Hornets sign Gordon Hayward to a 4 year $120 million contract

[pwaldo]

https://www.hoopsrumors.com/2020/11/...year-deal.html

The Hornets are signing Gordon Hayward, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, who reports (via Twitter) that the forward’s new deal will be worth $120MM over four years. It’s fully guaranteed, tweets David Aldridge of The Athletic.

[WilyWestbrook0]

Lots of moves overall today. Regarding this one, no way Hayward is worth that much. He wasn't even worth that when he was coming off his best years in Utah, prior to that catastrophic injury he suffered early in his time with Boston three years ago (and which I don't think he's ever fully recovered from).

[pwaldo]

I agree with everything you said. It seems like the covid issue isn't stopping the NBA from throwing out contracts to anyone and everyone. In baseball you are seeing the owners count their pennies but in the NBA they are just throwing around money like it is going out of style. Very weird as they are acting like nothing has changed.

[WilyWestbrook0]

I agree with everything you said. It seems like the covid issue isn't stopping the NBA from throwing out contracts to anyone and everyone. In baseball you are seeing the owners count their pennies but in the NBA they are just throwing around money like it is going out of style. Very weird as they are acting like nothing has changed.

Yup. I saw that even Bogdan Bogdanovic got $72 mil over four years. Bogdan Bogdanovic! lol. All he does is chuck threes, and he's not even a 40 pct shooter from there, or close to 20 ppg.

[bakemeister52]

Both of those deals were crazy and there seems no end to the NBA spending!

Bake

[Rybowski]

I never understood why this guy always commanded a high salary. When healthy, he is never the #1 scorer on a team and sometimes not even the 2nd best scorer. When you are averaging a little over 15 PPG for your career, you shouldn't be making $30 million a year.