It’s a running joke that either Yao Ming or Tracy McGrady are hurt, and the joke will continue its marathon run for at least another season. After missing 47 games between 2008 and 2009, T-Mac is officially calling the season over.

Stephen A. Smith broke the report, and apparently any hope the Rockets had at trading T-Mac to the Nets for VC have ended.

From here, we can hope the Rockets are able to make a push and surge towards the playoffs, and are then able to make it past the first round…. without T-Mac. It’d be the ultimate irony, and would all be sketch his legacy in stone.

Hey, I’m a T-Mac guy, but numbers are numbers, and he just isn’t a winner in this league.