<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/michael-porter-jr-jabari-smith-jr-called-out-by-carmelo-anthony-rudy-gay');   ga('set', 'title', 'Michael Porter Jr., Jabari Smith Jr. hilariously called out by Carmelo Anthony, Rudy Gay');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Michael-Porter-Jr.-Jabari-Smith-Jr.-hilariously-called-out-by-Carmelo-Anthony-Rudy-Gay.jpg"></figure><h1>Michael Porter Jr., Jabari Smith Jr. hilariously called out by Carmelo Anthony, Rudy Gay</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-11-13T16:28:04-08:00">November 13th, 4:28pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-11-13T16:28:04-08:00">November 13th, 4:28pm</time><address><a>Christopher Smith</a>Christopher Smith is an associate editor covering a variety of sports with a beat focus on the Chicago Sky for ClutchPoints. The Aurora, Illinois native earned a degree in philosophy from Creighton University, where he also competed as a Division 1 Cross Country runner.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The 2024-25 season is back in full swing, and the league’s young players are continuing to make promising improvements. <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nuggets-news-michael-porter-jr-new-body-transformation-training-camp">Denver Nuggets forward Michael Porter Jr.</a> and <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba-finals-news-rockets-jabari-smith-jr-reveals-goal-after-attending-mavs-celtics-game-1">Houston Rockets big man Jabari Smith Jr.</a> are on a mission to help their teams climb the Western Conference. However, the two stars were comically called out by Carmelo Anthony and Rudy Gay during a podcast appearance in mid-November.</p><p>Anthony and Gay <a href="https://x.com/7PMinBrooklyn/status/1856809675855204864" rel="noopener">reminisced on times</a> when younger players figuratively called them old, with Gay sharing his Jabari Smith Jr. story first:</p><p>“We played Houston, Jabari Smith. He had just got there. He checked in. It’s the fourth quarter. He was like, “I thought you would try to come at me. I used to watch you growing up. I’m like d***… I’m like, this ain’t 2010,” Gay told Anthony before erupting in laughter on an episode of 7 PM in Brooklyn.</p><p>If Rudy Gay’s story is not interesting enough, Anthony’s will get fans laughing even harder.</p><h2><b>Carmelo Anthony had to educate Michael Porter Jr. </b></h2><p>“The worst is, ‘Yo I ain’t know you still had that’… We playing Denver. This is the first I’ve played them in a long time. Go back. Michael Porter is guarding me. I catch him on like the right elbow and just catch it, post, quick jab, go left, and lay it up. He like, ‘D*** unc, I ain’t know you still had that,” Anthony shared with the group.</p><p>At 26, Michael Porter Jr. is older than 21-year-old Jabari Smith Jr., so the Nuggets forward should have known that Carmelo Anthony did in fact still have one of his signature offensive skills. Nevertheless, both young players were happy to be able to guard two of the most impactful scorers in the mid-2000s era of the NBA.</p><p>The league continues to gain an influx of talent every year. All young players will eventually become veterans, but as illustrated in this comical story, skills can be admired for a long time.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Michael Porter Jr., Jabari Smith Jr. hilariously called out by Carmelo Anthony, Rudy Gay

