Rudy Gay fuming over 'dirty play' that injured jaw

MADRID — Rudy Gay didn't look like a player on the verge of winning his second FIBA gold medal. As Team USA's practice was coming to an end Saturday, the Sacramento Kings forward sat with a solemn look in his courtside seat.

His smile isn't the same these days, through no fault of his own.

Gay took a vicious elbow to the top of his mouth in the third quarter of Team USA's Thursday win over Lithuania, and the damage done by big man Darjus Lavrinovic will be coming home with him after Sunday's gold medal game against Serbia and this FIBA World Cup comes to an end.

"I've got a fracture in my jaw, a broken tooth and am going to probably need a root canal," Gay told USA TODAY Sports. "The top is where I got hit. It's painful. It's uncomfortable, and it still bleeds, so I've got to continuously gargle. It is what it is, man."

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