I'm all for it, but what about this from Woj/his agent:
After surgery tonight, Boston's Gordon Hayward is unlikely to return this season, agent Mark Bartelstein told ESPN.
Bartelstein tells ESPN on Hayward: "We expect him to make a full recovery and return to his All-Star form."
While the 2nd tweet is promising, the first is straight from the horse's mouth. I guess nobody will have any idea for at least a few weeks. Everybody heals differently - hopefully Hayward responds well to surgery/rehab and we get him back for a late season boost. Regardless, it's most important he gets to 100%.
Well I think it's clearly in the agent's best interests to keep expectations for this season as low as possible while also trying to keep Hayward's value as high as possible, so of course he'd say don't expect Hayward back this year but he's expected to come back 100%.
Hypothetically, if doctors said there's a 20% chance of Hayward returning to the court before the playoffs, and an 80% chance of him not being back by the playoffs, how would it help Hayward at all to put it out there that he might be able to return this season? That's just going to put crazy expectations on him, even if it's unlikely to happen you know us as fans will only hear "Hayward could be back this year!" The agent's protecting Hayward here.
But it doesn't matter, I'm a fan, I got my green goggles on. I believe the C's can win a championship every year they're in the playoffs, or they'll win the lottery every year they're not. I believe KG was coming back in '09, a Perk injury away in '10, a Jeff Green or Avery Bradley injury away in '12, an Isaiah injury away in '17. Hayward could have had his leg amputated, really anything short of death, and I'm holding out hope he's making it back this year. Even if Danny and Brad both got up and said they 100% guarantee Hayward wouldn't play another game this year, well then they're just clearly trying to fool other teams so they can't game plan against us.