Rudy Gay is signing a two-year, 12.1M deal with the Jazz, with a player option, his agents Raymond Brothers and Sam Permut said. Hopefully, the Kings handle a decision on Gay’s future better than they did with (still) head coach George Karl. The Utah Jazz have signed Rudy Gay to a 2-year 12.1 Million deal. Gay’s once-atrocious shot selection seems to have improved every year, he’s relatively durable, and he doesn’t hurt you on the defensive end. He has three-point range and can function as a team’s primary scorer in a situation where he doesn’t have to compete with DeMarcus Cousins and Rajon Rondo for touches.
The UConn product is still a valuable talent though. He has two years and $27.6 million remaining on his contract after this season, including a player option for 2018 (which could make teams slightly less willing to roll the dice on him).
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Gay, 29, holds averages of 17.9 points per game, 6.7 rebounds per game, and 1.7 assists per game on a career-high 47.3 percent shooting from the field for the Kings in 2015-16. San Antonio forward Rudy Gay is declining his player option to become a free agent this summer, league sources tell ESPN. The Kings take on an extra 12 million in 2014-15 salary due. Sounds like Kings forward Rudy Gay pushing for a trade before Thursday's 3 pm EST deadline, per Basketball Insiders. Instead, the Kings on Sunday flipped Salmons, Chuck Hayes, Greivis Vasquez and Patrick Patterson for Rudy Gay and two small contracts. So with the NBA trade deadline imminent, Kings forward Rudy Gay is making the most of this one.Īccording to a report by Sam Amico of FOX Sports on Wednesday, Gay is said to be pushing for a trade out of Sacramento before Thursday’s deadline. That trade right there shows you the difference between the San Antonio Spurs and other organizations.Not many opportunities are readily available to escape the basketball badlands in Sacramento. They were totally being up-front with him, and then they trade him for a guy (DeRozan) where, that organization wasn’t being up-front with him at all.
“On one side, there was that was trying to get out, get to a bigger market. Rudy Gay joined the Spurs because he wanted to escape dysfunction. That doesn’t happen much in the NBA, to be honest with you. both Green and Gay would be locks to opt out, but 2018 is not like most years. Gay, who averaged 17.2 points last season, said last month that he was planning to decline his 2017-18 player option, so he can be a free agent on July 1. Utah announced today ( via Twitter) that Gay will be available for Thursday’s contest vs. They do right by their players, do right by their staff. Rudy Gay Available To Make Jazz Debut November 18th 2021 at 1:02pm CST by Luke Adams Veteran forward Rudy Gay, who signed a three-year contract with the Jazz in the offseason, is set to make his debut with the team. However, the 31-year-old power forward believes DeRozan has something to be happy about now that he is a member of the Spurs. Like DeRozan, Gay also ended up being traded by the Raptors. DeRozan and Gay played together in Toronto in 2013. “The best part about San Antonio, they do right by you. One of the first people who welcomed DeRozan in San Antonio is his former Raptors teammate Rudy Gay.
Via the Hartford Courant‘s UConn Insider podcast: He added that the Kawhi Leonard-DeMar DeRozan trade “shows you the difference between the San Antonio Spurs and other organizations.”
Gay, who was traded by Raptors GM Masi Ujiri in 2013, said the Spurs are always up-front with their players, which “doesn’t happen much in the NBA.” Rudy Gay says the difference between the Spurs and Raptors organizations is like “night and day.”