T-Mac VS The Answer

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I am attempting to compare both former superstars current situations with their most current associated teams.

First, T-Mac.

A case could be made that T-Mac quit on his team last year electing to have surgery and leaving his team vulnerable and short handed.

Now, that was last season, this season the guy is coming off major surgery. His team is winning and he wants in. He wants to reap in some of the positives the Rockets are receiving right now. T-Mac wants to prove he still has game left and that the Rockets are not better without him. Bottom line, T-Mac just wants to play again.

Rick Adelman, the Rockets coach is hesitant to play T-Mac, because he doesn't want to mess with what's going well for his team. That's understandable.




Now, The Answer.


AI just wanted to play for the Grizzlies. He wanted to use the Grizzlies as a stepping stone to reclaim his elite status within the league. Lionel Hollins didn't want to hinder the growth of his younger players, and didn't give in to Iverson's desires.

The Grizzlies continued to lose. Iverson didn't get what he wanted so why the heck was he still a Memphis Grizzly? Good question....the answer was to quit and leave the Grizzlies.



Now for the Rockets case and T-Mac, I am siding with Adelman. Don't play T-Mac. Don't mess with your team right now. T-Mac may cause a huge distraction to a current playoff contending Rockets team.

But I can't understand Lionel Hollins and the Grizzlies. I can't side with them knowing that the Grizzlies are awful and their younger players are not that great to begin with. Conley and Mayo are both struggling with or with out Iverson. That's just the nature for young players in this league, early career struggles.

I think T-Mac causing locker room turmoil should be a bigger story than Iverson's case because the Rockets are a winning team.

The Grizzlies are a bottom feeding team and the only reason Iverson's story is a big deal is because the media loves to pick on the little guy, the "street thug gansta".

I am interested to see if T-Mac's situation will receive the media attention it deserves.

I highly doubt it will come close to the Iverson scandal.