On April 29, Beijing time, the NBA playoffs continued, and the Jazz lost to the Lone Rangers 96-98, and the total score was eliminated 2-4. Doncic's career debuted in the second round of the playoffs, which made Lone Ranger fans ecstatic, but some people were happy and often some people had back injuries, and in the Jazz team, a veteran who had been playing for 15 years still failed to break the first round of spells on himself.
The veteran is 35-year-old Rudy Guy. So far in the rookie season, Guy's team has never broken through the first round of the playoffs. More tragic than in previous years, in this year's playoffs, the veteran did not even catch 1 second after 4 games.
It's a bit of a surprise that Guy was treated this way, because the Jazz signed it on a three-year, $18.55 million mini-midterm contract last offseason, playing in 55 games in the regular season, averaging 8.1 points and 4.4 rebounds in 18.8 minutes per game, and proving that he still had oil in his tank.
But since the regular season game with the Trail Blazers ended on April 11, Gay has completely dropped off the Jazz's rotation list. In the six games of the playoffs, Gay has never been able to gain Snyder's trust.
It must be admitted that today's Guy is indeed due to his age, his athletic ability has declined, and the lateral movement speed is also a little slow, but after all, he has played in the NBA for many years and has rich experience, and in the fierce confrontation of the playoffs, he has fought 6 games but does not let him go for 1 second, which is really incomprehensible.
For the Jazz, the more embarrassing problem is still to come, Gay's contract will not expire until 2024, in the first year of the contract, he has been abandoned, then the next 2 seasons, Gay's age is getting older, the Jazz are even less likely to use him. Although Guy's contract is not large, for the Jazz team with tight salary space, it is still too wasteful to waste a mini middle-class, and may have to do so in the end, and the Jazz can only post the draft pick to send him away. And whether the veteran has a chance to break through the first round of the spell for the rest of his career will see where the Jazz will send him.