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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; The Memphis Grizzlies owner said that Rudy Gay will not be traded, despite the rumors. (Andrew D. Bernstein/Getty Images)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rudy Gay will\u00A0 not be traded after all, according to Memphis Grizzlies owner Michael Heisley in a report from Ronald Tillery of the &lt;em&gt;Memphis Commercial Appeal&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We\u2019re not looking to trade Rudy Gay,\u201D Heisley said. \u201CWe\u2019re not shopping him around. Period. Do we sit around and say \u2018What if we traded Rudy, who could we get?\u2019 No. Right now, Rudy is part of the future of this team. Our plan was always to protect the core. I\u2019ve the core for four years. If we ever decide to do something it won\u2019t be because of salary. We\u2019re going to build a team around this core group. We understand Rudy\u2019s salary. We understood it when we gave it to him. We\u2019re not looking to cut salary. We\u2019re looking to try and win a championship.\u201D&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rumors have swirled in recent weeks of Gay's departure from the Grizzlies. Most recently, CBSSports.com reported a potential trade that would involve Gay going to the Toronto Raptors in exchange for the Raptors No. 8 pick in the 2012 NBA Draft at the end of June. Golden State was also rumored to be interested in the 25-year-old Gay. According to Tillery, other teams had also expressed an interest in him including Brooklyn, Orlando and Charlotte.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;With $16.4 million due to him in the 2012-13 NBA season, Gay is set to become the Grizzlies second-highest paid player, just $100,000 shy of the $16.5 owed to Grizzlies power forward Zach Randolph.\u00A0 There are three years and $53.6 million remaining on the $84 million contract Gay signed with the Grizzlies in 2010.\nDespite losing to the Los Angeles Clippers in Game 7 of the first round of the NBA playoffs this post-season, Gay averaged 19 points, 6.6 rebounds, 1.4 assists and 1.3 steals, virtually identical to his stats from this past regular season.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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