The reaction was so intense and widespread that we even decided to hold an emergency roundtable with our national NBA coverage crew at The Athletic to discuss the controversial contract at the time.
Atlanta , among others, was in that financial neighborhood too. Still, the widespread criticism came. Less than four months after Hayward and his wife, Robyn, welcomed their fourth child and first son, Gordon Theodore into the world in the middle of the Eastern Conference Finals against Miami in the Orlando bubble, Hayward discussed the many welcome changes that have made up these hectic past few months.
The early returns are very good for the Hornets Through 13 games he missed one with a left hip strain , Hayward is averaging a career-high He had a career-high 44 points in a Jan. Your wife is nine months pregnant. You have a big choice to make in free agency , and then thankfully a lot of teams are interested in you.
The market was robust. What are your reflections on how it all went? Yeah, I mean it definitely was a lot. The family was in Indianapolis, which was good. That kind of messed up the plans. I was originally probably going to come back for the birth of Theodore. But I got hurt, and I had actually been back in Indianapolis for like two and a half, three weeks, and that kind of messed it up. So then I go back to the bubble, we have the baby, we end up losing.
I come back to Indianapolis, and I actually had a pretty minor surgery on my left foot right after the bubble the aforementioned procedure. Normally, during a normal offseason, you have way more than enough time to recover from.
