Your Morning Dump… All Eyes on Gordon Hayward

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Danny Ainge briefly sounded squeamish. The question was about next year’s $99 million salary cap falling about $2 million short of projections, and news of that sort is never good for a personnel chief with plans to go major free agent hunting when the market opens Saturday.

“That hurt. That hurt a little bit. A little sting, but that’s going to make it a little more challenging,” the Celtics president of basketball operations said of the disappointing cap news. “We’ll be able to fix it. We’re in foul trouble right now, but…