Comfortably relaxing in a courtside chair that goes for hundreds of dollars once the Fiserve Forum doors open up, Gordon Hayward is a picture of peace.
His warmup routine with his Charlotte Hornets teammates is complete and he’s soaking up the final seconds. While a few were still out on the court shouting at each other in their brotherly joking manner, hoisting a few more jumpers as they talked trash, Hayward is just cooling out.
Before getting his latest opportunity to play against Milwaukee in front of his mother and father, who drove up here just off the shores of Lake Michigan from their Indiana home, he engages in a chat about how his second season with the Hornets is going after signing his mega deal a little over a year ago.