Rockets Team Report
(Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:36:29 PST)

This time, the Rockets thought there could be no uncertainty, no controversy.

They should have known better.

They had gotten together with Tracy McGrady and doctors and decided that he would be out until the team's practice and a subsequent MRI on Monday, Nov. 23. They announced the timetable and said they would not have much else to say until then.

McGrady, however, could not wait.

On the same day, Nov. 9, that GM Daryl Morey had said nothing had changed, McGrady said he would be back Nov. 18. Morey had said McGrady could not be back without a full team practice, and there was no practice scheduled until Nov. 23. But McGrady surprised the team by picking a day almost a week earlier, calling it a "target date" the next day.

When the day came, he was out...

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