Rudy Gay on his visn problems: ‘It was terrible. I uld hardly get my license’

Contents:

• RUDY GAY SAYS HIS VISN WAS 'TERRIBLE' SO HE HAD EYE SURGERY
• RUDY GAY ON HIS VISN PROBLEMS: ‘IT WAS TERRIBLE. I ULD HARDLY GET MY LICENSE’
• RUDY GAY HAD EYE SURGERY THIS OFFSEASON TO RRECT VISN PROBLEMS
• RUDY GAY DISCS EYE SURGERY, VISN PROBLEMS
• RUDY GAY SAYS OFFSEASON SURGERY ALLOWS HIM TO HAVE A H START WH THE JAZZ
• RAPTORS' RUDY GAY HAS EYE PROCRE
• RUDY GAY ISN’T EXPECTED BACK SOON, BUT HE TELLS UTAH JAZZ FANS NOT TO BE WORRIED
• RUDY GAY
• RUDYGAY
• RUDY GAY UNRWENT EYE SURGERY
• RUDY GAY WILL MISS PREASON AS HE REVERS OM OFFSEASON HEEL SURGERY
• REPORT: RAPTORS' GAY HAD SURGERY TO RRECT VISN
• RUDY GAY MAK A BIG FIRST IMPRSN ON THE UTAH JAZZ: ‘HE’S A HELL OF A PLAYER 26 SEASONS ’
• HAWKS' RUDY GAY: TRAD TO ATLANTA

RUDY GAY SAYS HIS VISN WAS 'TERRIBLE' SO HE HAD EYE SURGERY

Rudy Gay said his visn was so bad he uld barely get his driver's license. Which might've been the problem last season for Rudy Gay, who did not shoot very well Memphis and Toronto. Via SLAM, Gay said he's had offseason eye surgery to help rrect his visn, somethg he lled "terrible.

“I did have visn problems, ” Gay nfs, stg up on the traer’s table after Gray fish stretchg out his mcl. Gay fally had the operatn to clear up his sight early this summer. As Gay says, maybe was his ey, maybe not.

RUDY GAY ON HIS VISN PROBLEMS: ‘IT WAS TERRIBLE. I ULD HARDLY GET MY LICENSE’

Gay notorly prefers to take long 2-poters, which is not a very good shot, and h only 27 percent om 16-23 feet last season. Gay is a qualy NBA srer and has proven the last eight seasons.

Gay has required ntact lens for a few years, but hated wearg them.

Eher way, Gay has his ey fixed now and uld make a difference for him this season. The three-team, late January tra that sent Rudy Gay to the Toronto Raptors was, some rpects, a referendum on how you view and value the talent and worth of an NBA player, generatg boatloads of rpons om different perspectiv.

RUDY GAY HAD EYE SURGERY THIS OFFSEASON TO RRECT VISN PROBLEMS

Memphis seemed to h s stri after movg Gay, risg om the bottom-third of the league pots sred per posssn on the day of the tra up to the middle of the pack afterward.

Posssns once belongg to Gay were largely redistributed to more effective players like Marc Gasol, Mike Conley and Zach Randolph, and the Grizzli' vise-grip fense remaed stalwart enough to propel them to the Wtern Conference fals. To his cred, Gay picked up his dividual productn after the tra, htg some game-wners and helpg the Raptors close the season wh a 17-16 mark his 33 gam.

RUDY GAY DISCS EYE SURGERY, VISN PROBLEMS

A weird yet entirely plsible explanatn for those subpar shootg numbers me up after Toronto's season end, when Bce Arthur of the Natnal Post reported that Gay "has required ntact lens for years, but has refed to wear them, and uld not get fortable wh goggl this season. " This seemed like kd of a big al, nsirg the accurate throwg of a ball through a metal rg reprents a pretty big part of Gay's job scriptn; four days after Arthur's report, the Raptors announced that Gay had unrgone a procre "to rrect visn his left eye.

