Sources: Boston and Charlotte have worked on a sign-and-trade for Gordon Hayward that would land Celtics a trade exception, but Hornets have first been trying to find a third team for Nic Batum's $27M contract to see if there's a way to avoid waiving-and-stretching his money.
As we immmediatley wrote on Twitter after seeing Woj's tweet, this is not really new news here. Like the whole world knows that the Celtics are working with the Hornets on a sign-and-trade for Hayward, so that Boston doen't lose him for zilch. And everyone is well aware that the Hornets have been trying to dump the the anvil that is Nikolas Batum's contract for quite some time now with obvioulsy no takers.