Locke interviews Hayward

[b_line]

Steph Curry is highly underpaid. His contract is the best in the league. The only reason it is so low is because of injury risk. He wanted to lock up the money and GSW didn't want to pay max money to a body cast for several years.

Derozan is making $9.5mm with no raises for 3 years with a 4th year p.o. He's also a highly overrated, inefficient chucker.

Good post frank.

 

[akirac73]

I'm still shock somebody compared Hayward at this point to Derozan let alone Curry. Both are much better players. You could argue IMO him being on par with Batum, but Nic is overpaid and honestly I'd take him over Hayward.

Tell me about it...You would've loved seeing some of the amazing Hayward comparisons thrown out there over the years on Jazzfanz...here's some of my favorites:
Larry Bird
Pete Maravich
Jeff Hornacek
Scottie Pippen
Manu Ginobili

and countless other Hall of Famers I can't even remember.

 

[silesian]

I think the Jazz re-sign Hayward if only to trade him in a year or two. Can't let the asset walk right now.

I agree with this. The risk, however, is that his on-court value drops below his contract value over that same time period. In this case, his contract becomes "toxic" and has no value to a counterparty. Then we are stuck. If a team thinks that Hayward can put them "over the top" and can afford the contract, we'll be able to trade him and his contract for something of value.