On April 30, Beijing time, when the Jazz lost 2-4 to the Lone Ranger this year, the 35-year-old veteran Gay was undoubtedly extremely sad, he has played 15 seasons in his career, but still failed to break through the first round of the playoffs. Even more tragically, Guy became the only player in NBA history to play at least 15 seasons without ever breaking through the first round to advance to the second round.
A 35-year-old veteran player, Guy switched to the Jazz last summer, signing a three-year, $18.55 million contract, with the Jazz still having two years left, the last of which was a player option.
Only in the regular season this season, Gay averaged 18.9 minutes per game and could efficiently get 8.1 points, 4.4 rebounds and 1 assist. Anyway, in the 6 games of the playoffs, Guy was completely hidden by the snow without playing for a minute, and also watched the Jazz being eliminated by the Lone Ranger for a round of travel.
As a result, Guy has played 15 seasons, becoming the only veteran in history who has played for at least 15 years but has never been able to break through the first round. Gay has played for the Grizzlies, Raptors, Kings, Spurs and Jazz in 5 teams in his career, playing only three rounds of the playoff series.
Gay played in the playoffs with the Grizzlies in 2011-12, losing 3-4 to the Clippers in the first round of seven. As for the 2017-18 season and the 2018-19 season, Gay followed the Spurs to the playoffs, but a 1-4 loss to the Warriors and a 3-4 loss to the Nuggets are undoubtedly extremely sad.
As for Maddy, another retired star who is often ridiculed, he has also played 15 seasons in his career, but has 9 playoff trips. Although Maddy has never led the team to break through the first round of the playoffs, he still advanced to the Finals with the team when he played for the Spurs in the 2012-13 season, even if he did not get the opportunity to appear in the Finals, but he averaged 5.2 minutes per playoff game that year, averaging 0 points, 1.3 rebounds and 1.2 assists per game, so Guy was worse than Maddie.
(Text/Drunken Floating Life)