“We’re on buses, planes, back to buses and then to our cars. Music to athletes is like an everyday thing,” Gay said. It was no different when he suffered the scariest injury of his career, one that threatened to derail him forever. Gay uses it as ammunition to combat the cynics. Gay, a recent acquisition by the Spurs, is a big music fan.
It was those words of encouragement from Matthews, as well as Kobe Bryant, who Gay admitted “motivated the hell out of me,” that assisted in his recovery.īut there was also another source that played a role: Music. Let every emotion out that comes across you because you’re going to get the whole gambit of them. “Respect the process,” Matthews told Gay.
