Stto's Latt: Tucker, Gay, Sumner, Noel | Hoops Rumors

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• NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE
• THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY
• RUDY GAY TRAD TO RAPTORS
• RUDY GAY TRA ANALYSIS: WHY MEMPHIS MA OUT LIKE BANDS
• STTO’S LATT: TUCKER, GAY, SUMNER, NOEL
• RUDY GAY TO KGS 7-PLAYER AL
• GRA THE TRA: KGS ACQUIRE RUDY GAY OM RAPTORS HUGE TRA
• RUDY GAY TRA: GRIZZLI' F ALT TO RAPTORS, TAYSHN PRCE GO TO MEMPHIS
• GRA THE TRA: RAPTORS LAND THEIR ANCHISE RNERSTONE RUDY GAY
• RAPTORS TRA TREE: HOW RUDY GAY TURNED TO SERGE IBAKA
• IMPACT OF RUDY GAY TRA OM RAPTORS TO THE KGS
• RUDY GAY TRA REACTN: SB NATN'S PANEL OF EXPERTS ASSS THE AL
• REVISG THE RUDY GAY TRA FOR THE RAPTORS: IS WORKG?
• GRIZZLI TRA RUDY GAY TO RAPTORS THREE-TEAM AL WH PISTONS

NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE

NBA Rumors: Jam Harn tra talks, Joel Embiid, PJ Tucker, Rudy Gay, Lakers, Warrrs, Bucks, more.

Below is the latt tel gathered by HoopsHype on the Harn tra talks and how they uld affect Joel Embiid and PJ Tucker, ee agency updat on Rudy Gay, Edmond Sumner, and Nerlens Noel, along wh not on the Lakers, Warrrs, Bucks, Mavericks, and more on HoopsHype. Veteran forward Rudy Gay is expected to draw tert om several playoff-liber teams, cludg the Goln State Warrrs, Los Angel Lakers, Dallas Mavericks, Chigo Bulls, and New Orleans Pelins, league sourc told HoopsHype. Gay was healthy last season m a fger jot spra that siled him for two weeks and a member of Utah’s rotatn through most of last season.

THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY

JULY 19: The Thunr are waivg forward Rudy Gay, sourc tell Shams Charania of The Athletic (Twter lk).

RUDY GAY TRAD TO RAPTORS

As Joe Msatto of The Oklahoman tweets, releasg Gay will open up a roster spot, which the Thunr will e to officially sign Jack Whe.

Gay has had a long and highly productive NBA reer, often poppg up on lists of the bt players to have never been an All-Star.

RUDY GAY TRA ANALYSIS: WHY MEMPHIS MA OUT LIKE BANDS

His productn slipped as well, wh Gay postg reer lows virtually every major statistic over the past two mpaigns. Overall, Gay has appeared 1120 regular season ntts, cludg 779 starts, wh reer averag of 15.

Gay is virtually certa to go unclaimed on the waiver wire, as he’ll earn a guaranteed $6, 479, 000 ’23/24, which is the fal year of his ntract. Anthony Slater of The Athletic prevly intified the Warrrs as a team that might be terted Gay if he were to h the open market.

News servicJan 30, 2013, 05:29 PM ETThe Grizzli, Raptors and Pistons agreed to a six-player tra Wednday that sent star swgman Rudy Gay to Grizzli, the midst of a money-motivated makeover, acquired forward Ed Davis and veteran guard Jose Calron the al that also sent backup center Hamed Haddadi to the Raptors. Memphis then shipped Calron to Detro for At Daye and Tayshn Grizzli also received a 2013 send-round pick om Toronto as part of the Dallas Mavericks, sourc said, were also terted acquirg Calron but were not prepared to surrenr swgman Vce Carter, whom Memphis veted to help fill the void created by Gay's parture.

STTO’S LATT: TUCKER, GAY, SUMNER, NOEL

Memphis general manager Chris Wallace thanked both Gay and Haddadi for their time wh the Grizzli. Tradg away Gay also eas a luxury tax h due next season, while ncentratg the team around center Marc Gasol and All-Star forward Zach Randolph.

1 seed San Anton before losg to Oklahoma Cy seven gam the Wtern semifals -- all wh Gay on the bench after needg season-endg shoulr surgery. "They do n the risk of upsettg the chemistry on a tight-kn group, even if there were some qutns of how Gay's srg f wh the ball-domant onturt of Gasol and there may be more als like this one g the new NBA llective bargag agreement negotiated after last year's lockout mak the penalti for exceedg the salary p far more punive, and the system begs earnt next season.

RUDY GAY TO KGS 7-PLAYER AL

Calron and Davis had both been startg for the Raptors, but they do have Kyle Lowry wag the wgs at pot guard and likely see Gay's srg punch as the key to vltg back to the discsn a medcre Dwane Casey will have to al wh a b of a log jam wh Gay, DeMar DeRozan, Terrence Ross, Landry Fields and Alan Anrson as wg players wh siar skill gettg a player wh Gay's natural srg talent, even at the expense of partg wh a valued player like Calron, proved too enticg to pass up.

As wh any al the new fislly-nsc NBA, the Rudy Gay tra volvg the Grizzli, Raptors and Pistons n be analyzed om many different angl. Some might lament the three-team al that sent Gay to the Raptors, Tayshn Prce and Ed Davis to the Grizzli and Jose Calron to the Pistons bee the bt team volved trad s leadg srer for fancial reasons. MORE: Straight Outta Vanuver | Detro Bad Boys | Raptors HQComplete Rudy Gay tra verage.

