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Guest commentary: Gordon Hayward is the most underappreciated NBA player

Utah Jazz forward Gordon Hayward walks though a fog machine during player introductions before an NBA regular season game against the Minnesota Timberwolves at the Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City, Friday, April 1, 2016.

The Utah Jazz drafted Gordon Hayward in hopes that he would be a good NBA player, but no one, not even the Jazz vice president of basketball operations, could have envisioned just how good Hayward has become.

In 2004, Isiah Thomas was named president and general manager of the New York Knicks, and one of his first moves was to trade for Stephon Marbury.