C's arent trading Hayward if they are going after Walker. Need an other vet presence with the young guys. Plus DA has some mending of the Celtics rep to take care of. Trading an other hurt star wpuld kill future FA signings.
No it wont.
Losing and tying up too much capspace kills signing people in the future
Actually keeping Haywards contract this year could help the future in a couple ways. If he doesn't get back to Utah-ish Hayward, he may opt out. I think he's a pretty level headed guy and part of the issue last season was it was getting to him that he wasn't producing and the weight of it was getting to his head. This now pens up cap next summer.
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DA uses his contract as an expiring to snag a big name who wants out, or semi big contract and extra bits.
You're acting like Hayward has 4 years left on the contract when it could be opened up next summer.
And YES it could hurt FA signings trading Hayward right now before he's had a summer of no rehab and just work on his game. Dude was still healing during the season. Rest is a huge thing, and him playing on it every day and rehabbing every day, prolonged his ankle to be 100%. Those ligaments were still weak. Now he's had rest, and he can get work in with out worrying about al the other things. Then see were he's at this fall.
AD, well his father, didn't like how they treated IT4, and I think that was in the back of there mind, and it's been reported that other players took a double take at Boston because of it.