Teams looking at Gordon Hayward as a buyout possibility

In a recent appearance on Clippers star Paul George’s podcast, Podcast P, Hayward said individual players had “too many agendas,” and that winning was not the primary focus. Hayward said he and Irving were looking to prove themselves after suffering injuries the previous year, and that Brown and Tatum were leading the group of younger players who were reluctant to cede the larger roles they’d embraced the previous year. On Tuesday, Tatum mostly corroborated Hayward’s view. “I mean, yeah, that [expletive] was terrible,” Tatum said. “You guys saw it. We’ve all talked about it. It didn’t work out how we wanted it to, and we were a very talented team but it just didn’t mesh the way we wanted it to. And that’s all right. Guys learned and everybody’s moved on from it. But what Gordon said was kind of right. Guys would come back from injury, guys were trying to prove themselves, like myself. I was trying to be better than I was last year, and it was just kind of a tough year.” -via Boston Globe / January 3, 2024