Gay’s teammates have noticed the difference on the cusp of his fourth season in San Antonio. COVID put a damper on a lot of things, but then it made me focus on what is important - my family, my health and my body.” “Luckily, I have a facility in Baltimore where I spend a lot of time. “You are sitting in the house all day, you have no choice but to work out,” Gay said. He said boredom spawned from COVID-19 restrictions in both locales worked to his favor. Gay split his offseason between San Antonio and his home in Baltimore. On : Spurs’ Patty Mills, a season of Boomer or bust The more you sit around, the more you get used to sitting around and not doing anything. “It’s not just basketball shape, but shape in general. “I wear my Apple Watch every day to see how many calories I have burned, stuff like that,” Gay said. He changed his workout routine, with less focus on one-on-one isolations skills and more attention toward remaining lighter and mobile. Heading into the offseason, Gay took steps to keep that momentum going. Gay was reborn during the NBA reboot, however, emerging as the Spurs’ third-leading scorer in seven appearances in Orlando at 17.9 points per game. He did most of that damage off the Spurs’ bench, making 62 of his 67 appearances as a reserve. Gay is coming off a season in which he averaged 10.8 points, matching his rookie season in Memphis for the fewest of his career.
I ended up losing weight and I feel good and ready to go.” “Me bulking up would probably not be conducive to what this game is going to. “As you get older and play longer, you try to become as mobile as possible,” Gay said. He said he dropped 10 pounds since the Spurs left the Orlando, Fla., bubble in August, intent on entering his 15th NBA season ready to run alongside the Spurs’ youth movement. “Which is a small glimpse of what we’ll get this season.”Īccording to the 34-year-old Gay, his looks are not deceiving. “He’s already thrown down a couple of monster dunks,” guard Patty Mills said.