Rudy Gay’s professional basketball career officially began when he was selected as the eighth pick in the first round of the 2006 NBA Draft by the Houston Rockets, but was immediately traded to the Memphis Grizzlies. In 2005, Gay played for US Men’s Under-21 national team. He later enrolled at the University of Connecticut. Throughout his high school career, Rudy Gay was honored with several awards including McDonald’s All-American and Washington Post All-Met Basketball Player of the Year Awards. He first attended Baltimore County’s Eastern Technical High School where he continued playing basketball, but later transferred to Archbishop Spalding High School. At the age of 14, Rudy got involved in the nationally acclaimed Cecil-Kirk AAU program where he trained under widely known coach, Anthony Lewis. Rudy’s interest in basketball dates to his early teenage years, when he began playing in the Maryland youth Turner Station Community league, at the age of 12. Taking into consideration that Rudy’s current annual salary is $13.33 million, it is no wonder that his overall wealth is such an impressive sum.
Have you ever wondered how much wealth this pro athlete has accumulated so far? How rich Rudy Gay is? According to sources, it is estimated that the total amount of Rudy Gay’s net worth, as of early 2017, is over $40 million, acquired largely through his professional basketball career in the world’s toughest basketball league, which has been active since 2006. He is also a two times FIBA World Championship gold medalist, in 20. was born on the 17th August 1986, in Baltimore, Maryland USA, and is a professional basketball player, best known for being a small forward of the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) Memphis Grizzlies, Toronto Raptors and currently Sacramento Kings. Rudy is known to be one of the rich players in NBA history and because of his contracts worth and the salary he draws yearly playing basketball, his net worth is estimated to be around $19.32 million and is projected to increase in the future as well considering his present associations and contracts.Rudy Carlton Gay Jr. According to his NBA stats he has played over 650 games in his professional career and has scored in close to 614 games out of these as of time. He later on joined the team Toronto Raptors in the year 2013 and played for them for only 1 year to join Sacramento Kings and he is currently associated with the team since 2013. His performance with team was much appreciated and he won the team many championships because of his performances. He played on with the team for the longest time of his professional career and continued with them till 2013. After passing out of his graduation he signed a contract with the team Memphis Grizzlies in the year 2006 to make his NBA debut. He came to notice when he was playing basketball at college level and was awarded multiple times there and nominated Player of the year by various magazines and news channels. He is also having one child with Ecko whom they are taking care of together.Īccording to his biography, Rudy started playing basketball at high school and performed well there. He is known to share a very strong bond with his wife and they both are staying together since their marriage.
Rudy had a long-time girlfriend with the name Ecko Wray whom he married in the year 2013 to make her his wife. Overall in college he played over 60 games and scored in close to 59 games. He was much appreciated by his coaches, sports enthusiasts and the viewers for his performances. Later he was also awarded Player of the Year by Big East Preseason and other magazines and news channels. He was awarded with National Freshman of the Year by a sports news channel. He was awarded multiple times at college and he rose to fame because of his performances in college.
He played there stupendously and won many matches there.