Though he has taken just three shots, making one, in his two games back, Tracy McGrady said that just playing both ends of a back-to-back with no knee pain or physical difficulties was progress in his comeback from microfracture surgery.

“Considering we played (Tuesday), I think the biggest question is can I come out and get up and down the court without pain in my knee,” McGrady said. “I felt fine. I wasn’t favoring it. My knee was holding up fine. I tend not to think about it when I’m out there playing.”

“More than anything, mentally, trying to get over it, knowing that I played a whole half a season (last season) favoring my knee and thinking about it every time I stepped out on the basketball court. It was a mental block.”