As has been mentned before this space, was always a matter of when, not if, the Grizzli would tra Gay, even after a recent tra of Marree Speights and Wayne Ellgton got Memphis unr the luxury-tax thrhold for this year. The Grizzli therefore had only one choice to make: tra Gay now, or tra Gay the offseason.

GRA THE TRA: KGS ACQUIRE RUDY GAY OM RAPTORS HUGE TRA

Spacg has been a major issue, thanks large part to Gay's awkward f wh Marc Gasol and Zach Randolph. This is the perd of the game where you'd thk Gay's shot-creatn skills would be most valuable.

Holls was very close wh Gay, so gettg back a name like Prce will at least appease him. That's good for Memphis, bee the last thg they need is a worse versn of Gay.

Gay shot only 31 percent on three-poters this year, and that shortg allowed his fenr to cheat off him to help on Randolph and Gasol the post. Throw Prce's obv fensive strengths -- he's regrsed sce his glory days of 2004, but he's still at least as good as Gay -- and the Grizzli have clarified their offensive peckg orr while matag or even enhancg their stiflg fense. They got a battle-tted, role-playg small forward that n approximate a lot of Gay's skills and f wh the team's post players.

RUDY GAY TRA: GRIZZLI' F ALT TO RAPTORS, TAYSHN PRCE GO TO MEMPHIS

A change of scenery should bump Gay's numbers back up to where they ed to be. The Raptors will pay a bed $50 ln next season to Gay, Andrea Bargnani, DeMar DeRozan, Amir Johnson and Landry Fields next year. RAPTORS HQ: Not jt about talentMORE: One Raptors' fan Rudy Gay nightmare.

The biggt issue: 's gog to be awfully difficult to divi wg touch between Gay and DeRozan. Gay has sred on jt 32 percent of his spot-up opportuni and is htg jt 27 percent of his thre the spots. I know 's pretty drastic, but Gay has thrived at the posn ternatnal play and is certaly jt as big as many stretch 4s.

GRA THE TRA: RAPTORS LAND THEIR ANCHISE RNERSTONE RUDY GAY

Better yet, movg Gay to power forward would ee up mut for Ross, who has e on recently. A lp of Lowry, DeRozan, Ross, Gay and a healthy Valanciunas would be very difficult to fend.

Free agent forward Rudy Gay, who was recently released by the Thunr, is drawg tert om several potential playoff teams, acrdg to Stto. The Warrrs, Lakers, Mavericks, Bulls and Pelins have all registered tert Gay, per Stto. Gay will be 37 by the time next season starts and while his role has dimished each of the past three seasons, he’s still a seasoned veteran wh 17 years of NBA experience.

RAPTORS TRA TREE: HOW RUDY GAY TURNED TO SERGE IBAKA

Each team lked to Gay has at least one roster spot open and uld offer him a one-year, veteran’s mimum which, for a player wh 10+ years of experience, is worth roughly $3.

IMPACT OF RUDY GAY TRA OM RAPTORS TO THE KGS

Rudy Gay to Kgs 7-player alBrian WdhorstCloseBrian WdhorstESPN Senr NBA wrer sce 2010. Coverg the NBA sce 1995Dec 8, 2013, 07:54 PM ETThe Toronto Raptors have trad Rudy Gay to the Sacramento Kgs, the teams announced Monday, ls than 24 hours after they reached an al volv seven players, wh the Kgs sendg John Salmons, Greivis Vasquez, Patrick Patterson and Chuck Hay to Toronto exchange for Gay, Aaron Gray and Qucy Acy.

RUDY GAY TRA REACTN: SB NATN'S PANEL OF EXPERTS ASSS THE AL

It was required to be a large tra to acmodate Gay's salary, which is more than $17 ln this, Gray and Acy will not be uniform when the Kgs host the Dallas Mavericks on Monday night. Sports earlier reported the Raptors are givg up on Gay ls than a year after tradg for him and are sentially offloadg his ntract, which has another year and $20 ln on , for three players who will be ee agents after this Kgs get a high-volume srer Gay and n pair him wh newly acquired forward Derrick Williams the onturt along wh DeMarc Cos.

Gay, who was trad last January by the Memphis Grizzli a siar money dump, is one of the hight-paid players the league. "The tra for Gay was one of the last acts of former Raptors general manager Bryan Colangelo, who rigned last summer. Wh the reported tra that the Sacramento Kgs have moved four players to acquire Rudy Gay and two other players om the Toronto Raptors, we're takg a look at all of the movg parts and salary implitns the al.

By movg the big money owed to Rudy Gay over this season and next season ($37. Now Ujiri has moved Andrea Bargnani and Rudy Gay ($60 ln mted over this season and next season bed) exchange for valuable tra assets/role players and a draft pick the tra wh the Knicks.

REVISG THE RUDY GAY TRA FOR THE RAPTORS: IS WORKG?

While mtg $19 ln to the books next year for Gay is a pretty big al for them, they now have a big expirg ntract headg to next season of a very talented player. The key to how much you like this tra for the Kgs is how much you believe Gay is salvageable as an impact player. It will be tertg to see if he valu Gay as a long-term piece or if he tri to flip him this summer to a ntenr lookg for some "srg punch.

GRIZZLI TRA RUDY GAY TO RAPTORS THREE-TEAM AL WH PISTONS

Wh a lot of negativy surroundg his team followg the Rudy Gay tra, Grizzli head ach Lnel Holls attempted to clear the air on Friday before the team's w over the Warrrs. The Toronto Raptors held a prs nference on Friday for their new small forward, Rudy Gay.

Grizzli ach Lnel Holls has not had much to say about the Rudy Gay tra but, based on what he did say, he do not seem too happy. The Memphis Grizzli trad away Rudy Gay to save some money and may still have e out better on the other si.