SFUTAHNBA🌅 Early Bloomer · 2012

Rudy Gay

6'8" · 250 lbsBorn August 17, 19862007–2023College: UConnDraft: 2006 · Rd 1, Pick 8 · Houston RocketsESPN ↗

NBA Stats

Career Snapshot

Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.

NBA profile

Peak 3Y VAL

6.3

2011, 2012, 2015 avg

Career VAL

47.2

Value Above League

Games

1,120

Points

17,642

Rebounds

6,283

Assists

2,280

Win Shares

64.7

Playoff VAL

13.4

postseason

College Stats

College Per Game

Season	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
2005	Connecticut	31	26	28.8	46.2%	46.7%	70.8%	5.4	1.5	0.8	1.9	11.8
2006	Connecticut	33	33	30.8	46.1%	31.8%

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 88.8th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

Boards that rank NBA careers

NBA Age Milestones — Youngest to 20 PPG, 10 RPG and 100 Career VAL NBA Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High Leaps NBA Career Arc Types NBA Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categories NBA Clutch Delta — Who Rises in the Playoffs NBA Compilers vs Comets — Career Shape NBA Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-Bust NBA Era-Adjusted Careers — Greatest Careers on One Scale NBA Era-Adjusted Seasons — Greatest Seasons in Modern Terms NBA Franchise Mt. Rushmores — Four Faces of Every Team NBA Greatest Single Seasons by VAL (All Positions)NBA Hall of Very Good — Great Careers on the Hall's Doorstep NBA Journeymen NBA League Leader Marks — Most League-Leading Seasons NBA Loyalty NBA Only Club — Statistical Exclusivity

Similar careers

Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.

Where this data comes from

Box scores, rosters, and draft data (2002+) come from sportsdataverse's hoopR release. College, international, and pre-2002 per-game rows are backfilled additively from Wikipedia.

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Wikipedia — Facts extracted under Feist v. Rural Telephone; courtesy CC-BY-SA attribution

Methodology · Trust Center

Season	Age	Team	GP	MPG	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TOPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	VAL
2007	20	MEM	78	27.0	10.8	4.5	1.3	0.9	0.9	1.8	42.2%	36.4%	72.7%	0.00
2008	21	MEM	81	37.0	20.1	6.2	2.0	1.4	1.0	2.3	46.1%	34.6%	78.5%	0.05
2009	22	MEM	79	37.3	18.9	5.5	1.7	1.2	0.7	2.6	45.3%	35.1%	76.7%	0.03
2010	23	MEM	80	39.7	19.6	5.9	1.9	1.5	0.8	2.1	46.6%	32.7%	75.3%	0.03
2011	24	MEM	54	39.9	19.8	6.2	2.8	1.7	1.1	2.5	47.1%	39.6%	80.5%	0.12
2012	25	MEM	65	37.3	19.0	6.4	2.3	1.5	0.8	2.5	45.5%	31.2%	79.1%	0.10
2013	26	All teams	75	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.05
2014	27	All teams	73	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.07
2015	28	SAC	68	35.5	21.1	5.9	3.7	1.0	0.6	2.7	45.5%	35.9%	85.8%	0.09
2016	29	SAC	70	34.0	17.2	6.5	1.7	1.4	0.7	2.0	46.3%	34.4%	78.0%	0.02
2017	30	SAC	30	33.8	18.7	6.3	2.8	1.5	0.9	2.5	45.5%	37.2%	85.5%	0.05
2018	31	SA	57	21.7	11.5	5.1	1.3	0.8	0.7	1.4	47.1%	31.4%	77.2%	0.05
2019	32	SA	69	26.7	13.7	6.8	2.6	0.8	0.5	1.7	50.4%	40.2%	81.6%	0.06
2020	33	SA	67	21.8	10.8	5.4	1.7	0.5	0.5	1.3	44.6%	33.6%	88.2%	0.00
2021	34	SA	63	21.5	11.4	4.8	1.4	0.7	0.6	1.0	42.0%	38.1%	80.4%	0.01
2022	35	UTAH	55	18.9	8.1	4.4	1.0	0.5	0.3	0.9	41.4%	34.5%	78.5%	0.01
2023	36	UTAH	56	14.6	5.2	2.9	1.0	0.3	0.3	0.7	38.0%	25.4%	85.7%	0.00

Rudy Gay

NBA Stats

Career Snapshot

College Stats

College Per Game

All-time standings

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Where this data comes from

Career arc · VAL by season

What he added · wins above replacement

Intelligence

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