At a projected $97.7 million in committed salaries to a $109 million salary cap, there is room to re-sign Gay with the available room or his Birds Rights, since he will finish a second season in San Antonio this allows the organization to exceed when the salary cap when re-signing him.
That's if he commands a final, lucrative multi-year deal, that guarantees money for the next two-to-three years, instead of the single-year pacts.īuying out Pau Gasol helped San Antonio's cap situation for 2019-20, as they dropped part of the 38-year-old's guaranteed money from $6.7 million to $5.1 million. Vernon is a Memphis guy, so I'm wondering what assets the Grizzlies think they "need" to get back for an over-paid SF?Īnd then there's this, for those who believe a certain local reporter has the ear of Suns ownership (though they didn't listen to him on Beasley).Gay is a complementary piece at this point of his career, but he might not be paid like it in July. Is Rudy Gay that max contract you've been wanting for Christmas? Or it's possible that they could parlay a low future draft pick into Memphis eating Michael Beasley's contract (and then releasing him, and stretching the remaining $9 million guaranteed to him over 5 seasons). But sending out those expirings would seriously dent the cap space this summer. The Suns have (basically) expiring contracts in Wesley Johnson ($4.2 million), Shannon Brown ($3.5 million), Sebastian Telfair ($1.75 million) and a host of <1 million extras on the bench: Tucker, Garrett, Zeller. The Grizzlies have made proposals on Gay to several teams, front-office sources told Yahoo! Sports.īut where would that other $6 million come from? The assumption on Memphis trading Gay is that they want to reduce their future salary obligations, what with huge contracts to three other players on the books: Randolph, Gasol, Conley. In an effort to avoid paying luxury tax in the short term, as well as get off the $17.8 million and $19.3 million owed Gay in the 2013-15 seasons, new Memphis management has aggressively shopped Gay. There's no framework of a possible deal in place, but the Grizzlies have expressed a strong desire that any package involving Gay include Suns forward Jared Dudley and future first-round draft picks, sources said. So they must send out more than $10 million in salary back to Memphis in any deal.Īccording to Woj, the Grizzlies are particularly interested in Jared Dudley ($4.25 million this year) and future picks. What would go back to Memphis is unknown, but the Suns can absorb only $6.3 million (cap space + $100,000) of the $16.4 owed to Gay this season.
The troubling stat is the 3-point shooting, for a team that really needs it. Note that the points and rebounds are while playing on a very good team, with competition for those stats from Zach Randolph. He is only a 31% 3-point shooter over the past two seasons and 34% for his career. Gay has a career average of 17.9 points, 5.7 rebounds and 1.3 steals per game. The commitment would be: $16.4 million, $17.8 million and $19.3 million through 2014-15.
The 26-year old Rudy Gay was re-signed to a maximum extension a year ago, and has 2 more years left on his contract after this season. According to Adrian Wojnarowski, the Phoenix Suns are interested in acquiring Rudy Gay from the Memphis Grizzlies.