Hayward to Boston...Really, We Mean It
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It's official
Shams Charania @ShamsCharania43s
Free agent Gordon Hayward has agreed to a four-year, $128M deal with the Boston Celtics, league source tells The Vertical.
Shams Charania @ShamsCharania43s
Free agent Gordon Hayward has agreed to a four-year, $128M deal with the Boston Celtics, league source tells The Vertical.
It would have been awesome to get both PG and Hayward, but if we could only get one of them this offseason this was the right piece given cost. Sets them up perfectly with a building block for the near and long term (especially if IT isn't re-signed).
So so so so happy. PERFECT fit for this roster. Love it. Stevens is earning his fucking contract.
So, the delay was so Hayward could update his Players' Tribune piece. Reading that it doesn't seem like he ever actually had second thoughts.
Slow waaaay down. This Hayward could be the same guy that leaked the information earlier today and this could all get walked back again momentarily. At the very least I'd like to hear from the agent, or a named Boston or Utah source.
He is exactly the guy who will make the Celts awesome. If Horford was the best FA signing ever last year this surpasses that by orders of magnitude.
Bobby Marks ESPN
With Gordon Hayward now agreeing to a four-year $127M max contract, Celtics management now has a series of transactions to do in order to create cap space. The Celtics would have to pull the qualifying offer on Kelly Olynyk, renounce free agents Jonas Jerebko, James Young, Gerald Green and waive the contracts of Jordan Mickey and Demetrius Jackson (or trade). The Celtics would be left with $27.6M in room and likely need to move the contract of Jae Crowder, Terry Rozier or Marcus Smart. Trading Rozier would have the Celtics short $1M of a max salary a lot.
With Gordon Hayward now agreeing to a four-year $127M max contract, Celtics management now has a series of transactions to do in order to create cap space. The Celtics would have to pull the qualifying offer on Kelly Olynyk, renounce free agents Jonas Jerebko, James Young, Gerald Green and waive the contracts of Jordan Mickey and Demetrius Jackson (or trade). The Celtics would be left with $27.6M in room and likely need to move the contract of Jae Crowder, Terry Rozier or Marcus Smart. Trading Rozier would have the Celtics short $1M of a max salary a lot.
Remember when some in this thread were arguing Stevens wasn't a factor in Hayward's decision because Spoelstra was also a good coach? LOL
I guess Gordon had writer's cramp.
Gordon--welcome to The Ancient and Honorable Brotherhood of the Parquet.
Gordon--welcome to The Ancient and Honorable Brotherhood of the Parquet.
Seems pretty clear he got tripped up by a leak and it took a few hours to get the message right.
Or just write the letter. That was a long but very well written goodbye. That alone must have taken him a day to write
Maybe the hold up was Hayward saying he'll take $1mil less this year so they can keep everyone by just moving Rozier. Wishful thinking.
We are the best team long term in the East. Fuck LeBron and the Cavs. IT, Hayward, Horford, Brown, Tatum and 2 lottery picks to come.
Seems like Stevens definitely played a roll if his statement closes with this:
"And of course, there was Coach Stevens: Not just for the relationship that we’ve built off the court — but also for the one that we started building on the court, all of those years ago, in Indiana. And that unfinished business we had together, back in 2010, when I left Butler for the NBA … as far as I’m concerned, all of these years later, we still have it: And that’s to win a championship."
"And of course, there was Coach Stevens: Not just for the relationship that we’ve built off the court — but also for the one that we started building on the court, all of those years ago, in Indiana. And that unfinished business we had together, back in 2010, when I left Butler for the NBA … as far as I’m concerned, all of these years later, we still have it: And that’s to win a championship."
Anyone questioning Stevens was very, very wrong. Half the piece was devoted to him.
Yep--I said it earlier, Stevens was the first person that told him that he could play in the NBA.