Reality bent sideways when one of basketball's most dynamic scorers appeared at Madison Square Garden wearing a different shade of blue. The two-time scoring champion and seven-time All-Star belonged in Orlando Magic pinstripes or Houston Rockets red, not the blue and orange of New York. After crafting a legendary resume filled with 62-point eruptions, impossible comeback miracles against San Antonio, and those silky-smooth jumpers that made him a Hall of Fame lock, McGrady somehow materialized in Manhattan for 24 games of basketball's strangest fever dream. The signature stroke remains pure as he knocks down a jumper in his 26-point Garden debut, proving that legendary talent transcends uniform colors. This wasn't T-Mac launching threes in clutch moments for the Rockets or carrying the Magic's championship hopes: this was proof that the NBA's carousel never stops spinning, even for its biggest stars. For collectors, these Knicks cards represent basketball's equivalent of finding buried treasure: documented evidence that even the most unlikely jersey swaps actually happened during the league's endless shuffle of aging superstars chasing one final chapter. · Feb 21, 2010