Back to the past

Wrote about Gordon Hayward today for FiveThirtyEight. Excerpt:

Two months into Hayward’s Hornets tenure, one can quibble with the salary-cap gymnastics the Hornets engaged in to create room for Hayward on their roster, but it’s difficult to say his play has not justified his $28.5 million 2020-21 salary. In fact, if you removed identifiers like the year,…