Gordon Hayward agrees to 4-year deal with Charlotte
Update: For Charlotte to add Gordon Hayward they have to: Work a sign-and-trade with Boston, trade away $7.5M in salary elsewhere and waive and stretch Nic Batum at about $9M a year for the next three years.
Source: Keith Smith of Yahoo Sports (Twitter)
Free agent Gordon Hayward is signing a 4-year, $120M deal with Charlotte, per source.
Source: Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN (Twitter)
ANALYSIS: The
Celtics have now lost two max contract players in free agency in
the past two years; Kyrie Irving (Brooklyn) and now Gordon Hayward
who will sign with the Hornets. Gordon Hayward signed an offer
sheet with Charlotte back in 2014 as a restricted free agent but
the Jazz ultimately matched the Hornets contract and kept him. Now
six years later Charlotte gets their guy, and this will be Michael
Jordan's biggest free agent signing since becoming owner of the
Hornets.
With the additions of LaMelo Ball
and now Gordon Hayward, the Hornets will look to make some noise
next year in the Eastern Conference.