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/nba-news-rudy-gay-calls-career-after-17-seasons-with-emotional-thank-you');   ga('set', 'title', 'NBA news: Rudy Gay calls it a career after 17 seasons with emotional thank you');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Rudy-Gay-calls-it-a-career-after-17-seasons-with-emotional-thank-you_75f8d7.jpg"></figure><h1>NBA news: Rudy Gay calls it a career after 17 seasons with emotional thank you</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-10-29T08:49:39-07:00">October 29th, 8:49am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-10-29T09:24:01-07:00">October 29th, 9:24am</time><address><a>Joshua Valdez</a>Joshua Valdez started his journalism career as the Sports Editor for the Rutgers University newspaper before becoming an associate editor and Washington Wizards/Mystics reporter for ClutchPoints. He is a diehard Yankees, Jets, Knicks, Rutgers, and Tottenham Hotspur fan. When Joshua is not either watching a game or writing about one, you can find him in an art-house movie theater or working on a screenplay.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Rudy<a href="https://clutchpoints.com/warriors-make-major-rudy-gay-decision-after-preseason-finale-but-theres-a-catch"> Gay’s NBA career</a> may not have gone exactly the way he wanted, but it was still successful, all things considered. It’s officially in the past, though, as the 38-year-old is walking away from the game.</p><p>Gay is <a href="https://x.com/ShamsCharania/status/1851277831956738099" rel="noopener">retiring after 17 seasons</a>, via ESPN’s Shams Charania.</p><p>“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 [Memphis] Grizzlies, [Toronto] Raptors, [Sacramento] Kings, [San Antonio] Spurs and [Utah] Jazz,” Charania said.</p><p>Gay was drafted eighth overall by the Houston Rockets out of UConn after a standout collegiate career that included consensus second-team All-American honors in 2006. The Rockets traded the Maryland native to Memphis, where he played until 2013. He won NBA All-Rookie First Team honors in 2007.</p><h2><b>Rudy Gay’s NBA career wasn’t perfect, but he’s grateful</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Former-NBA-forward-Rudy-Gay.jpg"><figcaption>© Petre Thomas-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>Gay opened up <a href="https://www.theplayerstribune.com/rudy-gay-nba-basketball-retirement-announcement" rel="noopener">about the trials and tribulations</a> of his NBA journey, via The Players’ Tribune.</p><p>“My story, it’s not some fairy tale. In the end, I guess I would say it was … complicated. Just in terms of how it all worked out. The injuries sucked, for sure,” he said. And, for whatever reason, there were a number of times when I ended up with teams in the middle of situations that were just not ideal, or teams dealing with some sort of internal turmoil.”</p><p><a href="https://clutchpoints.com/rudy-gays-return-to-relevance-comes-off-the-beaten-path">Gay never played on championship-contending</a> squads, as he finished with a career 7-12 playoff record. However, the two-time FIBA World Cup gold medalist had plenty of individual success, setting the Grizzlies’ franchise record for most single-season points (1,632) and highest scoring average (20.1 points) in 2007-08. The injury bug bit him at inopportune times, though, such as when he missed the entire 2011 playoffs after a career year.</p><p>“In those moments, of course it was difficult. And at times it almost felt like it was becoming too much,” Gay admitted. “But at this point? At the end of the line? I can’t be upset about those things forever, you know what I mean? Spend the rest of my life thinking about what-ifs? Be all pissed off and bitter and grumpy? Like, be that guy? No thanks.”</p><p>At the end of the day, Gay lived a dream that only a minuscule percentage of hoopers worldwide have achieved. Why lament over it?</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

