The Boston Celtics finished the 2018-19 season with a 49-33 record, which was good for fourth in the Eastern Conference. This team ended up being too congested in certain areas, forcing Jaylen Brown to take a backseat with the return of Gordon Hayward and the urgency to have Marcus Morris on the court.

On a recent podcast episode on the Podcast P with Paul George, Hayward expressed that the 2018-19 Celtics team was more a less a mess in his eyes.

“We all had too many agendas, and the agenda to win the whole thing wasn’t the main one. Not to blame anyone either because I think it was all human nature. I’m coming back from the last season I played, I was an All-Star, so I’m trying to prove that I’m still an All-Star.”

Hayward went on to say that Kyrie Irving was trying to prove that the Celtics was his “team” during a time that Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown were elevating to do the same thing.

“Kyrie was hurt the year before too, didn’t miss the playoffs. So he’s trying to prove this is still his team. Then you got JT and Jaylen and Terry who are coming off where they’re all starting to make it to the Eastern Conference Finals the year before. They’re all trying to prove like ‘we’ve arrived’.”

Hayward also went on to say that the Celtics had too many players that were in the same position group, making it too congested during the season.

“The other problem is there was too many of us in the exact same position. We all needed the ball, we all rocked with the ball.”

Hayward technically spent three seasons in Boston, with his first being cut short only five minutes into the season after breaking his ankle in the first game. He averaged 13.9 points per game on 48/35/84 shooting splits in 125 games for Boston.

The Celtics pulled off a sign-and-trade in 2020 with the Charlotte Hornets, sending Hayward to Charlotte for a conditional second-round draft pick.

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