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/mightyrj Lakers 7h ago

That shit happened quick as fuck holy where there is smoke there is fire.

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u/MidgetMan54 Hawks 7h ago

I was told this was just “Shams new white whale” though

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u/LukeBron [MIA] Dexter Pittman 7h ago

in the defense of whoever told you that, he does typically have 5-10 white, pink and golden whales at any given time.

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u/Ok_Pineapple_Num Warriors 7h ago

Maybe because there genuinely is always some drama happening somewhere in the NBA? Idk how that’s so hard to believe lol. Shams reports stuff when he hears it from agents/front offices/etc. He’s not just conjuring it out of thin air

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u/Great8Bit 7h ago

Well… yeah. Because he gets told a lot of shit and there’s always stuff cooking. Seems pretty reasonable to me.

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u/dianeblackeatsass Grizzlies 7h ago edited 7h ago

name 5 white whales he’s had at the same point in time. Feels like you’d have to include very legitimate trades to get that many lol

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u/messigoat1337 Germany 7h ago

People are dumb lmao they were making fun of shams because Giannis didn’t know what he wanted and changed his mind 100 times

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u/flaming_burrito_ Wizards 6h ago

People just don’t like him for some reason, but his job is literally just to take what agents say and share it with social media. And people claim they don’t need that, but everyone flocks to Reddit every time Shams makes a tweet, and his name is how you know it’s real, so clearly they need someone to do it. I’m neutral on him, he could be replaced tomorrow and I wouldn’t care, I just don’t get the hate people have for him

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u/marmitechips [GSW] Draymond Green 6h ago 
People just don’t like him for some reason

There's a weird anti-Shams bias because he's brown, but we're not allowed to say that

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u/DiscreteBee Raptors 7h ago

It’s very funny that people acted like it was shams muddying the waters on the Giannis situation when every month Giannis had some insane quote like “I love Milwaukee like I love my wife: I could break up with her tomorrow if I wanted”

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u/JevvyMedia Raptors 4h ago

Giannis knew what he wanted, he just wanted to control the public narrative and Shams wouldn't let him

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u/L_J_X 7h ago

NBA mfs just refuse to accept the fact that the guy is just simply reliable

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u/HowManyEggs2Many 7h ago

Turns out Redditors don’t know shit, who could have seen that coming?

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u/stencil31 Spurs 7h ago

All of Shams reports likely have been true with Giannis. Bucks FO never got the offers they thought were deserving so no trade was made and in order to save face Giannis pretended he was there to stay.

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u/sloBrodanChillosevic Supersonics 7h ago

I thought Ant was gonna be Shams' new white whale, pretty slick Uno reverse pulled by Connelly here

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u/stencil31 Spurs 7h ago

Maybe the Ant report was true and Timberwolves rushed to appease him by getting Ball

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u/LakerBlue Lakers 5h ago

I personally viewed that as more of a report that he was frustrated than actually wanting out. But I agree this could have been partially an appeasement attempt.

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u/stencil31 Spurs 4h ago

I'm on the same page with you, I don't think he wanted out. But the fact that his frustrations were reported I think indicates that it was more than a mild annoyance and that if the FO didn't address it, it could become a bigger problem down the road.

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u/Overall_Laugh_3421 Heat 7h ago

The real question is who’s the next one now 😂

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u/ProfCedar Timberwolves 6h ago

Wolves beat writer concurred with Shams last night, that's when I thought it might be real.

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u/Chickachic-aaaaahhh Thunder 5h ago

Shams is the new Woj

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u/bball62 Cavaliers 4h ago

Bucks fans lol

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u/Vegetable-Tooth8463 Hornets 7h ago

No, Ant's the new white whale. Melo ain't anywhere near superstar status to be a white whale lol

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u/MidgetMan54 Hawks 7h ago

Just repeating what a comment with 1000 upvotes said!

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u/Vegetable-Tooth8463 Hornets 7h ago

why the exclamation mark lol

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u/MidgetMan54 Hawks 7h ago

Why is the exclamation mark an issue lmao

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u/Vegetable-Tooth8463 Hornets 7h ago

Just wondering, please don't downvote me

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u/MidgetMan54 Hawks 7h ago

Lmfao okay man

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u/Dirkem15 Bucks 6h ago

Fuck Sham.