The Grizzlies completed a trade sending forward Shane Battier to the Rockets for Stromile Swift and Rudy Gay on Wednesday.

Gay, a 6-foot-9, 220-pound forward from Connecticut, started 59 games and averaged 13.6 points and 5.9 rebounds last season. He was taken with the eighth overall pick in the draft. Gay signed a two-year deal with team options for a third and fourth years immediately after the trade was completed.

The deal also brings back Swift, a 6-9, 230-pound forward the Grizzlies allowed to leave as a free agent last summer.

But the Grizzlies gave up Battier, the team's first draft pick after moving to Memphis from Vancouver.