Sonny Vaccaro, who was consulting with adidas at the time andВ helped barter the Tracy McGrady deal, said the player did okay for himself despite only being 18 years old at the time. That initial sneaker deal eventually ended up giving McGrady six signature sneakers, of which several have been retroed in recent years. 'If it wasn't for them, there would be no Tracy McGrady or T-Mac.' 'I think it was right for these guys to get a percentage of my deal,' T-Mac said. According to the doc, there was a provision in McGrady's adidas contract that paid his old coach $150,000 a year, for six years (that's nearly a million dollars). Not only was T-Mac getting paid, but so was his high school coach. To counter, adidas ended up offering McGrady a $1.7 million sneaker contract, which was nearly double of what adidas was paying Kobe Bryant at the time.Д«ut that wasn't all. Tracy McGrady was a star athlete in every sport he played growing up in Auburndale, Florida, and when he joined Carton & Roberts on WFAN Thursday, he revealed that he felt he was actually best at baseball and couldвЂ™ve made the Majors as a pitcher but one basketball experience changed his life forever. Unlike Kobe Bryant, who adidasВ signed to a million dollar deal as soon as he graduated, Nike was very interested in signing Tracy McGrady right out of high school. The story of how he first linked up with the brand is pretty amazing.ДЄccording to ESPN 30 for 30's documentary Sole Man,В T-Mac came to adidas during a time in the '90s when both the Three Stripes and Nike were trying to find the next Michael Jordan-like athlete through the high school basketball ranks. Tracy McGrady is one of few NBA players to have a decent run of signature sneakers with adidas.

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