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NBA Courtside: Tracy McGrady says Anthony Edwards is right there, if not better than SGA 👀 “I think Ant Man is right there with Shai. If not, better. He’s a on the ball lockdown defender. I think his competitive drive and spirit is different than everybody else’s. I think he has less talent on his roster than Shai”
Tracy McGrady says Anthony Edwards is right there, if not better than SGA 👀
— NBA Courtside (@NBA__Courtside) January 29, 2026
“I think Ant Man is right there with Shai. If not, better. He’s a on the ball lockdown defender. I think his competitive drive and spirit is different than everybody else’s. I think he has less talent… pic.twitter.com/4Ibr0E61PL
On Time began when Sessions’ 11-year NBA career came to an end and, during the COVID-19 pandemic, he began to reflect on his impact on the next generation of professional basketball players. Eventually, he went into his basement and began drawing the blueprints of an agency on notebooks and loose paper with a core concept: to create a player-driven firm run by someone who had actually lived the life. In 2022, after a two-year-stint as the Pelicans Director of Basketball Operations, Sessions joined a short list of former NBAers who went on to become NBPA certified and officially became an agent. The only other former NBAers to become agents are LIFT Sports Management’s Mike Miller and Seven1 Sports & Entertainment Group’s Tracy McGrady and Jermaine O’Neal. Of the quartet, only Miller and Sessions are NBPA certified.
NBA Communications: The 2026 Castrol Rising Stars ⬇️ Tune in to @peacock tomorrow at 7 PM ET to watch honorary coaches Carmelo Anthony, Tracy McGrady and Vince Carter draft their teams from the pool of 21 NBA sophomores and rookies. Austin Rivers will serve as the honorary coach of the @nbagleague team.
The 2026 Castrol Rising Stars ⬇️
— NBA Communications (@NBAPR) January 26, 2026
Tune in to @peacock tomorrow at 7 PM ET to watch honorary coaches Carmelo Anthony, Tracy McGrady and Vince Carter draft their teams from the pool of 21 NBA sophomores and rookies.
Austin Rivers will serve as the honorary coach of the @nbagleague… pic.twitter.com/WW4quEKMLX
Vince Carter and Tracy McGrady are launching a weekly podcast together. The NBA Hall of Famers and real-life cousins will premiere Cousins on Jan. 28 through AMP Sports’ podcast network. The show will cover current NBA games, stories from their playing careers, and feature guests from sports and culture. Episodes drop weekly on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. “Tracy and I have seen this game from every angle, as players, as family, and as fans of the current era,” Carter said in a release. “With Cousins, we get to give fans the real stories behind the highlights they’ve watched a million times and the defining moments that shaped our careers, while also breaking down today’s game.”
Tracy McGrady: "There's some friction. You can see it in the huddle. You can see it. There is some friction in this locker room that needs to be ironed out. I don't know who — coach, player — but something has to be done, because this can't continue."
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Sam Smith: The Bulls made offers: Kevin Garnett, Tim Duncan, Eddie Jones, Grant Hill, Tracy McGrady, Vince Carter, literally every single one. And they ran away, fast. They just ran away from playing after Michael Jordan. (…) While all these other great players ran away from the Jordan shadow, Kobe Bryant ran to it. He was like the firefighter running to the fire. He was the policeman who ran toward the 9/11 terrorist attack. Everybody else was running away for safety, and he was running toward it.
When asked about the player he looked up to most, Buzelis names a player of a similar frame — Tracy McGrady. McGrady was one of the best scorers in the league at 6-foot-8, leading the NBA in scoring twice and going to the All-Star Game on seven occasions. "I was a guy who watched a lot of players," says Buzelis of McGrady. "I like Tracy McGrady. I never was attached to a certain team. I think the younger generation now are fans of our fans of certain players, not teams specifically. I was a guy who watched everyone, and I would steal stuff from everyone. I would try to put everything into the box, I would shake it up and see what I can create. I wasn't really attached to any certain player."
Tracy McGrady on Victor Wembanyama: “It doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense what he does on the court, man. Oh, we in for a treat for the next 10 to hopefully 15 years of seeing something we have never witnessed on the basketball court. I cannot believe what I'm seeing from this guy. I'm talking about like he's doing everything a guy like myself or Kobe or LeBron or Shaq, like he's mixing everybody's game into his own. Like beasting boys now with that shoulder and sitting on the rim like Shaq. He's coming down like Kevin Durant pulling up for that three. He's getting in his mid-range. I've never seen anyone have this type of impact on the offensive end and the defensive end. Yo, we're in for a treat. Sit back and watch greatness.
Do you feel like you guys cared more about the Dunk Contest? Nate Robinson: I mean, they just make it where it's not as cool now. I don't know why, I don't know where it went wrong. But back in the day, doing the Dunk Contest, it stamped who you were and what you were trying to bring to the table. Like, come on, man, you had guys like Michael Jordan doing the Dunk Contest when he was young. Like LeBron [James], he should have done it. Guys like Ja Morant, Zion [Williamson], why are you guys not doing what you're meant to do? You know what I'm saying? It doesn't make sense. Like, come on, Ja. You supposed to do that rookie year. Zion, you supposed to do that rookie year. Come on, bro. The best of the best. Blake Griffin, myself. I mean, Tracy McGrady, Vince Carter, Michael Jordan, Jason Richardson, Desmond Mason, Steve Francis, Baron Davis, Dominique Wilkins, they all did it. They were dunkers, and they did the Dunk Contest. So many guys blessed the Dunk Contest and still became the player that they are today. It didn't hinder them. Even if they didn't win, they still did it.
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Tracy McGrady: When I look at who I was as a player at this time and I'm looking at Shaq, the most dominant basketball player, and I'm looking I'm seeing myself playing with a cat like Shaq based off of the conversation around ring culture. Hell yeah, I would have won a ring with the Big Fella, right? And the reason I say that because when you go back to early 2000s and you look on that All-NBA list, who's right there with Kobe? I'm on that first team. (…) But when I look at when I look at the player who I was at this specifically term, I'm not saying I'm Kobe. I don't have to be Kobe to play with Shaq and win a championship. D-Wade proved that, didn't he? D-Wade proved that. We're talking about a very small time in my career when I was considered top five player in the NBA. That's all we talking about. And looking at what based off of what Shaq and who he was at that moment in time. Throw me in there. That's no disrespect to Bean. Not at all. The man is one of the greatest top five players ever. Ever.
Tracy McGrady: So, I'm looking at Shaq and you got to think San Antonio and the Lakers won all the f*cking championships at that time. Like, nobody else was winning. So, when I when I said it, and here's what I do want to say. Ain't nobody replacing Kobe Bryant, right? Nobody's replacing Kobe. And people forget that I'm one of the biggest advocates out here defending when Kobe is disrespected. And if anybody took disrespect to what I said, it's on you, right? Cuz I didn't mean it wasn't no disrespect to my brother Bean. Top five wherever y'all have him. For me, he's one of the greatest and I put him in that top five all time.
The NBA returns to NBC and Peacock next month. And during the NFL's first Sunday Night Football game of the season, NBC unveiled a 45-second reminder. During the airing of the Buffalo-Baltimore NFL matchup, NBC released a new promo — one featuring the lineup of some of its announcers and analysts, done in the same way that NBA teams announce their starters pregame.
Featured in the spot: Grant Hill (who rips away his warm-up suit to reveal a dress suit and tie), Vince Carter (who puts on a headset), Reggie Miller (who autographs a dress shoe, tosses it to a fan in the stands and fakes a choking gesture before fixing his tie), Tracy McGrady, Carmelo Anthony and Jamal Crawford.