An article was published in January 2014 on Grantland (RIP) called “The Rudy Gay Principle.” It broke down the “overpaid” and “overused” wing who’d gone from Memphis to Toronto and then Toronto to Sacramento in less than a year, with both of his previous teams finding new success without him. Gay, though, was also flourishing in a new role as a King — recast from “leading man” to “character actor”, as the article puts it — benefiting from being something other than the “alpha dog” for once. “In the right environment,” the writer states, “(Gay) could be a poor man’s James Worthy.
Rudy Gay is this season’s most fascinating Spur
