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• RUDY GAY SAYS OFFSEASON SURGERY ALLOWS HIM TO HAVE A H START WH THE JAZZ
• RUDY GAY ISN’T EXPECTED BACK SOON, BUT HE TELLS UTAH JAZZ FANS NOT TO BE WORRIED
• RUDY GAY MAK SHOCKG 5-YEAR JURY ADMISSN THAT ULD BOOST JAZZ TLE HOP
• RUDY GAY

RUDY GAY SAYS OFFSEASON SURGERY ALLOWS HIM TO HAVE A H START WH THE JAZZ

Utah Jazz forward Rudy Gay (8) s as he talks durg Utah Jazz media media day at Vivt Arena Salt Lake Cy on Monday, Sept.

Once Utah Jazz forward Rudy Gay is cleared to play aga, he expects he’ll be feelg better than June, Gay had surgery on his right heel and is still reverg om that procre. The surgery wasn’t prompted by any sort of jury, stead was meant to clean up thgs that have been plagug Gay for a while now. “I never got hurt, ” Gay said after Jazz practice on Friday.

RUDY GAY ISN’T EXPECTED BACK SOON, BUT HE TELLS UTAH JAZZ FANS NOT TO BE WORRIED

Gay started havg trouble wh the right heel back 2017 when he missed nearly seven weeks when pa ed by retrolneal bursis siled him. That persistent pa, pl a bone spur the right heel meant that Gay has been playg wh at least some level of pa for the past five havg the problem areas cleaned up his heel, Gay feels like ’ll be a chance to have a h start Utah, a place where he has felt immediately weled by the team and achg staff, a place where he feels like he’s able to be more himself than he has through the latter part of his reer. Bee Gay feels like the f wh the Jazz is such a good marriage, ’s validated his cisn to have the offseason procre.

“This is a good team whout me, ” Gay said.

“It’s surgery at the end of the day, ” Gay said wh a lgh. Gay has been able to n and do dividual work on the urt through trag mp and the preason but hasn’t been cleared for full ntact he’s not worried about the Jazz beg able to w gam whout him, Gay did make a pot to say that he’s the same player who me back om a ptured left achill 2017 pretty short orr, so he’s not lookg to drag out the revery procs any longer than needs to Jazz have said that while Gay will not play durg the preason and isn’t expected to be ready for the season opener at home agast the Oklahoma Cy Thunr on Oct. 20, he is expected to make a return to play the early part of the 2021-22 he’s pletely revered and able to play, Gay should be able to do so whout the disfort that’s been naggg him for the last several seasons.

RUDY GAY MAK SHOCKG 5-YEAR JURY ADMISSN THAT ULD BOOST JAZZ TLE HOP

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) Rudy Gay is terviewed durg Utah Jazz media day at Vivt Arena, Monday, Sept. 27, 2021 Salt Lake ’s both a glass-half-empty way and a glass-half-full way to look at Rudy Gay’s Friday, the Utah Jazz forward mented publicly for the first time on his offseason surgery to repair his right heel, the same surgery that has kept him out of the Jazz’s preason actn so far and will ntue to keep him out through the early part of the regular said that the heel had ed him pa that he’d been “playg wh for a while” — five years, fact.

And fally, he cid last season that the pa had gotten to be too much, and he’d unrgo the surgery to rrect both Gay and the team are beg extremely ut about his return, too. So I unrstand people expect me to go out there and play, ” Gay said. ”So there’s the glass-half-empty news: Gay don’t know when he’ll return, nor do there seem to be particular urgency the eback.

The prry is the playoffs, and the team will sacrifice regular-season mut the the glass-half-full aspect is this: Gay was a pretty solid NBA ntributor over the last five seasons, playg through pa.

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And will some rt the regular season mean Gay plays at a higher level April, May, and June? Optimists out there uld also take some joy Gay’s practice workouts.

Even though he hasn’t been any gam so far, Gay has been part of the team’s shootg ntts, fdg himself groups wh all liber of marksmen, om Rudy Gobert to Joe Friday, his practice also nsisted of some work the post: both srg wh an assistant ach fendg, and learng how the Jazz might move players around him to fd open cutters and short, ’s not that Gay don’t want to be around, or that he’s takg easy. “Oh man, he’s been a great lear for , ” said Mike Conley — who also played wh Gay Memphis. ”The return may not be soon, but Gay isn’t worried how the Jazz will fare his absence.