- LARRY KUZNIEWSKI
After I posted my lengthy piece about Rudy Gay‘s then-impending free agency, um, yesterday morning, I joked on Twitter than it could be irrelevant any day now. But I didn’t think irrelevance would come quite this quickly.
Midway into the first day that free agents were allowed to negotiate with teams, multiple reports indicated — and Michael Heisley essentially confirmed to NBA Fanhouse’s Chris Tomasson — that the Grizzlies and Gay had reached a verbal agreement on a deal that would pay Gay roughly $82 million over five years. The contact can’t be signed until July 8th, but there’s no reason to believe that this deal won’t be consummated then.
What to make of this somewhat unexpected news?