“At this point in my career, I think I want some kind of consistency and we don’t have that here, at all,” Gay said at the time. The comments he made during a July interview with Sactown Royalty didn’t sound like they came from a player who was committed to his team for the long term. Of course, the fact that Gay is strongly leaning toward departing Sacramento next year doesn’t come as a real surprise. As Wojnarowski observes, Gay’s declaration that he expects to leave the Kings in 2017 may make the franchise more motivated to trade him.
Rudy Gay and his camp have informed the Kings that the veteran forward plans to decline his player option for 2017/18 next summer, and is unlikely to re-sign in Sacramento, reports Adrian Wojnarowski of The Vertical.
