An Achilles tendon injury is one of the worst muscular injuries in the NBA, and there’s a long history of players who suffer them never being the same. The other major concern for Gay is his ruptured Achilles, an injury he suffered last January. For a player going into his 12th NBA season with $118 million in career earnings, it’s understandable if winning was more important to him. On the other, though, the Spurs are one of the league’s top four or five teams, while the Kings are.
On one hand, his new Spurs deal is up to $6 million less than he could have made. Gay declined a $14 million option this summer to become a free agent, opting to choose his own path rather than return to the Sacramento Kings. The second year of the deal will have a player’s option. Rudy Gay and the San Antonio Spurs have agreed to a two-year deal worth $17 million, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
