Tracy McGrady

One-on-one basketball is the true, pure essence of the sport

One-on-one is the true essence of basketball. There's one-on-one and five on five, true matchups, but one-on-ones the true pure essence of basketball. I mean, we all grew up playing one-on-one.

Kyrie Irving's skill set is so advanced it would be difficult for prime LeBron James to guard him one-on-one

Kyrie will be tough for LeBron to even guard in his prime. Right. We haven't really seen Kyrie skillset. We've seen snippets, but it's hard to really, really display your ultimate skillset in a five-on-five setting.

Dwight Howard is the most disrespectful omission from the NBA Top 75 list

I don't take away from anybody that was on that list... but Dwight Howard to me is really the most disrespectful one [omission]. His prime years was phenomenal. Like he was the most dominant big in our game in his prime years.

If Grant Hill had stayed healthy, we would have created a dynasty in Orlando

If Grant Hill was healthy... I make it to the NBA finals with the Orlando Magic. We would have created a dynasty for sure.

I was born with natural God-given talent that allowed me to excel at any sport without even practicing

I was born with a natural ability, natural skillset. Like you could drop, God just dropped me on earth and was like 'son, you could play baseball, basketball, football, pick your choice'. I could throw a football 60 yards. I could throw a baseball 88 miles per hour in high school. I ran a four four or four five. And I could play basketball. This was without practicing to anything.

The Warriors likely took Game 4 off against the Mavericks just to secure a lucrative Game 5 home gate

They up three [games]. Game four is in Dallas... they took a night off game four, 'Hey, let's make them travel all the way back out to the Bay Area. Take that flight. We'll blow they ass out.'

The Celtics will beat the Heat and advance to the NBA Finals

Nah, it's over. It's over Friday night. Celtics will be, make an appearance into the NBA finals.