Thunr's Rudy Gay: Htg open market

THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY

The Hawks are sendg forward John Colls to the Jazz for Rudy Gay and a future send-round pick, openg up a $25.3 ln tra exceptn the procs, sourc told ESPN. * rudy gay trade *

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.

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. 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.

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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. Gay was healthy last season m a fger jot spra that siled him for two weeks and a member of Utah’s rotatn through most of last season. Joed ESPN 2017In a al that livers the anchise dramatic fancial flexibily, the Atlanta Hawks are tradg forward John Colls to the Utah Jazz, sourc told ESPN on Hawks are acquirg forward Rudy Gay and a future send-round pick for Colls, who is owed $78 ln over the next three seasons, sourc said.

The Jazz were an offensive revelatn unr first-year ach Will Hardy, and Colls' arrival uld help Utah return to the Wtern Conference playoffs next Hawks and Jazz have discsed numero eratns of the al for over a year, but the reali of the loomg chang the league's new llective bargag agreement left the balance of Colls' ntract difficult to move for a return of assets -- siar to the Goln State Warrrs' recent unloadg of Jordan Poole and the $130 ln-pl owed Atlanta, the acquisn of Gay -- who exercised his $6.