Give your best starting five without Hayward

[GreenEnvy]

Starting lineup with Baynes would be the best without Hayward, but won’t happen.

Hayward is a max contract player, he’s starting. End of story.

 Bro, he snapped his leg like a twig. Ease him in slowly, End of Story.

That doesn’t even make sense. He’d arguably be required to do more coming off the bench without Kyrie and Horford around him. Minutes restriction and coming off the bench are not correlated, so yeah, bro, not happening.

[Kaz]

You could put Baynes in as center alongside Horford, but quite frankly Hayward will start.

Maybe his minutes will be a bit restricted to begin the season, but I can't see him not starting

[mmmmm]

Yeah, um.  No.  Not gonna happen.

Hayward is our highest paid player and arguably our best all-around player and he's Brad's binky.   Assuming he's healthy (and he's apparently 100% cleared), he's not coming off the bench.

If we want a lineup that starts Baynes (and there are many good reasons to do that on occasion) then one of the Js is likely coming off the bench.

[johnnygreen]

We already went through this exercise. It was called the 2017/2018 season. Every Celtics fan has already had enough of not seeing Hayward in the starting lineup.

[Sophomore]

We already went through this exercise. It was called the 2017/2018 season. Every Celtics fan has already had enough of not seeing Hayward in the starting lineup.

I would give this reply 5,000 Tommy Points if I could.