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Contents:

• THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY
• RUDYGAY
• RUDY GAY SIGNS WH JAZZ

THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY

JULY 20: The Thunr have officially released Gay, per a prs statement.

JULY 19: The Thunr are waivg forward Rudy Gay, sourc tell Shams Charania of The Athletic (Twter lk). Gay, who turns 37 next month, has been trad twice this offseason.

As Joe Msatto of The Oklahoman tweets, releasg Gay will open up a roster spot, which the Thunr will e to officially sign Jack Whe. Gay has had a long and highly productive NBA reer, often poppg up on lists of the bt players to have never been an All-Star.

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His productn slipped as well, wh Gay postg reer lows virtually every major statistic over the past two mpaigns. Overall, Gay has appeared 1120 regular season ntts, cludg 779 starts, wh reer averag of 15. Gay is virtually certa to go unclaimed on the waiver wire, as he’ll earn a guaranteed $6, 479, 000 ’23/24, which is the fal year of his ntract.

RUDY GAY SIGNS WH JAZZ

Anthony Slater of The Athletic prevly intified the Warrrs as a team that might be terted Gay if he were to h the open market. 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. 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. 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 Monday.The 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 season.The 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 him.For Atlanta, the acquisn of Gay -- who exercised his $6.4 ln player optn for next season as part of the tra, his agent, Sam Permut of Roc Natn Sports, told ESPN -- allows the Hawks to drop far below the $182.5 ln send apron and beneath the $165 ln luxury tax thrhold for the 2023-24 season.Neverthels, the Hawks are expected to rema al-makg mo this offseason, and ownership has given general manager Landry Fields the OK to move to the luxury tax should be necsary to improve the roster, sourc said.The parture of Colls also giv Atlanta a fuller opportuny to navigate possible ntract extensns for three young re players: Dejounte Murray, Onyeka Okongwu and Saddiq Bey.Colls' parture will also open up an opportuny for forward Jalen Johnson to take on a more proment role his third season.Posng themselv below the NBA's new send-apron tax level ahead of 2024 assur that the Hawks won't be sceptible to the punive team-buildg provisns that uld have severely hampered the anchise's roster flexibily.Colls is a Hawks succs story, the 19th overall pick 2017 who turned to one of the Eastern Conference's better forwards.