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Patrick Kinahan: Former All-Star's NBA career has languished since leaving Utah

Patrick Kinahan: Former All-Star's NBA career has languished since leaving Utah

Generational wealth and not much by way of accomplishment on the basketball court basically has defined his seven seasons since Gordon Hayward left the Utah Jazz. At 34, Hayward has been banished to the end of the bench for the Oklahoma City Thunder. In the second-round series that OKC lost to the Dallas Mavericks, he played a total of 15 minutes spread over three of the six games. Mirroring his career away from the Jazz, the playoff run did not go as he and probably the Thunder preferred.