Gordon Hayward will reportedly end up with the Charlotte Hornets after all.
ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski first reported Saturday — and multiple others soon followed — that Hayward has agreed to a four-year, $120 million contract with the Hornets. The deal comes six years after he signed an offer sheet with them as a restricted free agent, which the Utah Jazz matched.
Hayward’s contract comes after he opted out of the final year of a four-year deal he signed with the Boston Celtics in the summer of 2017. He was named an NBA All-Star earlier that year, and the Jazz hoped to re-sign him in free agency, but he joined his college coach Brad Stevens in Boston, infamously announcing his decision on the evening of July 4.