[ad_1]
Kent Smith / Getty Images
Boston Celtics forward Gordon Hayward returned to the field on Friday night for the first time since suffering a broken ankle in his debut with the club last October.
Of course, there was rust.
"Really good to get it out of here," Hayward said after the Celtics' 104-97 pre-season loss to the Charlotte Hornets at the Dean E. Smith Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on news channels ESPN. "I did not feel like playing my best basketball, but I was having fun there and it was good to be back with the guys." have certainly had good times, bad ones. "
Hayward finished the loss with 10 points on two out of seven shots (one in five versus three), three rebounds, one assist and one block.
-
Andrew Bynum returns to the NBA
-
Kobe's hottest blows ?
-
Kyrie-I.T. Trade shook the NBA 1 year ago today
-
Dyckman's courts are the streetball's red carpet
-
Giannis younger brother could be the real "Greek freak"
-
#JamesGang You have AAU hoops on the latch ?
-
11 years ago, KG joined the Celtics
-
The LeBron School opens its doors in Akron ?
-
Embiid putting the world on a poster
-
Kobe's "Mamba mentality" in the family
-
The artist paints on top of LeBron's King of LA canvas
-
Did LeBron really skip his own pizza?
-
Watch Boogie's Seasonde Last Season
-
LeBron's 10 Best Pieces in 2017-18
-
Anniversary of 15 years of 2003 Draft
-
2 years ago, the Cavs are back 3-1
-
Outlook project following traces of the NBA
-
Giannis's off-season from the poster to the taste tester
More importantly, he went through the night unscathed.
"I've been through a lot of things over the past year, so just to be in front of the fans and play with my teammates, there are times when I did not know if I could do it. Hayward said. "So it was really a victory."
Hayward and the Celtics will be back on the show circuit on Sunday night for a showdown with the Hornets at Boston's TD Garden.
Source link
