NBA Rumors: Jam Harn Tra Talks, Joel Embiid, PJ Tucker, Rudy Gay

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 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.

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.

RUDY GAY TRA ANALYSIS: WHY MEMPHIS MA OUT LIKE BANDS

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

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.

RUDY GAY TRAD TO RAPTORS

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.

CHRIS PL SAYS THE GRIZZLI WOULD BE 'CRAZY' TO TRA RUDY GAY

Gay has cled this year -- his srg is down and his PER is jt 14. 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.

GRA THE TRA: RAPTORS LAND THEIR ANCHISE RNERSTONE RUDY GAY

The one thg that uld salvage all of this: movg Gay to power forward.

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.

RUDY GAY HNTS GRIZZLI

By alg Rudy Gay, the Grizzli save themselv $26.

21 adle: Rudy Gay to the Raptors return for, sentially, $26 ln. 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.

He bought the Grizzli, and anyone wh the abily to read a spreadsheet uld figure out that Memphis uld not afford to have three players -- Gay, Marc Gasol and Zach Randolph -- makg a bed $50 ln each of the next two seasons. The cisn was ma to move Gay now while tax relief also was gog to e wh three players and a draft pick. The Grizzli wound up gettg Ed Davis and a send-round pick om Toronto, pl Tayshn Prce and At Daye om the Pistons for Gay.

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

Prce n fill some of Gay's role on the wg at nearly a third of the st, while not needg as many touch or shots on offense. Wh $8 ln of room unr the tax le, Memphis also has time and room to explore other als that uld replenish the pth they've sacrificed their payroll purge -- an optn they wouldn't have had if they'd waed until the summer to move Gay.

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

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. Memphis general manager Chris Wallace thanked both Gay and Haddadi for their time wh the Grizzli.