It’s a different world now, as the reported trade to send Gay to the Sacramento Kings reminds us. Perhaps Gay would have been one them, cashing in on $100 million contracts in the era before maximum deals and making yearly trips to the All-Star game thanks to his gaudy-looking 18.0 career scoring average. A few, like Iverson, are absolutely Hall of Famers. They were all effective in their own ways and, like Gay, occasionally excellent. That’s not to say any of those guys are exactly like Gay or that any of them were bad players. It was a good time to be a score-first, score-most-only player in professional basketball. Even into the early 2000s, Allan Houston could pull down $20 million a year from the Knicks, who appear to still pretty much operate under this ’90s mentality today. Glen Rice and Mitch Richmond could be perennial All-Stars. Seeing Rudy Gay get tossed around the league like this is odd for anyone who hit their prime of NBA fandom in the 1990s.īack then, guys like Glenn Robinson could get 10-year, $68 million contracts without ever stepping on the court and Allen Iverson could become arguably the league’s biggest star. Rudy Gay Reportedly Traded to Kings as Star Continues Weird Fall From Grace.
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