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| 22 - Rudy Gay
- SF, 6'8, 230 |
| Memphis Grizzlies
- Picked 8th in 2006, acquired in trade in July 2006 |
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Date of
birth: 08/17/1986
Country:
USA
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Drafted
(NBA): 8th pick, 2006
Out of: Connecticut
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NBA
Experience: 6 years
Hand: Right |
| Agent: Lance Young/Jeff Austin (Octagon)
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| When: |
Where: |
| 2004 - 2006 |
Connecticut (NCAA) |
| June 2006 - July 2006 |
Houston Rockets (NBA) |
| July 2006 - present |
Memphis Grizzlies (NBA) |
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League
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Transaction
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2006 NBA Draft
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NBA
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Drafted 8th overall by Houston.
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12th July, 2006
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NBA
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Draft rights traded by Houston, along with Stromile Swift, to Memphis in exchange for Shane Battier.
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12th July, 2006
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NBA
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Signed four year, $10,514,477 rookie contract with Memphis. Included team options for 2008/09 and 2009/10.
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25th October, 2007
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NBA
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Memphis exercised 2008/09 team option.
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31st October, 2008
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NBA
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Memphis exercised 2009/10 team option.
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8th July, 2010
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NBA
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Re-signed by Memphis to a five year, $82,302,690 contract. Included player option for 2014/15.
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 Creative Financing in the NBA, 2010
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| 2010-08-12 |
In this current economic climate, NBA franchises are imploring to us that they're losing too much money and need to redraft the entire collective bargaining agreement, while also continuing to throw the gross national product of Micronesia at a whole host of players that don't deserve it. (Memphis are as guilty of this as anyone, with their wildly excessive max contract to Rudy Gay.) While complaining with one arse that their expenditure outweighs their income, owners are using their second arse to wildly overpay the underdeserving, greatly increasing that expenditure level while under pressure from nothing but their own aspirations. We're looking at an impending lockout a mere 11 months after learning that Johan Petro got an 8 figure contract. Joe Johnson got the fifth highest contract in the history of the sport. Rudy Gay got the max. Chewbacca lives on Endor. It does not make sense.
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NBA Free Agency Movement, Part 1
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| 2010-07-02 |
The first really really really really ridiculously big contract of the offseason so far belongs not to LeBron James or Steve Novak, but to Memphis forward Rudy Gay. Reportedly, the team intend to re-sign him to a four year maximum salary contract, with a fifth player option/ETO year at the end.
Gay is a restricted free agent, who was no serious threat to accept his qualifying offer. This is partly because it was small ($4,422,784), partly because of the very real threat of a far less player-friendly CBA coming into force next summer, and partly because this is the summer where everyone is willing and able to spend. Memphis could have played the long game, waited it out, maade a fair offer to Rudy (i.e. about $11 million a year) and let the market dictate his ultimate value. Matching rights were their friend. However, they've not done that, jumping out early and wildly overpaying a second stringer to a maximum salary contract. Has that ever worked well, ever? It has not.
Memphis's supposed logic behind the move is to avoid having a team sign Gay to a frontloaded contract which they will not be able to afford next season (20% of the money of any non-minimum salary contract can be paid up front, which is what Portland tried to do to Utah with the Paul Millsap deal. Yet their way to offset that risk seems to have been to pay him a deal that they can't afford in any year. That logic is entirely counter-intuitive, and will sting the team for a while. It was a never a case of max-him-or-lose-him, yet the Grizzlies seem to have treated it as such.
At times like this, you wish you had that 2011 first rounder you traded for Ronnie Brewer, whom you are now letting walk as an unrestricted free agent. But sadly not.
(Note: Seemingly involved in everything, Minnesota were said to have targeted Gay this summer, apparently unaware that they just drafted three small forwards, traded for Martell Webster and already have Corey Brewer. Despite the bad fit, I was all for the move, as it would have meant a trio of Gay-Love-Sessions in Minnesota. Alas, it is not to be.)
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2010 Free Agency, Preliminary Round
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| 2010-07-01 |
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Sham's 2010 NBA Draft Night Recap, Part 1
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| 2010-06-27 |
Stu Scott openly speculates "guess Rudy Gay's not going back", but I'd rather believe that he is, and that Henry will slide in next to him at two guard. If it does not happen, however, Henry and Sam Young will be a reasonably effective small forward combination. But if it does not happen, Memphis will soon be back in the high lottery.
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Memphis Grizzlies
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