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Aquille Carr is taking the Brandon Jennings route to the NBA — skipping college to spend a year playing overseas before be is eligible for the 2014 NBA draft. This summer, he’ll get a taste of what awaits him while spending nearly two weeks in China. From June 5th to June 15th, some of the greatest basketball players of yesteryear will meet the brightest stars of tomorrow as they come together for the Legends Tour. Put together by the Self Motivated Athletic Agency, these stars will tour through China during this upcoming summer. The latest names to join the Legends Tour include two-time NBA scoring champion Tracy McGrady, former NBA champion Jason “White Chocolate” Williams and Carr, the diminutive dunking star. SheridanHoops

Tracy McGrady, Jason Williams, Aquille Carr 

Tracy McGrady, who played on the previous NBA team to win 22 straight games, says the streak his 2007-2008 Houston Rockets went on was more impressive than the Miami Heat's 22-game streak. "I'm enjoying watching because of the unknown," McGrady, by text, said of the Heat's run. "But the way we did it was a lot harder. Having Yao [Ming] go out [due to injury] around the 12th game and Dikembe [Mutombo] filling his role was huge for our team. And we didn't have three guys making $100 million." ESPN.com

Houston Rockets, Miami Heat, Tracy McGrady 

Rumors say that T-Mac will come back to China for negotiations with Qingdao for another contract in April, when he is on a Chinese commercial tour. hupu.com

Tracy McGrady, China, Qingdao 

We saw a few players returning from China sign with teams over the last two to three weeks. Do you see Tracy McGrady or Gilbert Arenas catching on with an NBA team this season? I ran your question by an NBA team executive, Trayvon. Here was his text: ''Shocked. Shocked if anyone picked up Arenas or McGrady.'' SI.com

Free Agency, Gilbert Arenas, Tracy McGrady 

Earl K. Sneed: Tracy McGrady is sitting courtside of the #DALvsHOU game in a red sweater. Ahhh memories... Twitter @EarlKSneed

Free Agency, Tracy McGrady 

Alex Kennedy: Tracy McGrady and Gilbert Arenas will return from China in March, once the CBA season is over. Curious to see if NBA teams express interest. Twitter @AlexKennedyNBA

Free Agency, Gilbert Arenas, Tracy McGrady, China 

Tracy McGrady: Joe Johnson @TheJoeJohnson7 is top 3 clutch players in the league! Twitter @Real_T_Mac

Brooklyn Nets, Joe Johnson, Tracy McGrady 

Tracy McGrady: To the best fans in the world, I cannot believe my first season has in the CBA has come to an end. From the first to the last game, my fans have made my journey the best experience any athlete can imagine. I thank all of you for you love! Please read the attached... Weibo

Tracy McGrady, China 

Tracy McGrady: Finally, I know the All-Star Game is coming up Sunday and my super fans voted me in to play. Unfortunately, I won't be able to play in the game, as I have been dealing with the sickness of my grandmother for a few weeks. Weibo

Tracy McGrady, China 

The NBA announced Thursday that rookie forward Terrence Ross (@T_DotFlight31) has been selected to participate in the Sprite Slam Dunk Contest on All-Star Saturday Night presented by State Farm. Ross is the fifth Raptor invited to participate in the event, joining Vince Carter (2000), Tracy McGrady (2000), Jamario Moon (2008) and DeMar DeRozan (2010 and 2011). This year’s contest will take place Saturday, February 16 at the Toyota Center in Houston and will be broadcasted on TSN2 and TNT beginning at 8:30 p.m. (ET). Raptors.com

Toronto Raptors, Vince Carter, Tracy McGrady, DeMar DeRozan, Jamario Moon, Terrence Ross, All Star Game 

Shaopeng Shen: Tracy McGrady had his first CBA Triple-double tonight(21pts,11rebs,10asts),but his team lost to Zhejiang (113-114). Twitter

Tracy McGrady, China 

The CBA All-Star vote has just come to an end and Tracy McGrady became the first foreign player to finish as leading vote-getter. Another astonishing thing is that Tracy got 2,218,388 votes, a new record in CBA history. hupu.com

Tracy McGrady, China 

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

Free Agency, Gilbert Arenas, Tracy McGrady, China, DJ White 

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

Los Angeles Lakers, Kobe Bryant, Tracy McGrady 

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

Los Angeles Lakers, Kobe Bryant, Tracy McGrady 

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

Tracy McGrady, China 

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

Tracy McGrady, China, Referees 

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

Tracy McGrady, China