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Contents:
- GRIZZLI TRA RUDY GAY TO RAPTORS THREE-TEAM AL WH PISTONS
- RUDY GAY TRA ANALYSIS: WHY MEMPHIS MA OUT LIKE BANDS
- GRIZZLI TAKE NECSARY STEP BACK BY TRADG RUDY GAY
- RUDY GAY TRAD TO RAPTORS
- CHRIS PL SAYS THE GRIZZLI WOULD BE 'CRAZY' TO TRA RUDY GAY
- GRA THE TRA: RAPTORS LAND THEIR ANCHISE RNERSTONE RUDY GAY
- RUDY GAY HNTS GRIZZLI
- NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE
- RUDY GAY TRA: GRIZZLI' F ALT TO RAPTORS, TAYSHN PRCE GO TO MEMPHIS
GRIZZLI TRA RUDY GAY TO RAPTORS THREE-TEAM AL WH PISTONS
The Grizzli will tra Rudy Gay to the Raptors a al that also giv Pistons forward Tayshn Prce to Memphis. * grizzlies trade rudy gay *
The Memphis Grizzli have trad forward Rudy Gay to the Toronto Grizzli receive pot guard Jose Calron as part of the al, and routed Calron's $10. In Prce, the Grizzli get a rpected, if not agg, small forward who'll give them nsirable savgs over the $37 ln owed Gay the next two seasons.
RUDY GAY TRA ANALYSIS: WHY MEMPHIS MA OUT LIKE BANDS
* grizzlies trade rudy gay *
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.
GRIZZLI TAKE NECSARY STEP BACK BY TRADG RUDY GAY
Realizg they n't have an L.A. appete on a Memphis budget, the Grizzli move on whout Rudy Gay. * grizzlies trade rudy gay *
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.
RUDY GAY TRAD TO RAPTORS
The Grizzli, Raptors and Pistons agreed to a six-player tra Wednday that sent star swgman Rudy Gay to Toronto. * grizzlies trade rudy gay *
Holls was very close wh Gay, so gettg back a name like Prce will at least appease him.
CHRIS PL SAYS THE GRIZZLI WOULD BE 'CRAZY' TO TRA RUDY GAY
Chris Pl and Rudy Gay are pals. They play on teams that appear to not like each other very much. But when CP3 was asked about the mors floatg around volvg Gay and the tra adle, Pl didn't hold back. * grizzlies trade rudy gay *
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.
Holls was vol his support for Gay, and the players all liked him too.
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. Gay has cled this year -- his srg is down and his PER is jt 14.
GRA THE TRA: RAPTORS LAND THEIR ANCHISE RNERSTONE RUDY GAY
Gradg the rults of the tra of Rudy Gay to Toronto, Ed Davis, Tayshn Prce, and At Daye to Memphis, and Jose Calron to Detro. * grizzlies trade rudy gay *
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.
RUDY GAY HNTS GRIZZLI
If the Memphis Grizzli were really thkg champnship, management unrmed that goal wh the Rudy Gay tra earlier this season. * grizzlies trade rudy gay *
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. The one thg that uld salvage all of this: movg Gay to power forward.
NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE
I know 's pretty drastic, but Gay has thrived at the posn ternatnal play and is certaly jt as big as many stretch 4s.
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. By alg Rudy Gay, the Grizzli save themselv $26.
21 adle: Rudy Gay to the Raptors return for, sentially, $26 ln.
RUDY GAY TRA: GRIZZLI' F ALT TO RAPTORS, TAYSHN PRCE GO TO MEMPHIS
The Grizzli went om starg at a $7 ln luxury tax bill a week ago -- and exponentially more punive penalti the next two seasons if they kept Gay -- to shavg a total of $12.