All-star Hayward agrees to sign with Celtics | Inquirer Sports

All-star Hayward agrees to sign with Celtics

/ 09:37 AM July 05, 2017

Gordon Hayward will be teaming up with Isaiah Thomas in Boston. AFP/GETTY IMAGES FILE PHOTO

BOSTON—Free agent Gordon Hayward has agreed to join the Boston Celtics in a move which will reunite him with his former US college coach Brad Stevens, The Players’ Tribune reported on Tuesday.

The all-star swingman Hayward addressed his decision to move from the Utah Jazz to the Celtics in an article he wrote for the website which was titled “Thank You Utah”.

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Hayward spurned his now former NBA team as well as the Miami Heat to commit to the Celtics and Stevens, who coached him at Butler University.

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“And that unfinished business we had together, back in 2010, when I left Butler for the NBA,” Hayward wrote of Stevens, who has been with the Celtics since the 2013-14 season. “As far as I’m concerned, all of these years later, we still have it: And that’s to win a championship.”

Hayward averaged 21.9 points per game last season and played in his first all-star game.

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Hayward said he felt a need to address speculation that he was in fact making a switch to Boston.

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“This has been the toughest decision that I’ve ever had to make in my life. This weekend has probably been the longest weekend of my life. And today … well, today has definitely been one of the craziest days of my life,” he wrote.

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“What’s crazy is — before I even had a chance to make my decision, before I had a chance to sit down and write this, and before I even had a chance to talk about it with the people I love — I was already reading reports about where I was going.”

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This the second year in a row the Celtics have landed a big-time free agent. Last year they signed Al Horford.

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