twentytwo
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As per NBA.com.
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You shouldn’t have any problem spotting Utah Jazz rookie Gordon Hayward on the streets of Salt Lake City.
He’ll be the 6-foot-8 NBA rookie climbing out of the shiny new car.
A Honda Accord.
That’s right. Hayward went all out on his first car, per my main man Tim Buckley of the Deseret News:
Still unaccustomed to the actual purchase power of his newfound riches, Hayward — 20-year-old Hoosier, Jazz rookie millionaire, newly minted Larry H. Miller dealership loyalist — is not nearly spoiled enough yet to think so ostentatiously.
He got a Honda Accord.
“That’s a good, practical car for me,” Hayward said Tuesday, after his first session of fall two-a-day training camp. “The first car I’ve ever owned, so that was real exciting when I drove off with it the first time.”
The Accord — most sticker well under $30,000 — is a little more low-to-the-road than the minivan, but not far removed from the class in which he’s been rolling.
“I had a (Honda) Civic growing up, too,” said Hayward, who nicknamed his old van White Warrior in a futile attempt to make it cool. “So it’s an upgrade from the Civic.”
Grounded by his Heartland upbringing in the Indianapolis suburb of Brownsburg, it should come as no surprise — even though he didn’t buy American — that the Butler University product will blend anonymously into I-15 traffic.
This is our new favorite rookie here at the hideout, a Top 10 draft pick willing to rock a ride that could pass for any of ours.
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You shouldn’t have any problem spotting Utah Jazz rookie Gordon Hayward on the streets of Salt Lake City.
He’ll be the 6-foot-8 NBA rookie climbing out of the shiny new car.
A Honda Accord.
That’s right. Hayward went all out on his first car, per my main man Tim Buckley of the Deseret News:
Still unaccustomed to the actual purchase power of his newfound riches, Hayward — 20-year-old Hoosier, Jazz rookie millionaire, newly minted Larry H. Miller dealership loyalist — is not nearly spoiled enough yet to think so ostentatiously.
He got a Honda Accord.
“That’s a good, practical car for me,” Hayward said Tuesday, after his first session of fall two-a-day training camp. “The first car I’ve ever owned, so that was real exciting when I drove off with it the first time.”
The Accord — most sticker well under $30,000 — is a little more low-to-the-road than the minivan, but not far removed from the class in which he’s been rolling.
“I had a (Honda) Civic growing up, too,” said Hayward, who nicknamed his old van White Warrior in a futile attempt to make it cool. “So it’s an upgrade from the Civic.”
Grounded by his Heartland upbringing in the Indianapolis suburb of Brownsburg, it should come as no surprise — even though he didn’t buy American — that the Butler University product will blend anonymously into I-15 traffic.
This is our new favorite rookie here at the hideout, a Top 10 draft pick willing to rock a ride that could pass for any of ours.
