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Chapter 1: What are the details of LaMelo Ball's trade to the Timberwolves?
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Chapter 2: Why did the Hornets decide to trade LaMelo Ball now?
So a lot of people just think... that Charlotte's front office is seeing LaMelo Ball's value at an all-time high at least over the last couple of seasons and they are selling high now you can argue with the return but they're selling high before he starts asking for the extension because LaMelo Ball has three years left on his contract
He's eligible to sign a two-year $119 million, $119, $120 million extension July 6th. So maybe this is a get out in front of it. We don't want to deal with that. Even though we, again, had our best season in years here and we liked, I think we liked what we saw with Ball and Miller and Knipple. And they're just selling high. I guess that's the reasoning here.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of the draft picks involved in the trade?
McDaniels was off limits. And then they didn't want to trade Nas Reed or Dante DiVincenzo. But obviously the Hornets are like, well, we're not doing it unless you do. I can't wait to see how close other teams were, be it my Raptors, be it the Blazers, be it a couple other teams in the mix here. Man. What else was out there?
What were people offering in terms of at least players and then sort of draft capital? I mean, it is one pick. It's one pick and then swaps, which are not nothing, but one future 2033 pick. If you're just joining us, I'll just go over it very quickly. Hornets, trading, Stargard, LaMelo Ball. I don't know if Willie Drive there. Let's hope not, right? Jesus. Well, he could. Charlotte to Minnesota.
Probably a long drive for LaMelo. He can make it in like four hours. One stop. So LaMelo Ball and Josh Green. Oh, yeah. Josh Green is here. Traded to the Wolves for Nas Reed. And then a series of draft picks. A 2033 unprotected first round pick. Three first round swaps in 28, 29, 30.
Chapter 4: How did the NBA community react to the LaMelo Ball trade?
And then three second round picks in 29, 32, and 33. But...
call it what it is it's basically lamello ball for naz reed and um yeah a lot of people here are saying what do you do with your naz reed towel that everybody got beautiful looking towel and uh you know in in minnesota colors will the hornets pr team just jump on that just do it themselves i think you got it that would look good too right in the teal the hornets teal so
Nas Reed there on Charlotte. Crazy. This is crazy. I mean, this is one of the more stunning trades, again, in recent NBA history that I can think of. Because it was just last night. We didn't hear anything. Correct me if I'm wrong. We didn't hear a single thing during our watch party for the first night of the draft. Nothing about LaMelo Ball.
Maybe some whispers that the Wolves, after the Julius Randle move, obviously, what are they up to? Is this just to save money? That's sort of gross if that's the case. Or are they doing something? So maybe there was that. But the lamella ball part of it, what? I didn't, it was just not on my radar that at this point the Hornets were thinking of training him until late last night.
And then what felt like 10 hours later, boom, he's gone. We barely, the Photoshop boys barely had time to do the jersey swaps to get LaMelo Ball in a Raptors jersey, to get LaMelo Ball in a Blazers jersey or a Rockets jersey or wherever you were going to try and trade him. They had barely time to do it.
And he was suddenly traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves here on Thursday morning, around 930 Eastern for me. I walked the dog, had a shower, and then boom, the alerts started going. Crazy, crazy, crazy stuff. I assume we're not done. The NBA is drunk. The NBA offseason is popping here. So, you know, I'll log off and then Jalen Brown will be traded, which I do believe will be happening soon.
And then we'll just be back here talking about it. Fun, fun stuff. I got a few seconds here, a few minutes to look. Look at the comments if you guys, I mean, well, there's a lot of them. There's a lot of them. Who is the winner? Again, when I jumped on and I was seeing everybody tweet about this, or at least in the comment stream team here, there was a lot of like, what are the wolves doing?
What are the hornets doing? There was a lot of like perplexed emojis or pondering emojis. Let's call it that. What is this? Nas Reed, man. Can't believe it. Did everybody drop their lowercase Nas read earlier? I hope so. You got to do it for Nas. So the Charlotte Hornets get him and LaMelo Ball to the walls. I'm a bit in shock here.
You know, I took a second to like try and get my thoughts in order and hopefully some of that made sense. This is Tim Connolly's MO, man. This guy just like, he's like, I'm not afraid to do a big move. Let's go. And it has to be, again, the part of keeping Anthony Edwards, of course, happy.
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Chapter 5: How does this trade affect Anthony Edwards and the Timberwolves?
They are going to sell a lot. Is anybody number one on the Wolves? Terrence Shannon Jr., right? Is that right? Uh-oh. Uh-oh. I'm going to assume Ball's going to want that, but I don't know. Maybe he'll go with another number. That's also in style right now after Booker did his move. Also changing from number one. We'll see. There's that. And then my final thought on the whole Wolves thing was,
Is this galaxy brain thinking of the Wolves organization going, well, okay, yeah. People are going to say, you're adding LaMelo Ball to your team in the Western Conference? Come on, man. That's not going to help you get by the Spurs or Thunder or any of these other talented Western Conference teams. And the Wolves are going, don't worry. We're going to be in the East very soon.
After expansion, we're going to the Eastern Conference. LaMelo Ball will be back home in the East and we'll have Anthony Edwards with him and we'll be fine. Even though the East is actually awesome now too. I don't know. That's a bit of a stretch, but that's where my mind went. I have a short formulating in my head about how Adam Silver loves tournaments so much, right?
Playing tournament, NBA Cup. He should just create a new one for all the Western Conference teams that To battle it out to see who can win the right to go to the Eastern conference. That's good idea. That would be fun. Right? Just, just set it up. Or maybe you can elect, I would like to be in said tournament to win our way out of this conference to the East. That would be awesome.
A little best of three series or something like that. A little home and home, you know, whatever. There you go. Free idea there for you, Silver. I know you love tournaments. Just add one more to the mix. Why not? For the final time, guys, here it is. I'll get this back up on screen.
with my arms out to the side doing wind horse style wolves get lamello josh green hornets get naz read a first round pick in 2033 three pick swaps and three second rounders i guess that's lamello in an old timberwolves jersey there a graphic i stole from espn how will we look in those new ones i'm sure the photoshop boys are already hard at work It's going to look incredible.
I mean, they were already... I mean, you're Anthony Edwards on your team. You're a league pass team. Add LaMelo Ball. That's going to be entertaining. Whether it works, it's going to be very entertaining. A ball and ant backcourt. Holy crap. And man... I don't know. I was having mixed feelings as a Raptors fan when the Raptors were being tied to LaMelo Ball.
I was like, on one hand, hmm, I don't mind it. I was starting to talk myself into it. Like, you know, I haven't been the biggest LaMelo Ball fan in his career. But I was like, oh, maybe I see the vision here. Okay, we need a pointer. We need a shooter. We need a scorer that can hit threes.
Then you put it with a bunch of defense maybe in Scottie and CMB, and I was like, I was starting to talk myself into it, especially if it was going to be like R.J. Barrett, Grady Dick, some draft picks, which the Raptors have all theirs. I was getting there, guys, but I was feeling queasy about it. It was like that pizza from draft night the other night.
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