Gra the Tra: Raptors land their anchise rnerstone Rudy Gay

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The Toronto Raptors have trad Rudy Gay to the Sacramento Kgs, the teams announced Monday, ls than 24 hours after they reached an agreement.

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THE RUDY GAY TRA OP

The Grizzli, Raptors and Pistons agreed to a six-player tra Wednday that sent star swgman Rudy Gay to Toronto. * rudy gay trade memphis *

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.

RUDY GAY TRAD TO RAPTORS

The Memphis Grizzli trad away Rudy Gay to save some money and may still have e out better on the other si. We gra each team volved this three-team al. * rudy gay trade memphis *

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 15.8 PPG, 5.6 RPG, 2.0 APG, 1.1 SPG and 0.7 BPG on .452/.346/.799 shootg 30.9 MPG. 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 TRA ANALYSIS: WHY MEMPHIS MA OUT LIKE BANDS

The Grizzli will tra Rudy Gay to the Raptors a al that also giv Pistons forward Tayshn Prce to Memphis. * rudy gay trade memphis *

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. 22hShea Carlson, news servicJan 30, 2013, 05:29 PM ETThe Grizzli, Raptors and Pistons agreed to a six-player tra Wednday that sent star swgman Rudy Gay to Grizzli, the midst of a money-motivated makeover, acquired forward Ed Davis and veteran guard Jose Calron the al that also sent backup center Hamed Haddadi to the Raptors. Memphis then shipped Calron to Detro for At Daye and Tayshn Grizzli also received a 2013 send-round pick om Toronto as part of the Dallas Mavericks, sourc said, were also terted acquirg Calron but were not prepared to surrenr swgman Vce Carter, whom Memphis veted to help fill the void created by Gay's parture.

Memphis general manager Chris Wallace thanked both Gay and Haddadi for their time wh the Grizzli. "Gay, averagg 17.

GRIZZLI TRA RUDY GAY TO RAPTORS THREE-TEAM AL WH PISTONS

Gradg the rults of the tra of Rudy Gay to Toronto, Ed Davis, Tayshn Prce, and At Daye to Memphis, and Jose Calron to Detro. * rudy gay trade memphis *

Tradg away Gay also eas a luxury tax h due next season, while ncentratg the team around center Marc Gasol and All-Star forward Zach Randolph. 1 seed San Anton before losg to Oklahoma Cy seven gam the Wtern semifals -- all wh Gay on the bench after needg season-endg shoulr surgery.

"Are you ser Rudy Gay is right there unr KD, Lebron, Kobe, and Melo. "They do n the risk of upsettg the chemistry on a tight-kn group, even if there were some qutns of how Gay's srg f wh the ball-domant onturt of Gasol and there may be more als like this one g the new NBA llective bargag agreement negotiated after last year's lockout mak the penalti for exceedg the salary p far more punive, and the system begs earnt next season.

Calron and Davis had both been startg for the Raptors, but they do have Kyle Lowry wag the wgs at pot guard and likely see Gay's srg punch as the key to vltg back to the discsn a medcre Dwane Casey will have to al wh a b of a log jam wh Gay, DeMar DeRozan, Terrence Ross, Landry Fields and Alan Anrson as wg players wh siar skill gettg a player wh Gay's natural srg talent, even at the expense of partg wh a valued player like Calron, proved too enticg to pass up. As wh any al the new fislly-nsc NBA, the Rudy Gay tra volvg the Grizzli, Raptors and Pistons n be analyzed om many different angl. Some might lament the three-team al that sent Gay to the Raptors, Tayshn Prce and Ed Davis to the Grizzli and Jose Calron to the Pistons bee the bt team volved trad s leadg srer for fancial reasons.

GRA THE TRA: RAPTORS LAND THEIR ANCHISE RNERSTONE 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. * rudy gay trade memphis *

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RUDY GAY EXPECTED TO DRAW TERT OM WARRRS, LAKERS, MAVERICKS, BULLS, PELINS

The Memphis Grizzli ntue to field lls om teams terted Rudy Gay and are engaged active tra discsns wh the Toronto Raptors, sourc wh knowledge of the talks told * rudy gay trade memphis *

As has been mentned before this space, was always a matter of when, not if, the Grizzli would tra Gay, even after a recent tra of Marree Speights and Wayne Ellgton got Memphis unr the luxury-tax thrhold for this year. The Grizzli therefore had only one choice to make: tra Gay now, or tra Gay the offseason. Spacg has been a major issue, thanks large part to Gay's awkward f wh Marc Gasol and Zach Randolph.

This is the perd of the game where you'd thk Gay's shot-creatn skills would be most valuable. Holls was very close wh Gay, so gettg back a name like Prce will at least appease him. That's good for Memphis, bee the last thg they need is a worse versn of Gay.

SOURC: RAPTORS VET RUDY GAY

Gay shot only 31 percent on three-poters this year, and that shortg allowed his fenr to cheat off him to help on Randolph and Gasol the post.

Throw Prce's obv fensive strengths -- he's regrsed sce his glory days of 2004, but he's still at least as good as Gay -- and the Grizzli have clarified their offensive peckg orr while matag or even enhancg their stiflg fense. Holls was vol his support for Gay, and the players all liked him too.

They got a battle-tted, role-playg small forward that n approximate a lot of Gay's skills and f wh the team's post players. Gay has cled this year -- his srg is down and his PER is jt 14. A change of scenery should bump Gay's numbers back up to where they ed to be.

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The Raptors will pay a bed $50 ln next season to Gay, Andrea Bargnani, DeMar DeRozan, Amir Johnson and Landry Fields next year. RAPTORS HQ: Not jt about talentMORE: One Raptors' fan Rudy Gay nightmare. The biggt issue: 's gog to be awfully difficult to divi wg touch between Gay and DeRozan.

RUDY GAY TO KGS 7-PLAYER AL

Gay has sred on jt 32 percent of his spot-up opportuni and is htg jt 27 percent of his thre the spots. The one thg that uld salvage all of this: movg Gay to power forward. I know 's pretty drastic, but Gay has thrived at the posn ternatnal play and is certaly jt as big as many stretch 4s.

Better yet, movg Gay to power forward would ee up mut for Ross, who has e on recently. A lp of Lowry, DeRozan, Ross, Gay and a healthy Valanciunas would be very difficult to fend.

The Memphis Grizzli have trad forward Rudy Gay to the Toronto Grizzli receive pot guard Jose Calron as part of the al, and routed Calron's $10. In Prce, the Grizzli get a rpected, if not agg, small forward who'll give them nsirable savgs over the $37 ln owed Gay the next two seasons. Gradg the rults of the tra of Rudy Gay to Toronto, Ed Davis, Tayshn Prce, and At Daye to Memphis, and Jose Calron to Detro.

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