Tracy McGrady: Kevin Durant is the best one-on-one forward in the NBA

“KD doesn’t need 10 dribbles to get his rhythm to rise up,” said McGrady, who is considered one of the best players ever at playing 1-on-1 in scoring 18,381 points in 15 NBA seasons. “KD needs about three to four dribbles, and he is in his spot. He gets where he wants to go in less dribbles and he is efficient. So I got to go with KD.” -via Arizona Republic / September 8, 2023

With what you have in Devin, Kevin, Bradley and Deandre, what are you looking for in that fifth starter? Frank Vogel: “I think the one that is going to fit the best, really. We’ll have a lot of guys that have an opportunity to be that fifth guy. The versatility of maybe being able to guard multiple positions or maybe it’s an elite shooter. Maybe it’s just another playmaker. I think we have a lot of guys with a lot of different skill sets and we’ll put a lot of different combinations throughout the year, but I think all of those skill sets would fit the four guys you mentioned. We’ll see how it plays out.” -via Arizona Republic / September 7, 2023

Kevin Durant, Devin Booker, Bradley Beal, Deandre Ayton, and Bol Bol spotted leaving a workout at UCLA 🔥 New Suns roster building chemistry 👀 (via joy.of.everything/TT) -via Twitter / September 7, 2023

Brandon “Scoop B” Robinson: Michael Jordan talked no trash to Tracy McGrady during T-Mac’s rookie year with the Toronto Raptors @Tmac_213 on MJ: “We weren’t a very good team at that time so I’m sure he was like, ‘There’s no need to even waste my trash talking on this sorry ass team.’” McGrady did say that MJ saved his best smsck talk for All-Star Weekend: “I don’t recall him talking any trash when he was with the Wizards but I didn’t have any run ins. Now on All-Star Weekend? Of course Mike talked shit because we’re all there together. There’s a lot of locker room sidebar conversations and chattin’ about certain things but I can’t really pinpoint what those conversations were about but, you DO hear the chatter with Mike and him talking shit to guys.” -via Twitter / August 11, 2023

On if he ever bought the ‘smoke’ that James Harden would find his way to the Houston Rockets… McGrady: No. It didn’t make basketball sense and I know James wants to win a championship; coming to Houston is NOT winning a ‘chip. Coming to Houston will not win you a championship! [laughs]. Him getting out of Philly… again, and I’ve said this on record, I really don’t understand it because you are a championship contending team that’s playing alongside the MVP of last year’s season. However, with him wanting to get out of that situation there has to be something that we don’t know about because again, IT DOESN’T MAKE BASKETBALL SENSE. -via Apple Podcasts / August 10, 2023