Having said so much, what do you think McGrady's explanation? If he is not injured, then where is his limit?