Boston Celtics: 2 multi-team Gordon Hayward trades to the Indiana Pacers

With Gordon Hayward a potential trade target for the Indiana Pacers, the Boston Celtics can look to maximize his possible return in a deal with these multi-team trade scenarios.

The rumor mill has been hot all offseason with potential Gordon Hayward-Indiana Pacers scenarios, and quite frankly, they are warranted. The Boston Celtics should 1000 percent look into dealing the 2017 All-Star to his hometown team in the final year of his contract.

Let’s be realistic here, the best thing Hayward can do in 2020-21 is play so well that Danny Ainge would have to show him the money in 2021. For those that would point out the possibility of trading him at the deadline, just remember that any momentum and chemistry the team built up by the 2020-21 Cs would be squandered by a mid-season shakeup.

Now is the time to trade Hayward, and apparently the Pacers are interested, as CBS Sports writer Michael Kaskey-Blomain reported:

"Something to keep an eye on once we find out when NBA teams can start making trades: some within the Pacers organization continue to have interest in trading for Celtics’ Gordon Hayward, per SNY sources. It’s unknown what Boston would want in return for Hayward — or if the club is even open to moving him. Hayward, who starred at Butler, can become a free agent by opting out of the final year of his deal, worth roughly $34 million."

The Houdini has racked our collective brains in hopes of finding the perfect deal for Hayward to land back in the Hoosier State…and it has led us to the following three-team trades for the max-contract man: