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Rudy Gay: When I went to San Antonio, I agreed to be a part of something bigger than me. You know what I mean? Tony Allen: As a journeyman, you've got to figure out like, 'How do I adapt?' Was that a hard process and understanding what trade and the business is about? Rudy Gay: Yes, it was. It was because you go from like 20 playing points a game to coming off the bench, it's like... It's different, and it's a fight with what you've got to have with yourself, but at the end of the day, it's like a vision that somebody else had for you. So it's not something that you have a plan for yourself. It's like a plan that's bigger than you. So you have to just fall into line. Now, every time it might not be true every time. It might not be right. But the business is that there are people above you. You could be replaced. So you have to find your spot. And that was the first time I went to San Antonio that I had to find my spot and to find out how I can be productive in that spot.
NBA TV will have 60 regular season games, beginning Oct. 25 when the defending NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder visits the Atlanta Hawks, as well as games from the WNBA and the NBA’s development league The G League. There will also be a new flagship show called The Association, featuring hosts and contributors like MJ Acosta-Ruiz, David Fizdale, Rudy Gay, Chris Haynes and John Wall, among others. The Association effectively replaces NBA Gametime Live, which had been the flagship show produced by TNT Sports for the channel.
Dwyane Wade: I’ve never been on the top of no list of no that's not something I'm shooting for. I've never been that way. So I was always I wanted to see how it felt to be a winner, how to be a champion. And so I had to learn all these things that people who are not champions do not understand about winning championships. Like I had to my guy Rudy Gay. Shout out to Rudy Gay. Love Rudy. Rudy says some bullsh*t. Q. What'd he say? Wade: Rudy said that in 2013 that they would have beat us if they would have met us in the in the in the finals. I think that's the year that he goes. I think he said he end up getting traded. Q. Was that the year you beat San Antonio? Was that the year you beat? Wade: Yes. The year we beat San Antonio. So anyway, so maybe they beat us in the regular season. I don't remember. So I DM it to Rudy. ‘Hey Rudy, this must be an AI generated quote cuz it ain't nowhere in hell you said this’. So he hit me back and you know he like, ‘Yeah, you know me. I said it. you know, you got to have confidence.’ I said, ‘Boy, belt the ass.’ So, left it at that. Then I seen him at Melo at the after party. I said, ‘Hey, man.’ I said, ‘Man, what's wrong with you? You're not just going to win the finals because you think you want to win the finals, bro. We would have belted… We had just been in the finals four years in a row. We smacking y'all. You don't know how to win in the finals, bro.’
Prime Video today announced that Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall-of-Famer Swin Cash, former NBA players Rudy Gay and Jim Jackson, and broadcast journalist JayDee Dyer will join the lineup for the inaugural season of NBA on Prime. Cash will serve as a contributor and insider for the studio show providing NBA front office perspective. Gay will also make select in-studio appearances as an analyst. Jackson and Dyer will lend their expertise to the game broadcast as an analyst and sideline reporter, respectively.
Carmelo Anthony on team bonding at strip clubs: I'm glad that you (Rudy Gay) able to tell this story about Magic City in a sense, but we utilize those moments to go to places like that. And it was very respectful though. It was it was times where we would go and be like, "Yo, we don't want no girls." Like there's no girls around us. Like we coming to here, we chilling. We bonding. We got to get our mind right. We going to come and eat. We going to have a good team outing. No girls. Leave it alone. Rudy Gay: You might lose two or three games in a row, then you say ‘all right, we going to Magic City’. We all going to get together and no girls. We just going to laugh, chill, have a drink, eat, whatever. Carmelo Anthony: Everybody thinks that you are going there to get lap dances. You going there for the bullsh*t… No, you're not going there for the bullsh*t. You really going there to clear your mind. You go there to just relax and clear your mind. You might have a drink, might have some food. Most strip clubs got the best food, especially the wings.
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DeMar DeRozan on when he was traded: I get traded from Toronto in the middle of the night. I'm sick. I'm hot. I'm walking down the street. I'm sitting in a fast food parking lot, right? I called two people. First person I called to tell was Kyle Lowry, right? Second, I called this motherf*cker right? [Rudy Gay]. I said, "Yeah, bro. These people just trading me." And he's laughing on the phone. I'm like, "What the f*ck man?" Rudy Gay: After that he told me he was being traded toSan Antonio I laughed again. DeRozan: Yeah, he laughed twice. So he laughed at me twice. The second laugh I hung up on his ass.