NBA news: Rudy Gay calls it a career after 17 seasons with emotional thank you

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/nba-news-rudy-gay-reveals-hilarious-reason-carmelo-anthony-chose-syracuse');   ga('set', 'title', 'NBA’s Rudy Gay reveals hilarious reason why Carmelo Anthony chose Syracuse');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/7359968911.jpg"></figure><h1>NBA’s Rudy Gay reveals hilarious reason why Carmelo Anthony chose Syracuse</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-05-03T14:11:36-07:00">May 3rd, 2:11pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-05-03T14:25:10-07:00">May 3rd, 2:25pm</time><address><a>Joshua Valdez</a>Joshua Valdez started his journalism career as the Sports Editor for the Rutgers University newspaper before becoming an associate editor for ClutchPoints. He is a diehard Yankees, Jets, Knicks, Rutgers, and Tottenham Hotspur fan. When Joshua is not either watching a game or writing about one, you can find him in an art-house movie theater or working on a screenplay.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Carmelo Anthony etched his name into Syracuse basketball history when he led the program to a National Title during the 2002-03 campaign. However, fans may not know what led the 10-time NBA All-Star <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/syracuse-basketball-news-carmelo-anthony-pens-touching-message-after-jim-boeheim-retires">to play for the Orange</a> in the first place.</p><p>NBA veteran Rudy Gay revealed that Anthony may have joined Jim Boeheim’s squad because he knew he wouldn’t <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tboarBZlCEE&amp;t=1259s" rel="noopener">have to play much defense</a>, via Anthony’s <i>7 PM In Brooklyn</i> podcast.</p><figure class="op-interactive"></figure><p>“We’ve got a mutual friend between our age, that I played AAU with, Draper, and I don’t think he ever told you but I used to pick his brain all the time,” Gay said. “Where’s Melo going, what’s he working on man. For real what school’s he going to? He was like, he’s going to Syracuse, and I was like why is he going there? He says, they play zone, he don’t got to play no defense. Swear to God.”</p><p>While this may initially sound like no more than friendly teasing, the story does check out. Anthony was never known for his defense, as he primarily focused on scoring and individual shot creation, which he did in spades at Syracuse. The two-time USA Male Basketball Athlete of the Year averaged <a href="https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/carmelo-anthony-1.html" rel="noopener">22.2 points per game</a> with the team, via Sports Reference.</p><p>The question is, though, how was Gay able to obtain such personal information about Anthony’s decision-making?</p><h2><b>Rudy Gay and Carmelo Anthony’s lives were intertwined before the NBA</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Former-NBA-player-Carmelo-Anthony.jpg"><figcaption>© Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports</figcaption></figure><p>Many fans may not know that Gay and Anthony grew up together in Baltimore. Gay explained on the show that he first met Anthony when he was a freshman in high school.</p><p>“We was at like, them camps,” Gay explained. “You know how we used to have them pop-up camps? So, I get invited. They’re like, ‘Melo gonna be there.’ I’m like, ‘alright, whatever.’ So I meet him, and I was younger…So he playin’, and they told me ‘go get him, go get Melo.’ Melo looked at me and said ‘what? I ain’t coming out.’ So I told myself, in my mind, that I’ma get good enough so he can’t sub me out.”</p><p>Anthony attended Towson Catholic High School before transferring to Oak Hill Academy in Virginia. Gay attended Eastern Technical and Archbishop Spalding High Schools, both in Maryland. Anthony was two years ahead of Gay, but both were top-five recruits in their respective recruiting classes as well as McDonald’s All-American’s.</p><p>Gay admitted that he didn’t want to play defense back then, either, which is why he also considered Syracuse.</p><p>“That’s what he (Draper) told me,” Gay continued. “So I’m like okay cool, cool. So I’m thinking the whole time, I ain’t trying to play no defense neither. But it was between Syracuse, UConn, and Villanova.”</p><p>Gay ended up with the Huskies, where he garnered Big East Rookie of the Year honors. However, it’s still funny that both him and Anthony’s college decisions partially centered around not having to play defense. This story is yet another reminder that while defense wins championships, elite scoring can give some players a pass in that regard.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

NBA’s Rudy Gay reveals hilarious reason why Carmelo Anthony chose Syracuse

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/warriors-make-major-rudy-gay-decision-after-preseason-finale-but-theres-a-catch');   ga('set', 'title', 'Warriors make major Rudy Gay decision after preseason finale, but there’s a catch');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Warriors-news-Golden-State-makes-major-Rudy-Gay-decision-after-preseason-finale-but-there_s-a-catch.jpg"></figure><h1>Warriors make major Rudy Gay decision after preseason finale, but there’s a catch</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2023-10-20T22:47:38-07:00">October 20th, 10:47pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2023-10-21T08:56:27-07:00">October 21st, 8:56am</time><address><a>Jack Winter</a>Jack Winter is a veteran NBA writer and editor based on the West Coast. He currently lives in Oakland, covering the last legs of the Golden State Warriors' dynasty.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Rudy Gay won’t be with the Golden State Warriors for the start of the regular season. Neither will fellow veteran Rodney McGruder. Despite <a href="https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1715598394859585929" rel="noopener">being waived</a> at the conclusion of the preseason, though, both players could reportedly make it back to the Warriors once 2023-24 officially gets underway,.</p><p>Golden State released Gay and McGruder on Friday night following a loss to Victor <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/spurs-news-victor-wembanyama-full-video-game-on-stephen-curry-warriors-with-mind-blowing-1q" rel="noopener">Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs</a> in the preseason finale, according to Shams Charania and Anthony Slater of The Athletic. Gay didn’t play in the game, while McGruder matched Stephen Curry and Cory Joseph for the team lead with 20 minutes played.</p><h2><b>Warriors preparing for 2023-24 season</b></h2><p>The Dubs will now enter the regular season with just 13 players on the roster. League rules limit the amount of time a team can have fewer than 14 players on its roster to 28 total days or two consecutive weeks. Golden State will have to sign another player soon, basically, and The Athletic reports both Gay and McGruder are <a href="https://twitter.com/anthonyVslater/status/1715598798301679851" rel="noopener">candidates to fill that slot</a>. The team will likely roster 14 players for the season’s majority to cut into owner Joe Lacob’s massive luxury-tax bill.</p><p><a href="https://clutchpoints.com/warriors-news-rudy-gay-one-year-contract" rel="noopener">Gay joined the Dubs</a> as a training camp invite in late September. He spent last season with the Utah Jazz, playing a career-low 14.6 minutes per game while reinventing himself as a veteran mentor of sorts. The 36-year-old and 2006 draftee would be the eighth-oldest player in the league this season if he re-signs with the Warriors or finds another NBA home.</p><p>McGruder, 32, was also <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/warriors-news-rodney-mcgruder-training-camp-contract" rel="noopener">brought in by Golden State</a> for training camp late last month. He played for the Detroit Pistons in 2022-23, appearing in 32 games off the bench.</p><p>The Warriors open the regular season on Tuesday at Chase Center against Kevin Durant, Devin Booker, Bradley Beal and the revamped Phoenix Suns.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Warriors make major Rudy Gay decision after preseason finale, but there’s a catch

