Tracy McGrady will officially be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame on Sept. 8, but he was in Springfield, Massachusetts, over the weekend for a different Hall of Fame event.Speaking at the Hall of Fame's 60 Days of Summer program, McGrady made some comments about his career and not winning an NBA title.Though the star scorer averaged 19.6 points per game (including a high of 32.1 points during the 2002-03 season) over 938 career games, T-Mac never achieved the NBA's ultimate prize of winning a Finals ring.During his speech at the Hall of Fame, though, he said he's comfortable with how his career turned out, adding that winning a championship requires a lot of luck, unlike putting together a Hall-of-Fame career (via MassLive.com):"Social media can give a lot of people voices these days, and the first thing they say is 'No rings, no rings,'" McGrady said on Friday. "You have to have a great team and some luck to get a ring, right? Unfortunately, I wasn't blessed with that. But I go back at them with this: Anybody can win a championship. Everybody can't get in the Hall of Fame."Of course, many have seen T-Mac's comments as an excuse for not winning a ring. Though he certainly has a Hall-of-Fame resume, many of the league's greatest players have willed themselves to championships.Perhaps J.R. Smith of the Cleveland Cavaliers felt McGrady was calling out players of his caliber with his comments at the Hall of Fame, as he took to Twitter over the weekend to rip McGrady's speech:

Smith wasn't satisfied with just calling McGrady's comments "dumb," though, as he continued by saying he wouldn't have wanted to play on T-Mac's team, since it seems to Smith like he was only chasing stats his entire career:

Of course, as often happens with quotes, sometimes the focus gets shifted onto one particular part of what someone said and no context is given. So, in fairness to T-Mac, he also said during the speech that he wasn't chasing the Hall of Fame during his playing career (via MassLive.com):

"It's such a surreal feeling," McGrady said. "Before coming to the NBA, I didn't know anything about the Hall of Fame. It wasn't like a goal of mine. I just loved to play the game of basketball, and whatever accomplishments I got after that, obviously I'd be thrilled. This right here, this is awesome. The Hall? Really? From my story, where I came from, if I'd known that I'd be enshrined in the Hall of Fame, it really doesn't get better than that."

Still, Smith has made it clear where he stands on the "rings vs. stats" debate. Unfortunately for Smith, though, he likely will never have the chance to make his thoughts on the matter known during a Hall of Fame speech of his own.