"You've just gotta laugh so you don't cry, you know?"
Throughout the poignant footage of the Toronto Raptors locker room following news of the Rudy Gay trade, no words resonate more as we're exposed to an emotional side of the game that we don't typically see.
As Aaron Gray slowly walked around the locker room, coming to grips with the fact that he'd been traded from the Raptors to the Sacramento Kings, he looked right at the camera and spoke that sentence (13:55 in the video you can see below), echoing how just about everyone felt at the time.
It's hard to remember sometimes, but the world of sports is more than just a business.
At the heart of the NBA, everything is about numbers and money. However, there's sometimes a rather large dichotomy between the business decisions of the front offices and the personal relationships that are formed by the employed players.
When a trade goes down—even one that had been brewing, just maybe not in the form that eventually became a reality—it catches everyone by surprise. It splits up friendships and creates ...
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Watch Behind-the-Scenes Footage of Raptors Players Reacting to Rudy Gay Trade
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