RUDY GAY SAYS OFFSEASON SURGERY ALLOWS HIM TO HAVE A H START WH THE JAZZ

"Durg a workout at his alma mater, Archbishop Spaldg High School Severn, Md., Gay spoke wh SLAM's Adam Figman about jt how bad the issu were, among other thgs:“I did have visn problems, ” Gay nfs, stg up on the traer’s table after Gray fish stretchg out his mcl. ”Gay fally had the operatn to clear up his sight early this summer.

”I n kd of unrstand Gay's preemptive tratn. When you put as many hours of work on velopg your game and hong your craft as an NBA player do, you'd like the cred for any improvement to go toward all that hard work and ditn rather than to a LASIK technician, or said, any gripg about not gettg appropriate praise seems a b weird, nsirg the primary reason for the praise would be improved shootg accuracy that Gay very well may have been able to improve himself years ago had he gotten over beg squeamish about stickg his fger his eye. Also, this praise remas purely theoretil, bee requir Gay to start makg a higher percentage of his jump shots; after seven years of that not happeng super equently, we're gog to need to see that — wh our glass on, ntacts , whatever — before we believe do work, though — if Gay prov nsistently able to n jumpers off the bounce, when opponents go unr screens agast him the pick-and-roll, when the ball swgs his way Toronto's half-urt offense, etc.

RAPTORS' RUDY GAY HAS EYE PROCRE

Improved shotmakg would also figure to bolster a five-man un (Gay and DeMar DeRozan on the wgs, Kyle Lowry at the pot, and Amir Johnson and Jonas Valanciunas up ont) that sred like a top-10 offense, fend at an ele level and outsred opponents by nearly 13 pots per 100 posssns 343 mut after Gay's arrival Canada, acrdg to 's stat tool. "If he n knock [the 3-pot shot] down nsistently, everythg is gonna open up more, " Gay's traer, Dt Gray, told Figman. "Dependg on how effective Gay is to start the season, I wonr if 'd also open up creased tert employg visn trag as part of teams' player velopment and strength-and-ndng programs.

MLB's Washgton Natnals have emphasized over the past few years wh posive rults, but we haven't heard a whole lot about siarly styled approach the 's a long way off, though; for starters, 'd be neat if Gay jt ma some more shots. What mak Rudy Gay divisive is simply he is not a good puts up pots — reer average of 18 a game and 19.

Bottom le to me is wh Gay they don’t get to the nference Fals, they were better whout maybe part of the reason Gay had trouble wh his shot is he uldn’t see. Hard work never ’s shot creatn is a better f Toronto than Memphis (where more efficient optns existed, and Gay didn’t help bee fenrs wouldn’t have rpected his shot).

RUDY GAY ISN’T EXPECTED BACK SOON, BUT HE TELLS UTAH JAZZ FANS NOT TO BE WORRIED

At least Gay will see more clearly. Rudy Gay unrwent eye surgery back April.

Gay spoke to Adam Figman of Slam about the surgery. It wasn't particularly fun for Gay. "I did have visn problems, " Gay nfs, stg up on the traer's table after Gray fish stretchg out his mcl.

RUDY GAY

Consirg Gay's shootg numbers have tumbled -- he shot 39. However, Gay don't want people to thk that way.

Utah Jazz forward Rudy Gay (8) s as he talks durg Utah Jazz media media day at Vivt Arena Salt Lake Cy on Monday, Sept. Once Utah Jazz forward Rudy Gay is cleared to play aga, he expects he’ll be feelg better than June, Gay had surgery on his right heel and is still reverg om that procre.

The surgery wasn’t prompted by any sort of jury, stead was meant to clean up thgs that have been plagug Gay for a while now. “I never got hurt, ” Gay said after Jazz practice on Friday. Gay started havg trouble wh the right heel back 2017 when he missed nearly seven weeks when pa ed by retrolneal bursis siled him.

