Gordon Hayward‘s wife has accused the Hornets of failing to protect injured players, writes Bryan Fonseca of The New York Post. Robyn Hayward criticized the franchise via her Instagram account.
Shams Charania of The Athletic reported Friday night that Gordon Hayward has suffered a fracture in his left shoulder that will keep him out indefinitely. Robyn Hayward pointed out that the team called it a left shoulder contusion, which isn’t nearly as serious.
“He actually has a fractured scapula… that they had him play with last game… that’s why he couldn’t move his arm up in the last game,” she wrote. “… Everyone who knows Gordon knows he has one goal and that’s to win and play the right way, he’s the most truthful player/person you’d find. If he’s not going to play it’s for something more than a bruise.”
Robyn promised to “stop there and not get into prior things,” but she shared the story of another Hornets player who had a similar experience.
“I’m over them not protecting players. Just was talking with a young player’s mom, and she was saying the same thing,” she added.
Injuries have been a recurring problem for Hayward since he suffered a fractured tibia and dislocated ankle in 2017. He played 44 and 49 games in his first two seasons with Charlotte after being acquired in a trade and has appeared in 11 so far this season. He’s making a little more than $30MM this year and has one season left on his contract at $31.5MM.
Gotta be Lamelo’s mom, lol
Gordon Hayward has probably been the worst contract in Charlotte history due to injuries, also these are all grown men, if this dude played…..he’s scared to stand up for himself and his wife has too on Instagram hahahahaha I will never respect sir weakness again
Who cares who you have or don’t have respect for? The woman can say whatever she wants.
Literally sounds like Brenda Warner.
No one compares to Brandon Morrow, a successful baseball relief pitcher who injured himself whilst removing his trousers, and never pitched in the major leagues again.
Adam Eaton once missed a couple of months due to stabbing himself accidentally while opening a CD package. It was never disclosed which CD he was unpacking.
Or John Smoltz, who had to get treatment for minor burns when he decided to iron his jersey while he was wearing it,
“Was just talking to a young player’s mom…”
What’s this, AAU now?
Since 2003, when has it not been…
Reading The Breaks Of The Game right now and seeing this fracture and the complaints of a misdiagnosis reminds me of Bill Walton and his foot injuries. Walton was obviously much better and the stakes of playing through his injuries in Portland were much higher, but that relationship got very ugly very quickly and ended with Walton going to San Diego. Wonder how bad this will get for Hayward and Charlotte’s relationship.
As an aside, it’s fun to think about how Walton’s situation would have played out if there had been social media in 1979.
Billy Ray Bates in the house!
His contract has been an absolute disaster for the team and they have openly tried to trade him, not sure the relationship could deterioate much further.
Karen Hayward soccer wife extraordinaire
Not sure she’s a Karen for complaining about a complete misdiagnosis of a very serious injury. People are allowed to be mad about reasonable things.
That’s not even what misdiagnosis means. Fractures being missed is a very common occurrence. I’ve had 2 myself.
Have your fractures been misdiagnosed by multimillion NBA franchises with tons of technology at their disposal?
Please sit down.
As Gordon’s wife’s sister’s third-coisin’s mailman’s dog I can confirm.
Hornets have had their run of underachieving. Sooner or later the decision makers need to be culpable. Regardless of Hayward’s wife, Hornets screwed up here. Should have never played with a fractured scapula. Pretty irresponsible with a guy like Hayward. Kupchak is 1,000 times better than the Cho/Jordan years, but this was being asleep at the FO wheel, and not valuing the most expensive investment on the roster.
Things ALWAYS work out quickly and for the best when the wife or father takes to social media to whin..I mean complain about the mistreatment of their poor husband or son by whoever.
They have to just tear this team down. But Jordan is too proud to admit he was wrong. Just keep Richards, Williams, Jones and Ball. They have a lot of pieces that can help other teams. PJ Washington, Terry Rozier, Gordon Hayward, Cody Martin, Plumlee are all useful to good teams.
Gordon has negative trade value, they would have to take on another bad contract or attach picks.
This dude is a straight clown
Why?
Guys sit out 6-8 weeks today because of a hangnail.
If Heyward couldn’t lift his arm and still played, that’s just as much on him, too., imo
He just trusted a bad medical staff. That part is on him (kinda). But the treatment, both medical and emotional, was totally unfair cuz they know he’s such a gritty gamer and the team needed him out there and so they took advantage of his desire to help the team!
Yeah let’s clown a guy who gets hurt. Real fans here …….
This is another really bad look for Charlotte, but if it’s true the franchise deserves the heat. It’s been one thing after another, from being cheap with assistant coaches to possibly now having incompetent medical personnel. And at some point Jordan needs to take ownership of this mess and become very hands off because he’s just not good at the management side.
Kenny Atkinson dodged a bullet!
Once your wife or mom get involved it’s over for you