Gordon Hayward

If Rudy Gobert is even half as talented at recruiting free agents as he is at playing basketball, Gordon Hayward won’t be leaving the Utah Jazz. Gobert, one of the NBA’s foremost frontrunners for the Defensive Player of the Year award, plans to pull out all the stops to get his teammate, who owns a [...]

Gordon Hayward’s free-agency decision may be more than a two-team affair after all. According to the New York Daily News‘ Frank Isola, there are rumblings that the All-Star forward may join the Miami Heat if he decides to move on from the Utah Jazz: Riley has a home court advantage because Miami is a prime free [...]

If the Indiana Pacers are looking to retain and renew Paul George’s affections, adding Gordon Hayward would be a great start. Totally reasonable, right? Sources told ESPN.com’s Zach Lowe that George, who is a free agent in 2018 and considered a flight risk, would love the chance to play with the Indiana native: It all [...]

‘ We’ve talked about it. We’ve thought about it. We’ve assumed it was true. But we’ve never really received confirmation on it. Did the Boston Celtics essentially stand pat at the trade deadline so that they could go after Gordon Hayward (player option) in free agency? The unofficially official answer: Yes and no. Here’s what [...]

The Utah Jazz do not seem overly worried about Gordon Hayward’s scheduled foray into free agency next summer. That’s a big deal. Hayward holds a player option on 2017-18 worth a little more than $16.7 million, which he will decline. He is in the prime of his career and the salary cap is expected to [...]

Well you know the regular season is finally around the corner when you start to hear the free agency chatter for the upcoming off-season. We haven’t even gotten to game 1 of the 2016-17 season and the rumor mill is churning around one of the better young wing players (in a league devoid of them) [...]

The Boston Celtics are trying to turn their No. 3 draft pick into a star-caliber player. It is not going well. From ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: But sources told ESPN that the Celtics, to date, have been rebuffed in their efforts to assemble a sufficiently enticing deal to acquire any of these four prime targets: Chicago [...]

Rudy Gobert’s sprained ankle is of little concern to Rudy Gobert. The third-year shot-swallower left with a sprained ankle during the fourth quarter of the Utah Jazz’s 118-114 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday and did not return. The idea that he could miss time, any time at all, is absolutely terrifying, because the [...]

Tom Thibodeau is not joining the Utah Jazz’s coaching staff. Repeat: Tom Thibodeau is not joining the Utah Jazz’s coaching staff. He is, however, helping them out. From Jody Genessy of the Deseret News: Turns out, Thibodeau is in town at the request of the Jazz. Thibodeau isn’t here to be added to the Jazz’s [...]

This season, Wizards shooting guard Bradley Beal told USA Today that himself and Wall are, “definitely the best backcourt in the league.” But, after his dismissal from the Warriors, former Head Coach Mark Jackson called Klay Thompson and Stephen Curry the, “greatest shooting backcourt in the history of the game.” Since then, the question of [...]