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A very nostalgic post about 2005 and Houston sports at large

  • James Harden turned 26 this past week, the age which ushered the end of Tracy McGrady’s place amongst the league’s elite. The year was 2005, McGrady’s second with the team. It was also the year the Houston Astros went to the World Series and were last relevant. The Houston Texans, on the other hand, went 2-14 that year and were again irrelevant, as they have been for the entirety of their existence. And thus, I’ve found a way to open this column by arbitrarily tying all 3 of Houston’s major sports teams together to the year 2005.
  • McGrady’s demise seems a lot more sudden in hindsight than it did at the time, while living through it, partly because we were all in denial.