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Shaopeng Shen: Qingdao and Shanghai have lost their chance to CBA playoffs,Tracy Mcgrady,Gilbert Arenas&D.J. White can return to NBA before NBA playoffs. Twitter

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I always wanted to see you play Tracy McGrady. Kobe Bryant: I played T-Mac. I cooked him. Roasted him. Wasn’t even close. Ask him, he’ll tell you. When I was about 20, we were in Germany doing some promotional stuff for that other sneaker company and we played basketball every day. We were in the gym all the time. We played three games of one-on-one to 11. I won all three games. One game I won 11-2. After the third game he said he had back spasms and couldn’t play anymore. ESPN.com

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Tracy McGrady: LOL Hell no! That's far from the truth. No one in the NBA is playing 1 on 1. Me and KB never went to Germany together either.. Twitter @Real_T_Mac

Los Angeles Lakers, Kobe Bryant, Tracy McGrady 

I always wanted to see you play Tracy McGrady. Kobe Bryant: I played T-Mac. I cooked him. Roasted him. Wasn’t even close. Ask him, he’ll tell you. When I was about 20, we were in Germany doing some promotional stuff for that other sneaker company and we played basketball every day. We were in the gym all the time. We played three games of one-on-one to 11. I won all three games. One game I won 11-2. After the third game he said he had back spasms and couldn’t play anymore. His back bothered him for most of his career. Kobe Bryant: Well, now you know. ESPN.com

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According to a Jilin newspaper, McGrady will sit down for non-mandatory media sessions only under the following conditions: An up front payment of $5,000 for a one-on-one interview and $1,000 for a group interview. Which explains why nobody has gotten an exclusive interview in China with McGrady yet. And it also explains why you haven’t seen a lot of off-court pictures either because if you want one of those, you apparently have to pick up the fee for his hotel suite. NiuBBall.com

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Tracy McGrady: This bad officiating has to change. No way I'm coming back if the officiating continues to be this errant. Weibo

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Tracy McGrady: Fans: I'm not leaving qingdao. It doesn't matter if we lose every game I'm gonna fight until the end. Those are false media reports. If it isn't a quote by me don't believe anything you read in the media here! These guys trying to create a story that's not there! Weibo

Tracy McGrady, China 

And now, thanks to our friends at the Yahoo! Sports Minute, here's McGrady, in a game played Sunday, getting dotted from beyond the arc to put his Qingdao DoubleStar Eagles down 22 points to fellow former NBA All-Star Stephon Marbury and his defending Chinese Basketball Association champion Beijing Ducks, and not taking the beating so well and delivering one of his own: So, maybe not everything is "so far, so good." According to Xinhua's recap of the game, McGrady's day got off to a bad start when left "his formal [jersey] in the hotel carelessly." Despite the Anthony Davis-style uniform malfunction, though, he still got it going offensively, trading scores with the likes of Marbury and former New York Knicks and Atlanta Hawks big man Randolph Morris throughout the first half. Yahoo! Sports

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Big man Chris Daniels, not Solomon Alabi, will be the one replacing Didier Ilunga-Mbenga on Qingdao Eagles, one source told HoopsHype. Chinese website 361 Sport had reported the former Raptor would be the one joining Tracy McGrady's club, but that will not be the case. Daniels, a 6-foot-11 center, had been playing with the Santa Cruz Warrriors of the NBADL, where he was averaging 7.0 ppg and 5.7 rpg. Sulia

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Tracy McGrady was welcomed almost like a conquering hero when he landed to play in China — this is the guy who stared next to Yao Ming. When they could stay healthy. Now he had come to play in the Chinese Basketball Association. Now his Qingdao Eagles are 0-7. At the bottom of the standings. And when Beijing’s Ji Zhe drained a three over him to put Beijing up by 22, then gave McGrady a finger wag, it was too much. McGrady answered with the cheap elbow. And it all got caught on television. Apparently McGrady was not ejected. NBCSports.com

