34-year-old Gordon Hayward announced his retirement.
Gordon Hayward played for the Jazz, Celtics, Hornets and OKC teams in his 14-year career in the NBA.
I remember he had his best seasons with the Utah Jazz. After the Utah Jazz, his career started to decline.
He felt he wasn't valued anymore. He played with the OKC but was not used. Things really changed after the injury for him; it was huge and affected his role. I see him in a similar situation with Deron Williams, who was also one of the best players for the Jazz before he got injured and traded, and after that, his career started to decline. So those players who have the skills have to be careful, as injury is a hard battle to win. Only a few win against it; to name one, it's PG, who recently secured a huge contract with the 76ers.
Provably that's the reason of his retirement since for past season we can really see how his career decline after he suffer those awful injuries. But I guess its fine for deciding that since somehow he have wonderful career in NBA and provably he already think that's enough since he already achieve his dream and nothing left to take anymore. Injuries really ruin the career and performance of the players that's the reason young players should be more careful so that they won't experience those tragic incident since for sure they might experience the same issues. I also thought that that is the end of PG's career when he got seriously injured, but he show determination to bounce back and now playing good with his former team then get a good contract with Sixers which is really great for him.