This week’s Hardwood Houdini’s highlighted ‘Player of the Week’ for the Boston Celtics is Gordon Hayward.
At 6-foot-seven, Gordon Hayward was only a three-star recruit coming out of high school in Indiana and didn’t receive many offers from Division One basketball programs. But Hayward would accept a scholarship and spend two seasons at Butler playing under then head coach Brad Stevens.
The two would help lead the Butler Bulldogs to an NCAA Championship game in 2010. Hayward would miss the game-winning buzzer beater from half court and ended up losing to Duke. He finished his two college seasons averaging 14.