NBA Free Agency: Rudy Gay reportedly opts out of ntract, be ee agent

Contents:

• NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE
• THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY, VETERAN BE FREE AGENT
• LAKERS NOT: REAV, WTBROOK, CASTLETON, GAY
• IS RUDY GAY A GOOD F?
• RUDY GAY
• UTAH JAZZ, RUDY GAY AGREE TO 2-YEAR AL NBA EE AGENCY
• NBA FREE AGENCY RUMORS: LAKERS ONE OF MANY TEAMS EXPECTED TO HAVE INTERT IN RUDY GAY
• NBA RUMORS: CELTICS SEE PATTY MILLS, RUDY GAY AS FREE AGENT OPTNS
• UTAH JAZZ ADDG RUDY GAY, LOSG GE NIANG EE AGENCY
• NBA FREE AGENCY: RUDY GAY REPORTEDLY OPTS OUT OF NTRACT, BE EE AGENT

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.

THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY, VETERAN BE FREE AGENT

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.

LAKERS NOT: REAV, WTBROOK, CASTLETON, GAY

NBA Analysis NetworkThe Oklahoma Cy Thunr are waivg veteran small forward Rudy Gay, acrdg to NBA sir Shams Charania of The Athletic and Stadium. Gay is now an unrtricted ee agent, assumg he go unclaimed on waivers, which is played for the Utah Jazz last season. 7% om the ee-throw 36-year-old Gay has reer averag of 15.

0 assists 1, 120 gam wh the Memphis Grizzli, Toronto Raptors, Sacramento Kgs, San Anton Spurs and NEWS & RUMORS: Rudy Gay & Oklahoma Cy Thunr UpdatThe Goln State Warrrs uld pursue Gay, acrdg to Anthony Slater of The Athletic. The Dubs have been lked to Gay the past.

Gay was teammat wh Warrrs stars Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson on the 2014 FIBA World Cup Team. After a recent tra wh Atlanta to grab Usman Gaba, TyTy Washgton and Rudy Gay, Oklahoma Cy is overmted on guaranteed roster slots, ” Slater wrote.

IS RUDY GAY A GOOD F?

Gay has $6.

”NBA NEWS & RUMORS: Rudy Gay & Oklahoma Cy Thunr UpdatGoln State trad Jordan Poole to the Washgton Wizards for Chris Pl this summer. It will be tertg to see if Goln State adds Gay to the roster for some forward the latt NBA analysis, breakg news, and sir rmatn? Joed ESPN 2017In a al that livers the anchise dramatic fancial flexibily, the Atlanta Hawks are tradg forward John Colls to the Utah Jazz, sourc told ESPN on Hawks are acquirg forward Rudy Gay and a future send-round pick for Colls, who is owed $78 ln over the next three seasons, sourc said.

The Jazz were an offensive revelatn unr first-year ach Will Hardy, and Colls' arrival uld help Utah return to the Wtern Conference playoffs next Hawks and Jazz have discsed numero eratns of the al for over a year, but the reali of the loomg chang the league's new llective bargag agreement left the balance of Colls' ntract difficult to move for a return of assets -- siar to the Goln State Warrrs' recent unloadg of Jordan Poole and the $130 ln-pl owed Atlanta, the acquisn of Gay -- who exercised his $6. In se you missed , the Lakers are among several teams wh tert veteran forward Rudy Gay, who was waived by the Thunr on Thursday.

RUDY GAY

One such piece — and a highly-predictable one, at that — is veteran forward Rudy Gay, who was recently waived by the Oklahoma Cy Thunr, after beg ed as filler two different offseason tras: first when the Utah Jazz shipped him to the Atlanta Hawks the John Colls al, and then when the Hawks sent him to the Thunr the Patty Mills tra. Dpe beg a 17-year veteran — he was drafted one year after Chris Pl, and one pick ahead of Patrick O’Bryant — Gay has never shared an NBA locker room wh any Warrrs. Not only have they played (and ached) agast him for years, but Gay was teammat wh Steph Curry and Klay Thompson on the Team USA squad that won gold at the 2014 FIBA World Cup, and also teammat wh Curry (and Andre Iguodala) on the gold medal-wng 2010 team.

