A few moments stick out in Tracy McGrady‘s development as a young player on the way to becoming a Hall of Famer.
Growing up in Auburndale, he remembers going to see his favorite player at the time Anfernee Hardaway play the Miami Heat in Games 3 and 4 of the 1997 Playoffs. Those two games might go down as the best individual playoff performance in team history as Anfernee Hardaway dropped 42 and 41 points following Rony Seikaly‘s ankle injury to stave off elimination and force a decisive Game 5 in Miami.