The Oklahoma City Thunder conducted their practice available to the media since the NBA Trade Deadline on Friday, as starting forward Jalen Williams and head coach Mark Daigneault commented on the Gordon Hayward trade.
Daigneault announced at practice today that Hayward would be ruled out until after the All-Star Break, something that the team knew before making the move. The Thunder bench boss wants to put the 33-year-old veteran through the team’s return-to-play protocol “as if he had been here the whole time,” which will, in turn, help him integrate into the team.
