mook

as a Blazer fan who's watched Darius Miles, Shawn Kemp, Damon Stoudamire and Scottie Pippen become shells of their former selves while still cashing mammoth checks, I can honestly say you guys are pretty much stuck with McGrady.

I can tell you firsthand that teams just don't make trades for guys making $10+ million with chronic injury problems. it's too much risk for too much salary, and not enough payoff for the risk.

Iverson is still putting up 30 a night. Iverson is still filling arenas. Iverson has played in over 72 games each of the past two seasons, and hasn't missed any this year because of injury. McGrady isn't Iverson.

I've always been a big fan of McGrady (and Yao), so it depresses me to think his career is beginning to Grant Hill itself into oblivion.

should Houston rebuild? sure. they should do whatever they can to put in pieces that fit around Yao. but people need to realize that McGrady is a sunk cost. he's really not a trade asset anymore.