Barely six minutes into his first official game in the Boston Celtics' familiar green, Gordon Hayward's season came to a crashing halt with a gruesome leg injury that some teammates compared to the infamously grisly injuries suffered years ago by Paul George and Shaun Livingston.
The void left by Hayward can't be understated, and thus, it bears asking where this leaves the Celtics and which players need to step up in his absence:
Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook gave Boston the third-best odds to win the 2018 NBA Finals during the preseason, at 10-to-1. But with Hayward gone, those odds have already dropped to 20-to-1.
-- Brendan C. Hall