Tracy McGrady, China 

China Basketball Association (CBA) superstar Tracy McGrady, or “T-Mac,” who plays for the Qingdao Eagles has criticized a CBA rules test for players and coaches as “nonsense,” Newspaper.lndaily.com.cn reported Tuesday… McGrady said there is no need for the test as the content is so basic and every CBA player knows how to deal with the questions both on and off the court. …In response to McGrady, [Bai Xilin, head of the league's competition department] said the CBA has some rules that are different than the National Basketball Association and the International Basketball Federation. He said McGrady should set an example for other players to learn the rules well and it would be helpful for him to play better in the CBA. CRI.cn

Tracy McGrady, China 

Alexander Chernykh: Eddy Curry may join Tracy McGrady in Qingdao, replacing underperforming DJ Mbenga, according to Sina report. Twitter

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Tracy McGrady’s first game in China didn’t exactly end well. The score is 92-92 with 18.5 seconds left and the Qingdao Eagles got their new star the ball in isolation out top with a chance to win it. And then McGrady gets casual with his dribble and is stripped with 15 seconds left. Embarrassing. NBCSports.com

Tracy McGrady, China 

In a cold gymnasium (reportedly 5 degrees above zero) in Binzhou, Shandong province, former NBA All-Star Tracy McGrady of the Qingdao Eagles refused to play after being on court for only 98 seconds of an exhibition game on Tuesday. Fans, who paid a lot to watch T-Mac, were disappointed and threw bottles onto the court to complain about McGrady's stance. Referees ended the match prematurely in a chaotic fourth quarter. "The fans' support was warm but the gym was too cold. Letting him play might get him hurt. We were worried," Qingdao General Manager Sheng Xishun said. China Daily

Tracy McGrady, China 

NBA star Tracy McGrady has stopped a game in China - after fans of his new Chinese club began throwing things on court, angry he wasn't playing. Authorities in China halted a basketball match involving former NBA superstar Tracy McGrady after fans began tossing objects onto the court, angry at his limited time in the game, a report said Wednesday. The seven-time NBA All Star created a sensation when he signed with the Chinese Basketball Association's Qingdao Eagles last month, selling out each of the club's three pre- season exhibition matches against a team of American players. SBS

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Tracy McGrady: My dude Jamal Crawford @Jamal Crawford is a cold brother. He's putting that work in. 6th man of the year easy. Twitter @Real_T_Mac

Los Angeles Clippers, Tracy McGrady, Jamal Crawford 

Tracy McGrady: Congrats to President Barack Obama being re-elected for a 2nd term. Twitter @Real_T_Mac

Tracy McGrady, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney 

Two-times NBA scoring champion Tracy McGrady has denied money was a factor in his decision to join the Qingdao Eagles in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). "I played 15 years in the NBA," the CBA's highest-profile import told the China Daily newspaper. "I made a lot of money. No, money has nothing to do with it." Yahoo! Sports

Tracy McGrady, China 

On Thursday, we learned that Chinese basketball fans are very excited to see Tracy McGrady, as 2,000 of them mobbed the seven-time All-Star upon entering the nation after bidding farewell to the U.S. and signing a one-year deal with the Qingdao DoubleStar Eagles of the Chinese Basketball Association. On Friday, we learned that those fans are not alone, and that someone else is very excited to see Tracy McGrady — T-Mac himself, who took the court for his first practice with Qingdao wearing kicks prominently displaying his own mug on the side. Yahoo! Sports

Tracy McGrady, Sneakers, China 

On Friday, we learned that those fans are not alone, and that someone else is very excited to see Tracy McGrady — T-Mac himself, who took the court for his first practice with Qingdao wearing kicks prominently displaying his own mug on the side. Behold: No, seriously -- they have his face on them. (Image via www.facebook.com/aaronknows) As Rich Lopez, publisher of sneaker blog Kix and the City, pointed out Friday morning on Twitter, it looks like the shoe features a picture of T- Mac from his days with the Orlando Magic. On one hand, that's somewhat surprising, considering you'd expect McGrady's Chinese star status to be tied to his pairing with national icon Yao Ming during their years with the Houston Rockets. On the other, as BDL Editor Kelly Dwyer pointed out on Thursday, many Chinese hoops fans — like their American counterparts — likely fell in love with T-Mac during his prime years with the Magic, when he won consecutive NBA scoring titles and was one of the most dominating offensive performers in the world. If there's a T-Mac era worth celebrating by putting his picture on a shoe, it's probably that 2000-2004 stretch in Central Florida. Yahoo! Sports

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