Rudy Gay

Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles

The Players' Tribune

Arts, Comedy, Sports

5 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re joined by none other than Rudy Gay! The guys take it all the way back to those legendary Nike Camps and AAU tournaments, dig into Rudy’s early years making an impact in Memphis and learn about the advice Kobe gave Rudy after his Achilles injury. Tune in for a great conversation with a true hooper! Growing up in Brooklyn and Maryland, looking up to Melo (2:40) The importance of Rudy’s Nike Camp, choosing UConn, NCAA Tournament experience (13:45) Getting traded on draft night, the Z-Bo effect in Memphis (39:20) Injury during contract year, 7PM in Brooklyn podcast, Rudy’s favorite dunks of his career (1:05:21)

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0:00.0	First of all, you know what I'm saying?
0:03.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:04.0	This is one of my teammates, you know what I'm saying?
0:06.0	The most athletic teammate I ever played with him and had the pleasure of being around, man.
0:12.0	First of all, man, we appreciate you coming to rock with us.
0:15.0	You know, you're my guy, man.
0:16.0	You had a lot of laughs in my short stint in Memphis.
0:20.0	Appreciate you coming on the show, bro. We're rocking with
0:22.9	us, man. I appreciate y'all having you, man. When you first got to the league, who's the first
0:27.7	person to bust your ass? You know what? I've been seeing y'all, y'all podcast, and I've been
0:31.6	thinking about this, bro. And it was easy for me, T-Mac. That Mac, man. Right out the gate, bro.
0:38.6	We played them, you know, we're in the West, so we played them in pre-season.
0:41.9	That's Houston Mac.
0:42.8	Yeah, Houston Mac.
0:44.2	So, this is with Yao, bro, he gave me 42 in preseason.
0:49.0	In preseason?
0:49.8	Preseason, but I thought he was going to play like two quarters. You know, come out there, shoot a couple shots.
0:55.4	Brough was like, every play.
0:57.9	It was the hang dribble.
0:59.0	Man, everything.
1:00.3	I feel like he was practicing everything on me, bro.
1:03.4	Every timeout, did he look half sleep while he was doing it?
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