“T-Mac, I’m telling you dog, listen — T-Mac was another level,” Pierce said on Paul George’s podcast. As terrific as McGrady was, he couldn’t do it alone. In Orlando, the best players he played with were an oft-injured Grant Hill and a young Mike Miller. In Houston, he had the pleasure of playing with Chinese phenom Yao Ming. However, the 7’6″ behemoth also dealt with a litany of injuries and was already out of the NBA after just eight seasons. “He needed that one other superstar. If you had to put T-Mac with KG, if you had to put T-Mac with Shaq, you know, yeah,” Paul stressed. “People be like, ‘Oh he played with Yao.’ Yao was kind of hurt. He was in and out. And like, you put T-Mac with LeBron, man come on.”