Gordon Hayward is not a free agent. Well, not yet anyway. Hayward has a very large final year in his contract with the Boston Celtics he could opt into as soon as next week. However, with the NBA financial future as cloudy as it is right now, there’s enough reason to think he could opt out to sign a deal with some security for the coming seasons or opt in and get moved by Boston anyway.
There’s a lot up in the air with Hayward yet he fills many of the gaps the Mavericks have, so here we are.