Rumors have him being shipped to just about every team imaginable in exchange for different players. Over the past several weeks, Gay appears to be the hottest commodity in basketball since Kevin Durant. The great Brian Windhorst of ESPN put on the tweeter Tuesday night that the Pistons had offered or will offer the expiring contracts of Old Friend Charlie Villaneuva and Rodney Stuckey to the Raptors for Rudy Gay. The NBA trade rumors with regards to Sacramento Kings superstar Rudy Gay seem to be in full swing. You get offers and maybe make counter-offers, agents are killing the phone lines offering to help spend some of your money and having another voice in the office to be heard certainly can't hurt. I know, fancy title, isn't it? Guess you've got to come up with something that gives the perception that it's a promotion from the last job but what Weltman is, regardless of how big his business card has to be to get the full title in large type - is Masai Ujiri's right hand man and a bit of his conscience.Īnd he couldn't have arrived soon enough given what this week might be like.Īny NBA GM worth his iPhone, Blackberry or whatever PDA he has (do they still call them PDA's?) will tell you, this moratorium week is one of the oddest, most stressful of the season. To the surprise of no one - and a couple of days after some thought it might happen - Jeff Weltman arrived as the executive vice-president of basketball operations for the Raptors on Tuesday. Well, at least there's another mind officially on board to help wade through the minefield that is this time of the year.