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/warriors-news-rudy-gay-one-year-contract');   ga('set', 'title', 'Rudy Gay agrees to deal with Warriors');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Rudy-Gay-agrees-to-deal-with-Golden-State.jpg"></figure><h1>Rudy Gay agrees to deal with Warriors</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2023-09-27T08:37:13-07:00">September 27th, 8:37am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2023-09-27T09:22:04-07:00">September 27th, 9:22am</time><address><a href="https://joeymistretta.wordpress.com">Joey Mistretta</a>Joey Mistretta is a sports writer/editor who covers multiple sports. Notably, Mistretta covers baseball, basketball, and football, with an emphasis on MLB as a Lead Editor. He is originally from a small town in Southern California. Mistretta graduated college with a degree in broadcast journalism from Biola University.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Rudy Gay and the Golden State Warriors have <a href="https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1707054163719516302" rel="noopener">reportedly agreed</a> to a one-year contract, reports Adrian Wojnarowski of <i>ESPN</i>. Gay is expected to compete for Golden State’s open roster spot during training camp. If he makes the team, Gay will provide a reliable veteran presence.</p><h2><b>Rudy Gay, Warriors agree to one-year contract</b></h2><p>The Warriors have been linked to a number of veteran players, <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/warriors-news-dwight-howard-decision-ahead-of-training-camp" rel="noopener">including Dwight Howard</a>, over the past few weeks. Golden State was even <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba-rumors-rudy-gay-free-agency-lakers-warriors-mavs-pelicans-bulls" rel="noopener">connected to Gay early</a> in free agency, but nothing initially came to fruition.</p><p>Throughout the Warriors’ dynasty, they have relied on adding key veterans around their Steph Curry-led core. Their veterans have typically stepped up and played pivotal roles in the NBA playoffs. Perhaps Rudy Gay can do the same.</p><p>Gay, 37, isn’t the same player he once was. He still can help a team though. Despite averaging just 14.6 minutes per game with the Utah Jazz during the 2022-23 season, Gay posted 5.2 points per game. He was fairly inefficient from the field, but Gay displayed that he can still contribute.</p><p>Again, at the very least, Gay provides veteran leadership. Golden State obviously already has this in Curry, Draymond Green, Klay Thompson, and newly-acquired Chris Paul. But having a bench/role player who’s a respected veteran doesn’t hurt.</p><p>Gay isn’t guaranteed a spot on this roster though. He will need to earn it during NBA training camp. It will be interesting to see what his future holds in Golden State.</p><p>We will continue to monitor and provide updates on Rudy Gay and the Warriors as they are made available.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

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PTS	REB	AST	BLK	STL
5.2	2.9	1.0	0.3	0.3

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