He and coach Rick Adelman then apparently had an "emotional and sometimes loud" meeting about what the plan is for McGrady. The meeting supposedly kicked off with McGrady slamming the door shut.

McGrady is apparently feeling recovered from the microfracture surgery on his left knee and wanted to hear straight from Adelman - not Rockets general manager Daryl Morey or trainer Keith Jones - about his plan for McGrady, who apparently has to wait to play till at least next week when he will get another MRI to see if everything looks healed up.

Well, McGrady has adjusted his expectations. The guard is saying he was misunderstood, according to the Houston Chronicle. He just hopes to be playing by Nov. 18. "It's a target date," McGrady said. "I didn't say I was coming back; I said it was a target date, just like we have a date to have the MRI on the 23rd. Everybody is blowing it out of proportion like I'm guaranteed to come back. I want to play, so that's what we're targeting."

Rockets general manager Daryl Morey continues to stress that there is no timetable for T-Mac's return right now.

So who's telling the truth? Rockets general manager Daryl Morey said Monday that no timetable exists for T-Mac to play. He'll get a run-through at the next Rockets' full practice, which is Nov. 23.

But the 30-year-old McGrady told Adrian Wojnarowski and Marc J. Spears of Yahoo! Sports via email that he was returning Nov. 18. He then wrote on his blog: "I have been practicing, training, and rehabbing hard for my return to the court. I'm in a good place mentally and my body feels ready to get back out there, so now I am just waiting on my doctors to give me the clearance to go ahead to play. I'm going full speed at practice and am not being held out of drills anymore. I'm hoping to get out there as soon as possible, and with everything that my doctors have been telling me, it sounds like that will be sooner rather than later."