Warrrs Add First Openly Gay Exec to Front Office – NBC Bay Area

Contents:

• REPORT: WARRRS EXPECTED TO SHOW TERT RUDY GAY
• IS RUDY GAY A GOOD F?
• GAY NBA TEAM PRINT RICK WELTS JT MARRIED HIS LONGTIME BOYIEND
• WARRRS ADD FIRST OPENLY GAY EXEC TO FRONT OFFICE
• REPORT: MARK JACKSON MA ANTI-GAY MENTS ABOUT WARRRS PRINT, JASON COLLS WHILE ACHG GOLN STATE
• RICK WELTS, LEGENDARY GAY NBA EXECUTIVE, ANNOUNC RETIREMENT

REPORT: WARRRS EXPECTED TO SHOW TERT RUDY GAY

Report: Warrrs expected to show tert Rudy Gay origally appeared on NBC Sports Bay AreaShould the Warrrs look outsi the anizatn to fill their 14th roster spot, uld they pursue 17-year NBA veteran Rudy Gay? The former Jazz forward h ee agency last week after a seri of tras, which sent him om Utah to the Atlanta Hawks then to the Oklahoma Cy Thunr, who waived Gay on, Gay is expected to draw tert om several teams cludg the Warrrs, Michael Stto of Hoops Hype reported Friday, cg league sourc (h/t Bleacher Report).

0 assists 56 gam wh a 38 percent shootg percentage om the Gay was cut by the Thunr, Anthony Slater of The Athletic noted him as a "name to monor" should he bee available, given the fact that the "Warrrs have had tert the past.

"Goln State certaly is w-now mo, lookg to take advantage of their agg re of Steph Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green by surroundg them wh veteran addns like Chris Pl and Dar Šarić Šarić is expected to play a role siar to what likely would be expected of Gay on the Warrrs, the team has to make sure another addn like him wouldn't take time away om velopg Jonathan Kumga at the forward posn. That beg said, grabbg more onturt pth on a veteran mimum ntract uld be too enticg to pass up -- though two-way guard Lter Quon uld pete for the Warrrs' 14th roster spot trag even though Gay appears to be on the cle, 's possible ach Steve Kerr uld fd a way for him to make an impact wh the Warrrs.

IS RUDY GAY A GOOD F?

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.

GAY NBA TEAM PRINT RICK WELTS JT MARRIED HIS LONGTIME BOYIEND

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.

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

WARRRS ADD FIRST OPENLY GAY EXEC TO FRONT OFFICE

Should the Warrrs look outsi the anizatn to fill their 14th roster spot, uld they pursue 17-year NBA veteran Rudy Gay? The former Jazz forward h ee agency last week after a seri of tras, which sent him om Utah to the Atlanta Hawks then to the Oklahoma Cy Thunr, who waived Gay on Wednday.

Now, Gay is expected to draw tert om several teams cludg the Warrrs, Michael Stto of Hoops Hype reported Friday, cg league sourc (h/t Bleacher Report). Stto also listed the Los Angel Lakers, Dallas Mavericks, Chigo Bulls and New Orleans Pelins as the other "playoff-liber" teams expected to pursue Gay.

REPORT: MARK JACKSON MA ANTI-GAY MENTS ABOUT WARRRS PRINT, JASON COLLS WHILE ACHG GOLN STATE

Gay will turn 37 Augt and posted reer-low numbers as a member of Utah's rotatn durg the 2022-23 NBA season -- save for two weeks he was siled by a fger spra. Before Gay was cut by the Thunr, Anthony Slater of The Athletic noted him as a "name to monor" should he bee available, given the fact that the "Warrrs have had tert the past.

While Šarić is expected to play a role siar to what likely would be expected of Gay on the Warrrs, the team has to make sure another addn like him wouldn't take time away om velopg Jonathan Kumga at the forward posn. But even though Gay appears to be on the cle, 's possible ach Steve Kerr uld fd a way for him to make an impact wh the Warrrs. An openly gay print of an NBA team stands ntrast to what has been the norm men's major league sports the U.

RICK WELTS, LEGENDARY GAY NBA EXECUTIVE, ANNOUNC RETIREMENT

11, 2020, 11:27 PM UTCThe print of the Goln State Warrrs has wed his longtime Welts and Todd Gage were married by San Francis Mayor London Breed her office on Friday, Welts announced on and Gage have been together ne years, Welts said his, who me out as gay 2011, has been an stmental part of the Warrrs' succs over the last ne years, helpg the team appear five straight NBA Fals, w three openly gay print of an NBA team stands ntrast to what has been the norm men's major league sports the U. In 2018, Coll Mart, a soccer player for Mnota Uned announced on Twter that he was gay, which ma him the only openly gay male player North Amerin sports leagu. Sports executive to publicly intify as a gay man, has tied the knot.

Women’s natnal soccer team pta Megan Rapoe and WNBA star Sue Bird wh Goln State Warrrs' Shaw via Getty ImagSce then, Welts has led the Warrrs to three champnship ws and five NBA fals number of openly LGBTQ sports officials clus Erik Braverman, who me out as gay 2015 and serv as the senr vice print of marketg, munitns and broadstg for the Los Angel Dodgers.

He announced May that he was gay, beg the first senr sports executive to do so. Welts left a posn as print and chief executive of the Phoenix Suns earlier this month for personal reasons, four months after he beme the first senr sports executive to openly acknowledge he was gay. He announced May that he was gay.