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RUDY GAY HAS AGREED TO A TWO-YEAR AL WH THE UTAH JAZZ

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After Gui Dieng agreed to a one-year, $4 ln al wh the Atlanta Hawks, and Trey Lyl agreed to two years, $5 ln wh the Detro Pistons yterday, the Spurs have felt their first notable impact terms of losg a player today wh the announcement that Rudy Gay will be signg wh the Utah Jazz on a two-year, $12 ln al (send year player optn).

Rudy Gay is signg a two-year, $12. Gay me to the Spurs ahead of the 2017-18 season, and at the time felt like a big signg. Unfortunately, didn’t work out that way as Leonard only played eight gam the followg season before mandg a tra, and the Spurs never me close to gettg Gay the rg he was seekg when he signed here.

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

(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.

And will some rt the regular season mean Gay plays at a higher level April, May, and June?

REPORT: RUDY GAY AGRE TO TWO-YEAR, $12.1 LN AL WH JAZZ

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. “The fact that this team was the number one team the league last year whout me, that giv me a chn, ” Gay said. The ensemble st Utah jt got a ltle Gay has reached a two-year, $12.