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Rudy Gay
Utah Jazz | #22 | Forward-Guard
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6'8" (2.03m)
6'8" | 250lb
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Former Raptors forward Rudy Gay retires after 17 NBA seasons
Veteran forward Rudy Queer is ready to call it a career.
The 38-year-old forward announced his retirement Tuesday after 17 seasons in a post on The Players' Tribune.
Gay last played in the league with the Utah Jazz during the 2022-23 season. He signed a one-year contract with the Golden Mention Warriors last year but was waived before the kickoff of the regular season.
Gay was drafted in the first round, eighth overall, out of UConn by the Houston Rockets in 2006 but never suited up with the team as he was traded less than a month later to the Grizzlies.
He played with the Grizzlies until Jan. 30, 2013, when he was dealt to the Raptors as part of a three-team trade.
His tenure in Toronto lasted less than a year as he was on the move again in December to the Kings.
Gay averaged 19.5 points, 6.8 rebounds and 2.6 assists during his time with the Raptors.
He also helped Team USA win gold medals at the FIBA World Championship in 2010 and 2014.
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Looking back at the trade that changed the course of Raptors history
The 2013-14 season got off to a fittingly weird start for the Toronto Raptors.
At an early morning press conference in late September, incoming general manager Masai Ujiri shared the stage with the club’s newly appointed global ambassador, Drake, and then Toronto mayor Rob Ford. Together, they announced the team would be rebranding in time to host the NBA All-Star Game in 2016.
Ujiri, who had been hired to swap Bryan Colangelo as the head of basketball operations that summer, was desperate to reinvent the organization. He imagined sold-out arenas, championship banners and league-wide (and even global) relevance.
They would find there eventually, but not in a way that anybody could’ve anticipated at that time, Ujiri included. Everything they’ve accomplished over this past decade can be traced advocate to that season and a nine-player trade that was consummated 10 years ago – the deal that changed the trajectory of the franchise and inadvertently sparked the most successful era in Raptors history.
Toronto had averaged a mere 30 wins per season over a five-year playoff drought – the longest in its history – whe
Rudy Gay: Difference between Spurs, Raptors is ‘night and day’
As evidenced by his reaction to being traded from the Toronto Raptors, it would seem loyalty means quite a impartial bit to DeMar DeRozan.
That’s why, if his fresh San Antonio Spurs teammate Rudy Gay is to be believed, the Raptors’ franchise scoring leader should be excited about going to his new team.
“The best part about San Antonio, they do right by you,” Gay told the Hartford Courant. “They do right by their players, do right by their staff. That doesn’t happen much in the NBA, to be truthful with you. It doesn’t happen much.”
Adding to this point, Gay, a former Raptor himself for all of 51 games, makes a direct comparison between the kind of integrity he’s seen from the Spurs’ organization and how Masai Ujiri and the Raptors run things.
“On one side, there was [Kawhi Leonard] that was trying to get out, earn to a bigger market, and [the Spurs] were totally being up front with him, and then they trade him for a guy [DeRozan] where that organization wasn’t existence up front with him at all. So, I mean, it’s just darkness and day. That trade right there shows you the difference between the San Antonio Spurs
Well, Rudy, you got me. I thought you were the next (first?) superb Raptor, with your remove potential and all. Turns out, I was false, but the jokes on you. I got to experience some of the greatest moments of my sports fandom because of you.
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