His shots per game are down by three ticks, as compared with his lone month with the Raptors earlier this year, but he’s scoring two more points per contest. The problem here is Rudy has been fantastic as a member of the Kings. Rudy’s always been thought of as a good dude, but even the most hardened of anti-advanced statistics bloviators had come around on Gay as a low-efficiency scorer and little else.
There have been several instances in NBA history where players trade in the chance for a massive one-year pay day in order to sign into a more secure, longer-term deal, and Gay’s image when he was dealt from the Toronto Raptors to the Sacramento Kings was at an all-time low. The idea Rudy Gay will opt out this summer of the last year of his contract, one that pays him an amount ($19.3 million for 2014-15) most in the NBA would conclude is too much for what he provides, seemed reasonable enough for a little while.
