I won't speak negative of a jazzman, but since Gordy is gone...
Talk about a self absorbed moron. The jazz, and jazz fans might not realize it but Boston did us a huge favor today. For seven years this organization has done everything to appease the little runt.
We made excuses for him while he was getting pushed and shoved and bullied, but never responded.
We were told not to worry that Gordon spent his spare time his first few seasons working on his degree from Butler rather than his basketball game.
We tried to proclaim him a leader, even while his teammate Richard Jefferson scoffed at the idea, telling us leaders have to earn it, they cannot be anointed. He never earned it.
Last season when the team was drifting it was Rudy who laid it out in the locker room, not team captain Gordon.
When Quin shouted Wake up, it was 5th year Hayward on the court.
Time after time the jazz tried to make Gordon the hero. And time after time at the end of games...clank.
When the team needed a basket in the most desperate way, they went to Joe Johnson, not Hayward.
He wants awards, he wants glory, and he wants it handed to him. Everything on his terms, no adversity, nothing earned.
Don't take this wrong I am not a Hayward hater, and I realize he made huge contributions to the jazz, but Gordon is not the superstar he thinks he is. His personal fame will surge in Boston, for awhile, and he will probably enjoy seeing himself on ESPN every night. But as he clanks another potential game winner or demures to his teammates soon ESPN will start talking about "what's wrong with Hayward". Nowhere to hide now Gordon. And where will you turn, when the Boston press sticks a wet Wiley in your ear?
Isaiah Thomas had a courageous performance in the playoffs, and the Boston media/ fans were calling for him to be traded because of his defense.
Al Horford was Bostons big FA signing last summer but the talk after the season was about how to trade or dump him because he didn't rebound.
Jae Crowder is the heart and soul of the team (and the starting sf) the fans and organization practically booed him to applaud a guy who would be his replacement.
Danny Ainge traded Paul pierce, Kevin Garnett, Ramon Rondo and the head coach. He will trade you for a late first rounder if he gets a chance.
You want to live life in the headlines mr. Hayward? Well enjoy it, for the next three years you will be the subject of Multiple trade rumor headlines. Tell Robyn to pack lite, and I recommend renting.
You are walking away from stability into chaos. You think Jae Crowder wants to just hand you his starting job? You think the celtics can let Tatum rot on the bench after they gave up Fultz to get him? You think Jaylen Brown is ready to concede he is forth string? It's not like you handle adversity well.
And what have you done to your dear friend Brad? Because of you He is under extreme pressure to win now. Will you sulk in the corner when he draws up play after play for Isaiah? Will you step and defend him in the hard times, or will you throw him under the Hayward bus tires like you have done to your teammates here?
All this so you can go to a couple of all star games? For what? Each of your all star appearances will have an asterisk. Everyone knows you took the easy path, your all star selection will mean a little more than a kids soccer trophy.
But maybe that is what Gordon Hayward has always been about, wanting others to hand him little plastic emblems of shallow accomplishments.
