The question is inevitable. Heck, sometimes it's the first thing strangers ask, even before a more formal greeting.
"How's your ankle? Are you coming back this season?"
It has been roughly 150 days since Gordon Hayward underwent surgery on the fractured ankle he suffered on opening night in Cleveland. He estimates that he has been asked about a possible return "thousands" of times, and you get the feeling that he's probably low-balling it.
If he were sick of the question and desired to make every trip out in public just a tiny bit easier, Hayward recently had the perfect opportunity to end all such inquiries.