I wrote his number down and (later) told him what I went through and how I did it.” “I reached out to Garrett Temple, who was his teammate at the time, and asked him if (Nwaba) was OK. “I actually called him because it happened here in San Antonio, and I saw it,” Gay said. Nwaba was with Brooklyn when he ruptured his Achilles in the fourth quarter of a loss to the Spurs in December 2019 at the AT&T Center. “But if I can do it, they can do it,” he said. “The injury has been an injury where people have kind of written you off and told you that you can’t come back or it’s career-ending,” said Gay, who is in his 15th season. On Thursday, Gay reflected on how he helped three players on the Rockets roster who have recovered from a blown Achilles: John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins and David Nwaba.
