Gordon Hayward was one of the biggest free agents of the NBA summer. Boston Celtics got their guy who they had been pining over in the last couple of years. We all know the story about Brad Stevens being his coach in college, and many people were fascinating to see how the two worked together in the NBA. We are going to still have to wait for that after Hayward suffered a gruesome injury in the first minutes of the first game of the NBA season. It’s a heartbreaking loss for the Celtics, and it’s a bummer for the NBA.

Thoughts and prayers to Gordon Hayward. Terrible injury, heartbreaking to see such a great player go down like that. pic.twitter.com/XrW3IwZqT6

— Peter (@peter_427) October 18, 2017

Celtics will be opening up their season tonight against the Milwaukee Bucks. This is one of the more marquee games of the evening, yet everyone will be thinking about Hayward. Boston fought back from 20 down in last night’s game, but you have to think their heads were still at what happened in the first minutes of the game. Hayward’s injury does impact the Eastern Conference, and where we stand today. Boston is still a very good team without him as Kyrie Irving is one of the best in the game. But this might limit what this team can do in the postseason if Heyward is out for the whole year.

Hopefully, he recovers in full and gets back to being the basketball player we all know he is.

Charlie.