Rudy Gay

Rudy Carlton Gay, Jr. ( born August 17, 1986 in Baltimore, Maryland ) is an American professional basketball player. Since 2013 he has been active in the American professional league NBA for the Sacramento Kings.

High school and college career

In his youth, Gay first played at Eastern Technical High School in Baltimore for two years until he moved in the summer of 2002 because of his talent to the ambitious Arch Bishop Spalding High School, where he again spent two years. When he left high school, he was known as one of the best players in his class and received a number of awards and prizes. Among other things, he was elected team in the McDonald 's All- American, which is composed of the best high school players all over the United States.

Then Rudy Gay received a scholarship from the University of Connecticut, one of the best basketball universities in North America. In his second year of college, which he played with great success, to him the honor of a nomination for the best college players in the USA part was. This season he led his college team, the UConn Huskies, with 15.2 points per game to a 30-3 balance sheet, until they lost in extra time against the surprise team of the George Mason Patriots from Virginia 84:86. Despite the disappointing end of his second college year, Rudy Gay decided to leave the college and to register for the NBA Draft.

NBA career

The Houston Rockets selected in the 2006 NBA Draft the highly traded Rudy Gay as 8 pick, and then even to trade him in the same night along with Stromile Swift for the established Shane Battier to the Memphis Grizzlies.

In his first NBA year managed to shine Gay already a few times and counted with an average of 10.8 points and 4.5 rebounds not only the best players of his team, but also to the best rookies in the NBA. He was appointed to the NBA All - Rookie First Team. However, not only by strong performances he drew attention to himself, Rudy made ​​especially with its very spectacular dunks quite a stir.

On January 30, 2013 Gay was part of a three- team exchange, transferred to the Toronto Raptors. In return, among other things, José Calderón changed to the Detroit Pistons and Tayshaun Prince to the Memphis Grizzlies.

For the Raptors, however, Gay ran only until November 2013. In early December he was transferred from Toronto Raptors to the Sacramento Kings. In this trade, in addition to Gay Center and Aaron Gray and forward Quincy Acy was performed to Sacramento. The Raptors got in return Greivis Vasquez, John Salmons, Patrick Patterson and Chuck Hayes. Previously Gay was 2013/2014 the team captain of the Raptors for the first games of the season.

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