Charlotte Hornets’ Gordon Hayward Out Indefinitely with Controversial Injury

The Charlotte Hornets make been plagued past the harm bug this season, including forrard Gordon Hayward, who will follow out indefinitely with a fractured left articulatio humeri blade.

Shams Charania from The Athletic typically breaks a lot of bighearted NBA stories, but inward this instance, an NBA married woman scooped the vanquish writer.

Robyn Hayward, the wife of Gordon Hayward, vented her frustrations well-nigh the Queen City Hornets organisation inward a serial publication of Instagram stories on Fri under the account statement of @robynmhayward.

He really has a fractured scapula… that they had him frolic with cobbler's last game… that’s why he couldn’t make a motion his build up upwards inwards the lowest game,” Robyn Hayward posted on Instagram.

Robyn Hayward responded to a societal media brand from the Hornets that said her married man would non caper in Friday evening’s gamy due to a shoulder contusion. Hayward had missed eight-straight games earliest in Nov with the injury, but he appeared inwards triplet sequential games before he was sidelined on Friday.

“I’m o'er them non protecting players,” added Robyn Hayward. “Just was talking with a immature player’s mom, and she was locution the same thing.”

Was simply virtually to twirp that Gordon Hayward's wife posted this on her IG story almost his accidental injury https://t.co/ulbztlovFL pic.twitter.com/iihIIHlxtt

— Ryan McDonald (@ryanwmcdonald) November 26, 2022

Hayward Nursing a Fractured Shoulder

Hayward averages 16.3 points, 4.4 assists, and 4.3 rebounds per spirited inwards 11 games with the Hornets. He missed time before inward the flavour due to a knee injury, which the Hornets designated as a “knee contusion” on the injury report. He also missed octet games this month with the controversial “shoulder contusion.”

Hayward on the face of it suffered the articulatio humeri harm against the Chicago Bulls inwards the for the first time week of November. He scored septenary points in just 12 transactions before he exited the world-class half and ne'er returned. The Hornets claimed that Hayward missed the endorse half of the Bulls gamey due to left wing shoulder joint soreness. Hayward sat out the next eight games, and the Hornets were 1-7 in his absence.

The Hornets were 1-2 in the utmost ternion games inward which he played. Hayward averaged 13.3 ppg inward that span, including 13 points, heptad assists, and half-dozen rebounds inward 42 minutes of activeness a double-overtime red against the Grover Cleveland Cavs endure Friday. He scored 20 points and knocked downward 3-for-6 from 3-point range inward a four-point loss against the American capital Wizards cobbler's last Sunday.

Hayward Asked for a Trade

During the offseason, Hayward did not ilk the way of the Hornets and asked the team up to merchandise him. He hinted that he’d the like to issue to the UT Jazz, but the Jazz were inward the middle of imploding their team up and trading aside veterans. Hayward made too much money, which is why the Jazz were non interested in bringing him rear to Salt Lake City.

The Hornets fired head word train Saint James Borrego, and re-hired former chief manager Steve Clifford inwards an effort to revamp their defense. Hayward stuck around this flavor to drama for Clifford, but then again, he was not fielding many calls from teams interested in a trade.

Hayward is inwards the 3rd year of a four-year contract bridge worth $120 million. The Hornets took a lot of guff for offering a hefty undertake to a participant who is prone to injuries. The haters had a point. Hayward missed 28 games with the Hornets in 2020-21, and missed 23 games endure season. In 20 games this season, Hayward missed ix games and counting.

Hayward earned a blot on the 2017 NBA All-Star squad in his 7th and net time of year with the Beehive State Jazz before he signed a disengage federal agent contract with the capital of Massachusetts Celtics. He fractured his leg inward the time of year opener in 2017, and played inwards just 1 mettlesome with the Celtics that season. After 3 bumpy years inward Boston, Hayward headed to the Hornets.

With a sleazy shoulder joint and a vainglorious contract, the Hornets and Hayward appear like they’re stuck with from each one other unless there’s a squad seeking a salary rubbish dump patronage at the patronage deadline inward February.

Injuries Mount inwards Buzz City

The Hornets are 6-14 this flavor as the third-worst team up in the Eastern Conference. Only the Orlando Magic (5-14), Detroit Pistons (5-16), and Samuel Houston Rockets (4-14) feature fewer wins than the Hornets this season.

Hayward is one of several starters inward Queen City who missed clip with injuries. Point ward LaMelo Ball suffered a sprained ankle inwards the preseason and did non pee his time of year debut until mid-November. Lucille Ball appeared inward just triad games before he re-aggravated the same articulatio talocruralis when he accidentally stepped on courtside fan while chasing mastered a loose ball.

Shooting safety device Dame Alice Ellen Terry Rozier missed heptad games with a sprained ankle. Dennis Smith, Jr., who filled inward for Ball at gunpoint guard, missed quint games with an mortise joint injury. Small frontwards William Frederick Cody Dino Paul Crocetti played inwards just ane spirited before he underwent knee joint surgery.

With the Hornets struggling to win games with so many starters injured, fans would like to escort the Hornets army tank the rest of the flavour for a jibe at winning the 2023 NBA Draft Lottery. The Hornets are in dire want of a center, and they’re among a half-dozen teams coveting 7-foot-3 French people prospect Victor Wembanyama.

The Hornets are super long shots at +100000 betting odds to win the 2022-23 NBA championship, and lumped unitedly with the pip teams in the conference at the merchantman of DraftKings’ NBA futures board.