RUDYGAY

That persistent pa, pl a bone spur the right heel meant that Gay has been playg wh at least some level of pa for the past five havg the problem areas cleaned up his heel, Gay feels like ’ll be a chance to have a h start Utah, a place where he has felt immediately weled by the team and achg staff, a place where he feels like he’s able to be more himself than he has through the latter part of his reer.

Bee Gay feels like the f wh the Jazz is such a good marriage, ’s validated his cisn to have the offseason procre.

RUDY GAY UNRWENT EYE SURGERY

“This is a good team whout me, ” Gay said.

“It’s surgery at the end of the day, ” Gay said wh a lgh.

RUDY GAY WILL MISS PREASON AS HE REVERS OM OFFSEASON HEEL SURGERY

Gay has been able to n and do dividual work on the urt through trag mp and the preason but hasn’t been cleared for full ntact he’s not worried about the Jazz beg able to w gam whout him, Gay did make a pot to say that he’s the same player who me back om a ptured left achill 2017 pretty short orr, so he’s not lookg to drag out the revery procs any longer than needs to Jazz have said that while Gay will not play durg the preason and isn’t expected to be ready for the season opener at home agast the Oklahoma Cy Thunr on Oct. 20, he is expected to make a return to play the early part of the 2021-22 he’s pletely revered and able to play, Gay should be able to do so whout the disfort that’s been naggg him for the last several seasons.

REPORT: RAPTORS' GAY HAD SURGERY TO RRECT VISN

NBAToronto Raptors swgman Rudy Gay unrwent a procre Friday Los Angel to rrect visn his left eye, the club announced on s Twter feed. 5 pots 33 gamRaptors' swgman Rudy Gay unrwent a procre Friday to rrect visn his left eye.

Garrabrant/NBAE/Getty Imag)Rudy Gay should have a clearer visn of the basket next Toronto Raptors swgman unrwent a procre Friday Los Angel to rrect visn his left eye, the club announced on s Twter, acquired om Memphis the mid-season tra that sent Ed Davis to the Grizzli and Jose Calron to Detro, averaged a team-high 19. (Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) Rudy Gay is terviewed durg Utah Jazz media day at Vivt Arena, Monday, Sept. 27, 2021 Salt Lake ’s both a glass-half-empty way and a glass-half-full way to look at Rudy Gay’s Friday, the Utah Jazz forward mented publicly for the first time on his offseason surgery to repair his right heel, the same surgery that has kept him out of the Jazz’s preason actn so far and will ntue to keep him out through the early part of the regular said that the heel had ed him pa that he’d been “playg wh for a while” — five years, fact.

RUDY GAY MAK A BIG FIRST IMPRSN ON THE UTAH JAZZ: ‘HE’S A HELL OF A PLAYER 26 SEASONS ’

And fally, he cid last season that the pa had gotten to be too much, and he’d unrgo the surgery to rrect both Gay and the team are beg extremely ut about his return, too. So I unrstand people expect me to go out there and play, ” Gay said.

”So there’s the glass-half-empty news: Gay don’t know when he’ll return, nor do there seem to be particular urgency the eback. The prry is the playoffs, and the team will sacrifice regular-season mut the the glass-half-full aspect is this: Gay was a pretty solid NBA ntributor over the last five seasons, playg through pa.

And will some rt the regular season mean Gay plays at a higher level April, May, and June? Optimists out there uld also take some joy Gay’s practice workouts. Even though he hasn’t been any gam so far, Gay has been part of the team’s shootg ntts, fdg himself groups wh all liber of marksmen, om Rudy Gobert to Joe Friday, his practice also nsisted of some work the post: both srg wh an assistant ach fendg, and learng how the Jazz might move players around him to fd open cutters and short, ’s not that Gay don’t want to be around, or that he’s takg easy.

HAWKS' RUDY GAY: TRAD TO ATLANTA

“Oh man, he’s been a great lear for , ” said Mike Conley — who also played wh Gay Memphis. ”The return may not be soon, but Gay isn’t worried how the Jazz will fare his absence.