The Sacramento Kings receive Rudy Gay, Aaron Gray, and Quincy Acy. The Toronto Raptors receive Greivis Vasquez, John Salmons, Patrick Patterson, and Chuck Hayes.
Being Canadian means I had (have) a weird relationship with basketball. Up here, the entire sport of basketball is heavily promoted and invested into when the Raptors are competitive, and wholly forgotten the rest of the time. You can tell whether the Raptors are good by looking at your local town basketball hoop, and seeing if it's being used.
That means the Rudy Gay trade is important not just to the Raptors as an NBA team, but for basketball as a sport in this country, because when Toronto turned it around, the level of investment in the sport in an entire country turned around. I'll tell you that although I'd been a sports fan for years, the first round games from this season against Brooklyn were the first minutes of basketball I'd ever seen.
It's a happy memory for me to look back at this. I'd even forgotten this trade was how we got Pat Patt. I think this article does a good job covering such a landmark trade. You've got a new subscriber in me!
BTW, sorry for the comment spam. I love your stuff, and can't believe it doesn't get more people sharing their memories like this. If there's anything left Raptors or Blue Jays, or any NFL memory I may have, there may be yet more out of me.
Being Canadian means I had (have) a weird relationship with basketball. Up here, the entire sport of basketball is heavily promoted and invested into when the Raptors are competitive, and wholly forgotten the rest of the time. You can tell whether the Raptors are good by looking at your local town basketball hoop, and seeing if it's being used.
That means the Rudy Gay trade is important not just to the Raptors as an NBA team, but for basketball as a sport in this country, because when Toronto turned it around, the level of investment in the sport in an entire country turned around. I'll tell you that although I'd been a sports fan for years, the first round games from this season against Brooklyn were the first minutes of basketball I'd ever seen.
It's a happy memory for me to look back at this. I'd even forgotten this trade was how we got Pat Patt. I think this article does a good job covering such a landmark trade. You've got a new subscriber in me!
BTW, sorry for the comment spam. I love your stuff, and can't believe it doesn't get more people sharing their memories like this. If there's anything left Raptors or Blue Jays, or any NFL memory I may have, there may be yet more out of me.