I'm ready to move on from Hayward if they can get any kind of big man help to win this season and/or next, for a few reasons.
The team can not win regarding Hayward's health. If he continues to miss games, they don't have the benefit of his play, which was excellent in 11 games so far, and they will be stuck paying another $30+ million to him next season. If he manages to get back onto the court and plays well for few months and in the playoffs, he sets himself up for another big contract, either with Boston or elsewhere, where they many not get anything back in return. Once Tatum is maxed or near maxed, the Cs will have around $100 million in three wings if they re-up GH
Add in Kemba, and they're over $130 million without paying a big.
They have enough (soon to be high cost) wing firepower in Tatum and Brown. There's no reason they can't be bumped up to 37-38 mpg the next five seasons as they grow up into their prime as two of the best five or six wings in the entire league. I'd rather have a low cost, lunch pail three and D wing to play with them and use the money that would have gone to GH elsewhere. Although the Pistons were trash, we saw last night what Brown and Tatum can do when getting a lot of touches. They will need to take 18 shots a game, and so will Kemba.
If Hayward was healthy, having three dynamite wings balling out every night would be great, especially in today's NBA where wing play is so important. They all are team oriented, play defense, and can pass the basketball. But he's not healthy, and hasn't played more than one decent stretch of good basketball, almost two and a half seasons into his big four year deal.
For future seasons, the Celtics can draft a lower cost third wing with the Memphis, or trade for one, or develop Romeo. I like the idea of an impact, rookie scale wing joining the Jays for three or four years of their prime. With the trading deadline in six weeks, GH would need to get on the court and play well for much of it to have any real trade value, except as a possible expiring deal.