On behalf of my teammates and I, an entire Celtic organization,

I want to thank you guys for coming to open tonight.

I had a couple things that I was going to say tonight,

but I noticed somebody that really wants to let you guys know something,

and I'm pretty sure you guys would love to hear for him, so here we go.

What's up everybody?

I'm just going to say thank you, everyone who's having in their thoughts and prayers.

I'm going to be all right.

I heard me that I can't be there for the home opener.

I would want nothing more than to be with my teammates and, you know, walk out on that, on that floor tonight.

But I'll be supporting you guys from here and wishing you the best of luck, kill it tonight.

Thanks, guys.

Yeah, he's got to be high.

Oh, yeah.

I would hope so.

I hope he was getting a nice morphine drip.

By the way, we are at the Touch and Rich radio program.

We are in the Town Fair Attire Studios.

We were simulcast on NBC Sports Boston.

Of course, Gordon Hayward, the video they played last night at the garden before the loss to the bucks.

And according to Adrian Wojnerowski, overnight, he tweeted that Gordon Gordon Hayward is quote, unlikely to return during the 2017-18 season. That's info that Wojnerowski heard from Hayward's agent Mark Bartolstein. And they also said that, quote, we expected to make a full recovery and return to his all-star form. And as I was saying before, just because his agent says that, as an agent, I would say the same thing. That way it puts the pressure off of him getting back in any certain amount of time. And if he does happen to make it back before the season's done, then it's just like a nice little happy surprise. But no expectations. All right. Kyle Draper is from NBC Sports Boston. Hello, Kyle. Do you believe that Hayward's not coming back just based on what the agent said?

Well, he's the first person on record that's actually close to Gordon Hayward that actually gave a timetable.

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