The precise harm Gordon Hayward is struggling is changing into a supply of competition.
On Friday night, The Athletic’s Shams Charania reported that Hornets ahead Gordon Hayward can be out indefinitely with a left shoulder fracture, and Hayward’s spouse, Robin, agrees.
However that’s not how the Hornets framed it.
The Athletic report surfaced shortly after the Hornets listed Hayward as out Friday towards the Timberwolves — gained 110-108 by Charlotte — with a left shoulder contusion, a considerably lesser ailment than what Charania reported. However Robin disputed the contusion declare on her Instagram Story, noting the harm is considerably worse than the crew’s declare.
“He really has a fractured scapula… that that they had him play with final sport… that’s why he couldn’t transfer his arm up within the final sport,” she wrote.
She later added: “I’m gonna cease right here and never get into prior issues” earlier than persevering with on a subsequent story.
“I’m over them not defending gamers. Simply was speaking with a younger participant’s mother, and he or she was saying the identical factor…” she concluded.
The one-time All-Star Hayward has struggled mightily with accidents all through his profession, highlighted by a horrific left leg harm in his debut with the Celtics in 2017. Till then, Hayward had performed 92.6 % of standard season and playoff video games upon being drafted ninth total in 2010.
However over his final 5 seasons, Hayward has solely performed greater than 52 common season video games in 2019-20 and performed in simply 5 of the Celtics’ 17 playoff video games that marketing campaign. This season, he has been restricted to 11 appearances for the 6-14 Hornets and missed eight video games over a two-week interval earlier in November with the identical left shoulder harm.
Beforehand, the harm additionally had been listed as a left shoulder contusion by the crew.