The inconveniences of playing in Canada have been echoed publicly by ex-Raptors Lou Williams and Rudy Gay. But is the issue more widespread? Temple, who’s also the vice president of NBA players’ association, acknowledged he’s heard the complaints from other players and the union has raised it with relevant authorities within the league. If there’s a way to make the process a little more seamless, they will try to make it happen. “Let’s be clear: it’s the U.S. (customs) that’s making it take long, it’s not Canadian borders,” he said. “But in the grand scheme of things, it’s nothing to deter somebody from coming here.”
Tom Orsborn: Pop placed a phone call to Rudy Gay on Tuesday after he announced his retirement after 17 seasons, including 4 w/ Spurs. "He's a sweet man and had a good long career," Pop said. "Great teammate. Everybody loved him. Always had a smile, great sense of humor. He was a good pro."
From there, it was years of learning from some of the best. There were so many players who were kind enough to pass along some of their expertise. Way too many to name. But I’ll always be grateful to Mike Miller for showing me how to put in work. How to hone your craft through consistent and focused training. Mike was a maniac with that stuff, and if you were around him enough you couldn’t help but to have it rub off. Patty Mills and Manu Ginobili were two other guys I absolutely loved. They’re both tireless competitors, and Patty is literally the most optimistic, positive person I’ve ever met. Darrell Arthur, too, another Memphis guy. Did all the little things, the dirty work. He had a huge impact on me. Then there’s Chris Paul, my friend and also one of the most competitive people I have ever met. I remember us not talking for years over a playoff series! And Kyle Lowry. Kyle is one of my best friends in the entire world, going all the way back to middle school. So, it was awesome to be able to suit up and play in NBA games with Kyle.
But actually coming to grips with it being over, that’s … a process. One I’m honestly still dealing with, and struggle with at times. I’ll still be watching games and see some of these guys missing a pass or fumbling the ball out of bounds, and I absolutely am that dude yelling at the TV like: “I’m better than that clown. Are you kidding me?!?!?” It’s not pretty. But, at the same time, look…. I’m 38 years old. That’s nowhere even near mid-career for most people’s professional lives. So, the way I see it, I’ve got a lot of work ahead of me. I just need to figure out what exactly that means. Maybe it’s public speaking, or media, or business. We’re gonna see. I have a contracting company, a real estate company. I have the PickUp USA Fitness gym in Towson, Maryland. There are a bunch of things I’ve already begun devoting some time to. Now it’s just a matter of finding one big new thing that I love, and then throwing my energy into it.
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So, play continues, but at the other end someone knocks the ball out of bounds or something, and there’s a stoppage. I walk over to Kobe like, “Kob! Kob? You alright?” Nothing. He’s just swaying back and forth now. It’s crazy. Just swaying in place. Eyes looking off in the distance somewhere. Next possession, we’re on offense again, and there’s a foul. OK, enough! I’m standing right next to him at the foul line. Like, I gotta see if Kobe can hear! “Kob. Kob! Kob!!! Are you OK, man?” A second passes. Then another. Then…. He turns his head in my direction. And he looks at me. Blank stare. “Kob, I know I got you with the shoulder a little bit. Are you OK?” A few more seconds pass. Like awkward, awkward seconds. Then he looks straight into my soul with those eyes of his, and, real slow and pronounced, he says…. “Don’t you ever …………….. ask me ……….. am I OK.” It was the coldest cold-blooded thing ever.
And then…. He didn’t say another word. We just went back to the game. It was the middle of the third quarter or so. And, as you can probably guess, Kobe roasted us after that. Dude scored 24 points after it happened. He hit three threes in the final two minutes of the game to send it to overtime. And then, in OT, of course…. The Lakers got the win. An hour later, he’s on SportsCenter or whatever, and they’re asking him about all those points he scored at the end, and he’s literally like, “Yeah … I mean … Rudy Gay asked me if I was OK. So……..” Then he smiles this sly little smile. I’m just shaking my head watching that like: You know what … in retrospect … maybe I shouldn’t have asked him if he was OK. Lesson learned. Kobe taught me all about focus that day. About how, even though they call it a game, hoops isn’t really “a game” if you’re trying to be the best player in the world.
Shams Charania: After 17 NBA seasons, Rudy Gay is retiring. Gay, the No. 8 pick in the 2006 Draft out of UConn, averaged 15.8 points and 5.6 rebounds across 1,120 career games for the Grizzlies, Raptors, Kings, Spurs and Jazz.
"LeBron James and Bronny James have been the talk of the town. Why is nepotism such a big deal when LeBron made sure that his son was drafted? RUDY GAY: I don’t know, man. I’ve talked to a lot of people about it, and I see no problem with it. I mean, who wouldn’t want to help their kids out? If that’s the case, I think he’ll be a good pro. I think he’s going to have a good career, but you know, everybody needs a push every now and then."