Perhaps most importantly, Gay spent four seasons — four recent seasons, crilly — playg for the San Anton Spurs and Steve Kerr’s mentor, Gregg Popovich. If the Warrrs are terted Gay, you n bet that Kerr and Pop have talked about , and about how he handled the swch om high-volume starter/srer to veteran bench piece.

That is, theory, the biggt benef of Gay: beg a tsty and smart vet that n fill the Iguodala role.

UTAH JAZZ, RUDY GAY AGREE TO 2-YEAR AL NBA EE AGENCY

Which is good, bee ’s unclear if Gay has anythg left the tank on the urt.

NBA FREE AGENCY RUMORS: LAKERS ONE OF MANY TEAMS EXPECTED TO HAVE INTERT IN RUDY GAY

It’s easy to make the se for Gay, sce the Warrrs rotatn seems pretty set as is, wh an 11-player rotatn of Curry, Pl, Thompson, Wiggs, Green, Kumga, Moody, Kevon Looney, Gary Payton II, Dar Šarić, and Cory Joseph.

NBA RUMORS: CELTICS SEE PATTY MILLS, RUDY GAY AS FREE AGENT OPTNS

If the Dubs want Gay, he’d probably be an easy target. Here’s a staggerg stat: Gay is 68th NBA history regular season gam played, wh 1, 120. There’s also a cent chance that Gay go unsigned, and that the Dubs uld brg him to trag mp on a non-guaranteed al to get a better look at him.

Should the Warrrs sign Rudy Gay? To see the rt of the Rudy Gay's ntract breakdowns, & ga accs to all of Spotrac's Premium tools, sign up today. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH - JANUARY 01: Andrew Wiggs #22 of the Goln State Warrrs driv to Rudy Gay #8 of the Utah Jazz durg the send half of a game at Vivt Smart Home Arena on January 01, 2022 Salt Lake Cy, Utah.

(Photo by Alex Goodlett/Getty Imag) Veteran forward Rudy Gay has firmed as a name to monor for the Goln State Warrrs’ 14th roster spot, wh the 36-year-old reportedly waived by the Oklahoma Cy Thunr on Wednday acrdg to The Athletic’s Shams Charania.

UTAH JAZZ ADDG RUDY GAY, LOSG GE NIANG EE AGENCY

The move is hardly a surprise given the Thunr’s surpl of ntracted players, leavg Gay as a ee agent after he was ially alt by the Utah Jazz to the Atlanta Hawks a tra for John Colls. Dpe his experience and potential f wh the anchise, the Goln State Warrrs should be wary of signg newly-available ee agent Rudy Gay.

Acrdg to The Athletic’s Anthony Slater last week, Gay is “someone the Warrrs have had tert the past” and that “he’s a name to monor”. But that’s not to say his acquisn wouldn’t e wh Gay #8 of the Utah Jazz shoots a three-pot shot over Jordan Poole #3 of the Goln State Warrrs durg a game January 2022.

Henrson/Getty Imag)Goln State have recently signed another power-forward/small-ball center, Dar Saric, that will fill a siar role to that of what Gay theoretilly uld. Whether ’s Gay or anyone else, any signg for the the anchise is now about providg surance and pth rather than the set abily to provi 15-20+ mut each night.

NBA FREE AGENCY: RUDY GAY REPORTEDLY OPTS OUT OF NTRACT, BE EE AGENT

Given Gay’s cle over the past two seasons, there’s genue qutn marks on how much impact he n have regardls. Perhaps that’s the perfect rult — maybe Gay isn’t a regular rotatn player anymore and n simply fill for a few mut at a pch when jury and/or foul trouble hs.

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Buy Bulls TicketsAcrdg to Michael Stto of HoopsHype, the Bulls are expected to be one of many teams to show an tert 17-year NBA veteran Rudy Gay. “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.