He wants to be the leader and he wants to take this franchise to where it wants to go. Though this will be the first time he’ll spend the majority of the offseason staying in his apartment downtown, Gay’s been attached to the Baltimore area almost his entire life. He was born in Brooklyn-a fact that has somehow evaded all of his personal bios, including the one on NBA.com-where he lived on Bergen Street in Crown Heights until his family moved to Maryland when he was 2.
He grew up in Dundalk, MD, with his mother and three sisters.
