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It was recently announced that Rudy Gay was nominated for the 2018-19 Twyman-Stokes Award: a player-voted award goes to the NBA’s best teammate, and one little clip from the Spurs blowout of the Wizards shows why:
Rudy plays D. Rudy helps force 3-second violation. Rudy congratulated by team. Rudy smiles! Rudy subbed out. Rudy checks with Pop. Rudy validated by Pop. #GoodFeelings pic.twitter.com/oKPKMu6lru
— J.R. Wilco (@jollyrogerwilco) April 7, 2019
Obviously the Spurs were in a good mood by that point in the game, but how many players get shown so much love for forcing an inconsequential three-second violation? His smile of appreciation says it all...
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...as does the one he gets from Pop.
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That being said, no word yet on whether Rudy was the victim of any April Fool’s jokes from his peers.
Rudy might need to pay extra close attention on #AprilFoolsDay2019 pic.twitter.com/gT1Wf4KxTj
— San Antonio Spurs (@spurs) April 1, 2019