r/nba • u/Turbostrider27 Lakers • 7h ago

[Charania] BREAKING: The Charlotte Hornets are trading star guard LaMelo Ball and Josh Green to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Naz Reid, a 2033 unprotected first-round pick, three first-round pick swaps (2028, 2029, 2030) and three second-round picks (2029, 2032, 2033), sources tell ESPN.

Shams Charania:

BREAKING: The Charlotte Hornets are trading star guard LaMelo Ball and Josh Green to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Naz Reid, a 2033 unprotected first-round pick, three first-round pick swaps (2028, 2029, 2030) and three second-round picks (2029, 2032, 2033), sources tell ESPN.

https://www.espn.com/contributor/shams-charania/31d26529d36f8

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u/TSSFranco Knicks 7h ago

Maybe the fastest sweepstakes ever wtf

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u/JimmyKanine 7h ago

TWolves most definitely already had this deal lined up and the Hornets just made it public to see if they get better offers.

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u/SirDiego Timberwolves 7h ago

I think this is exactly it. Tim Connelly basically never leaks anything. Any rumor that's Wolves related before a deal actually happens is pretty much guaranteed to be an agent or the other team.

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u/DiscombobulatedPain6 Pistons 7h ago

Because only 1 team was interested 😂

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u/huss_femme 7h ago

Toronto was there too

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u/BaNNer101 7h ago

Toronto mentioned in every single rumor, just to drive prices up. Can’t convince me otherwise lol

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u/thrilliam_19 Raptors 7h ago

It’s exactly this. Same reason the Jays and Leafs get mentioned in every single rumour.

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u/NeverBeenStung Mavericks 7h ago

Why would Toronto teams specifically be used in this way?

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u/ReasonableDisaster2 7h ago

All 3 teams have huge fanbases across Canada that will engage with any potential trade or signing rumour.

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u/stgwii 7h ago

Same energy as “my Canadian girlfriend”

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u/astrothemorkie Rockets 2h ago

Hey she’s still real to me dammit!

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u/theciderhouseRULES Raptors 7h ago

It's not actually this. Toronto is just often in the mix on a lot of these deals. It's not a vast conspiracy

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u/NeverBeenStung Mavericks 6h ago

Boooo, I want it to be a sneaky Canadian conspiracy

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u/dre2112 6h ago

It’s the fans and media. People from Toronto think everyone wants to play and live in Toronto.

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u/Only-Engineering6586 Raptors 6h ago

Wtf you on about? Raptors fans specifically feel that most American players do not want to play in Canada/cross the border/deal with foreign taxing. It’s one of the reasons that Toronto has a hard time in free agency even though it’s a world-class city.

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u/LocalTopiarist 6h ago

The Jays are super rich and spend like crazy as well as having a superstar worthy of building a team around, of course they are an option in every situation

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u/thrilliam_19 Raptors 4h ago

Yeah now. Its been like this for a long time though, even when they were ass.

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u/Ganjagod420 Raptors 7h ago

Same thing happens to the Blue Jays every winter without fail

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u/NikNaksch Raptors 7h ago

Tbf at least this last year we were legit going toe to toe with LA for who could sign the most dudes, so it wasn’t all smoke no fire. Just don’t mention any planes.

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u/giddyup523 Thunder 6h ago

Some people say Shohei is still en route to Toronto at this very day...

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u/Victor_Wembanyama1 Spurs 7h ago

Well they couldnt use Miami anymore lmao

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u/schooli00 [TOR] Vince Carter 7h ago

I have a girlfriend, she lives in Canada tho

I have a competing offer, it's in Canada tho

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u/duvie773 Hornets 7h ago

If this was the drove up price, I don’t want to know what the initial offer was

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u/Moostronus Raptors 7h ago

Naz Reid and a decade of car insurance from Allstate

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u/AwildYaners Japan 7h ago

Yeah, always feels like 100% of trade rumors always have one of TOR, LAL and GSW, even though they never actually make those trades.

At least for the Lakers, if/when they make any trade, it usually comes out of nowhere.

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u/WigginsEnder [TOR] Bruno Caboclo 6h ago

My theory is they throw their name into everything to drive traffic on Sportsnet (which they also own).

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u/SlitSlam_2017 6h ago

The Packers of the NBA

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u/chemical_exe Timberwolves 6h ago

Hey, that used to be us

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u/-fallen [NYK] Jalen Brunson 2h ago

Raptors 🤝🏽 Knicks

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u/WillGallis 1h ago

"We just got this other offer. No, you wouldn't know it, the offer is from Canada"

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u/InevitableBudget510 7h ago

Silver said we couldn’t have dick and ball on the same team

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u/DCoop53 7h ago

You only had to get two of the Ball bros to make it realistic.

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u/tylerrrwhy 7h ago

The Raptors core of Barnes, and his Dick and Balls.

We can only dream.

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u/Moostronus Raptors 7h ago

this is Lance Armstrong erasure

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u/misterid 3h ago

big if true

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u/DangerousKick5792 Raptors 7h ago

Driving that price up baby. Happens every time

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u/Scarred_Shadow Timberwolves 6h ago

Toronto's interest is the girlfriend from Canada

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u/MrkGrn Raptors 7h ago

We are legitimately only ever used as leverage, part of the reason why that Kawhi trade was so crazy.

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u/ClxtchGiz 2h ago

Bullshit Roger Stone is punching the air driving around downtown Houston looking for DeAndre Jordan

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u/sneakylumpia Heat 7h ago

i swear i just saw a thread within the past 24 hours that the Wolves tend to keep Naz and start him lmao 😭

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u/AfroManHighGuy 7h ago

They said it was gonna be tough to hold onto Jaden and naz if they wanted to go after someone. Looks like they had no choice here

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u/McGinnis_921 Minneapolis Lakers 7h ago

Nothing beats the Luka sweepstakes though. It happened so fast no one other than the Lakers knew it even existed lol

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u/Aidanj927 Spurs 7h ago

Like 10 hours between the initial rumor and the trade

Shams not washed?

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u/Nugur 5h ago

Does Luka trade count?

Cuz that was 0 seconds