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Gordon Hayward Retires

str8line said:
"Gordon Hayward's wife Robyn is known to speak out, especially when he comes to matters concerning her husband. She recently took aim at Sam Presti, after the Oklahoma City Thunder general manger shouldered the blame for signing off on the trade for Hayward.

"I missed on that," Presti said, via ESPN. "That’s on me. But I’m learning, I’m trying to learn this team, I’m trying to learn the pace of the team a little bit. And trying to be a great observer of the team as it’s going through its paces, knowing that it’s really going to change on its own in and of itself."

Tre Mann, Vasilije Micic, David Bertans and future draft picks were sent to the Charlotte Hornets in exchange for Hayward in February. Hayward averaged 14.5 points per game over his 25 appearances with the Hornets.

Robyn fired back at Presti by responding to a social media post that highlighted Presti's comments. "Why trade for someone and not play them? … missed it by not integrating him," she wrote.

Hayward's production declined when he arrived in Oklahoma City, with the one-time NBA All-Star averaging just 5.3 points per game. Hayward's playing time also dipped considerably as he was on the basketball court for an average of 17.2 minutes in his 26-game stint with the Thunder.

Hayward's playing time was also limited in the playoffs, where he only managed three shot attempts.

Gordon previously expressed his frustration with his brief stint with Oklahoma City.

"I feel as a player, I have a lot to offer," Gordon said, according to ESPN. "Just wasn’t really given much of an opportunity to do that. I thought I would be given that opportunity."

During the 2022-23 season, Hayward suffered a shoulder fracture. Before a November 2022 game against the Timberwolves, the Hornets announced that he would miss the contest due to a shoulder contusion.

However, Robyn took issue with how the Hornets described the injury.

A shoulder contusion is less severe than a shoulder fracture, and Robyn took to social media to share her displeasure with the discrepancy.

"He actually has a fractured scapula … that they had him play with last game … that’s why he couldn’t move his arm up in the last game," she wrote on Instagram.

She later added, "I’m gonna stop here and not get into prior things," before continuing on a subsequent Instagram story.

She then concluded, "I’m over them not protecting players. Just was talking with a young player’s mom, and she was saying the same thing…"
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He is so lucky to have his mo...er wife to stick up for him. My wife would never do that, of course she doesn't cotton to whining.
 
Haywood really screwed over the Jazz by signing with the Celtics and the team getting no compensation. I hope he does something meaningful with the rest of his life.
 
homeytennis said:
Haywood really screwed over the Jazz by signing with the Celtics and the team getting no compensation. I hope he does something meaningful with the rest of his life.
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Didn’t we at least get Favors out of the Dwill trade?

We got a nutsack for Hayward.
 
The Midnight said:
I don’t .

I hope he gets what he deserves.
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So he deserves a cushy retirement playing video games all day and once a year meeting with his mo...er wif...errrr "accountants" to review his 9-figure investment portfolio? What exactly did he to for karma to give him so so much more than others? Must be a saint.
 
The Midnight said:
Karma is basically the rule of cause and effect that governs the universe.

It’s as real as you and me.
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No karma is the metaphysical quasi-supernatural belief in the universe "balancing" itself specifically to right perceived wrongs committed by humans. As if we matter more in the universe than any other animal, which is ludicrous. It's not even the right application of the word in its original meaning. Karma as it gets thrown around on social media is ********. There is zero cause and effect in play here, it is just **** that happens coincidentally by random chance that dimwits attribute to karma.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Some of yall got to learn to let things go
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Even when the injury happened, I felt very weirded out by some people watching a human being's leg break like that and being able to celebrate it, regardless of how he left the Jazz.

I get not wanting him to succeed in Boston, but celebrating that?

Grosses me out.
 
LogGrad98 said:
So he deserves a cushy retirement playing video games all day and once a year meeting with his mo...er wif...errrr "accountants" to review his 9-figure investment portfolio? What exactly did he to for karma to give him so so much more than others? Must be a saint
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No.

You got to compare it to what could have been had he not backstabbed us in the back.

The moment he did that his life went downhill. Fast.
 
LogGrad98 said:
No karma is the metaphysical quasi-supernatural belief in the universe "balancing" itself specifically to right perceived wrongs committed by humans. As if we matter more in the universe than any other animal, which is ludicrous. It's not even the right application of the word in its original meaning. Karma as it gets thrown around on social media is ********. There is zero cause and effect in play here, it is just **** that happens coincidentally by random chance that dimwits attribute to karma.
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If you’re nice to me, I’m more likely to be nice to you.

That’s the most basic form of Karma.
 
I do wonder if Utah ownership will embrace Hayward like they have for past Jazz players. Or if Hayward would accept doing things like appearing at Jazz games next to past teammates (like 6-10 years from now).

I know we look back on Dwill being less controversial than Hayward due to the fact the Jazz actually got "benefit" from Dwill leaving (really turned out to be nothing that helped the Jazz all that much and still has a lasting negatie effect with the Favors trade to OKC holding up the 1st rounder). But when the Dwill thing happened he was blamed as the person who made Sloan quit which was a huge deal to a lot of people.
 
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