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Rudy Gay Retires After 17 Seasons

Discussion in 'NBA Dish' started by Mr. Dominant, Oct 29, 2024 at 11:37 AM.

  1. Mr. Dominant

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    You should have posted that in the GARM as Rockets legend Rudy Gay....drafted by the Rockets.

    And swapped for Shane Battier.

     
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  3. Mr. Dominant

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    Touche…
     
  4. napalm06

    napalm06 Huge Flopping Fan

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    That's pretty impressive longevity considering he was never a marquee piece of the teams he was on. He had an enigmatic career.
     
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    Good job morley
     
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    F%%KIN Rudy Gay, Man.
     
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    This guy fooled a lot of people for a long time.
     
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    He played a very long time and made a huge amount of money.
     
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    17 season,3 times played in the playoffs (2 with the never miss Spurs) and not a single series win. One playoff game for every 59 regular season games is an impressively terrible ratio.

    GOAT all time empty calorie player. Put up digits on a lot of mid to outright bad team. Memphis and Toronto got noticeably better by dumping him.
     
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    Well you know what they say….that’s Gay!
     
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    I wanted to see him next to Grady from Toronto one last time.
     
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    Rockets almost had a

    Gay-Head backcourt.
     
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    I remember when the Rockets drafted the guy...I was actually looking forward to it, but then immediately swapped for Battier.
     
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    Yeah, I understand people dogging him on his way out, but you have to appreciate keeping your body more or less NBA-compliant for nearly 2 decades. He got playing time b/c he could play -- maybe not excel, and definitely not a champion or anything, but he won playing time over a ton of other players.
     
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    He was pretty hetero.

     
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    He gave his teams fans low cost entertainment with the last name lineups
     
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    We never got to see the gay dick combo and I'll forever feel upset about it.
     
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    with John Amaechi at center...
     
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    They could've picked up Josh Primo for an extra adjective.
     

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