Gordon Hayward
Hayward, one of 16 finalists for Team USA, at the 2014 World Basketball Festival.
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| No. 20 – Utah Jazz | |||||||||||||
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| Position | Small forward | ||||||||||||
| League | NBA | ||||||||||||
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March 23, 1990 Indianapolis, Indiana |
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| Nationality | American | ||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) | ||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 226 lb (103 kg) | ||||||||||||
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| High school | Brownsburg (Brownsburg, Indiana) | ||||||||||||
| College | Butler (2008–2010) | ||||||||||||
| NBA draft | 2010 / Round: 1 / Pick: 9th overall | ||||||||||||
| Selected by the Utah Jazz | |||||||||||||
| Playing career | 2010–present | ||||||||||||
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| 2010–present | Utah Jazz | ||||||||||||
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| Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |||||||||||||
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Gordon Daniel Hayward (born March 23, 1990) is an American professional basketball player for the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball at Butler University for two seasons where he led his team to a runner-up finish in the 2010 NCAA Tournament his sophomore season. He was selected by the Utah Jazz with the ninth overall pick in the 2010 NBA draft.
Hayward attended Brownsburg High School in Brownsburg, Indiana. In his senior year (2007–08), Hayward was named first team All-State and led Brownsburg to the Indiana Class 4A state championship. In the 4A state title game, Hayward hit the game-winning layup at the buzzer to defeat Marion High School 40–39. Hayward averaged 18.0 points, 8.4 rebounds and 3.6 assists per game as a senior.
Hayward's unusual skill set—Pat Forde, then of ESPN.com, called him "The guy who learned how to play like a guard but now has the size of a power forward"—was largely the result of his father's misconception about his future growth.
His father, Gordon Scott Hayward, is 5'10" (1.78 m), as is his mother Jody. Believing that their son was destined to be average sized, his father, according to Forde, "continually pushed his son to develop a guard's skill set." The younger Hayward's first appearance in the sports pages was not in basketball but in tennis— he and his twin sister Heather were featured in a regional edition of the Indianapolis Star when they played mixed doubles together at the Indiana State Open in 2005. Heather had already played #1 singles for their high school team, and Gordon would follow in his sister's footsteps the next year; at the time, they hoped to attend their parents' alma mater of Purdue University. Although Gordon's first love was basketball, he would later recall, "I looked at the future and figured playing basketball in college wasn't realistic." In fact, as a 5'11" (1.80 m) freshman, he seriously considered quitting basketball entirely to focus on tennis; his mother persuaded him to stay with the sport one more year.
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