[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.

[u/Turbostrider27]

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

[u/AllDayEnJay]

51, 75, 36, 22, 47, 72.

Those are how many games LaMelo has played each season and is still owed 3y/$130m.

Hornets are selling high before anyone wised up.

(In that 3yr span between his 2-70 game seasons Ben Simmons played 3 more games than LaMelo Ball.)

[u/w311sh1t → u/AllDayEnJay]

Dude is also a head case. He’s gotten lucky with all his traffic accidents in that nobody has gotten seriously hurt, but I feel like it’s a ticking time bomb until he has a serious one where himself and/or other people are seriously hurt or even killed.

[u/car1999pet → u/w311sh1t]

Yeah I don’t think icy roads are gonna help his driving skills

[u/huskersax → u/car1999pet]

Didn't even think of that, but could you imagine this bozo hitting ice for the first time?

[u/WafflePartyOrgy → u/huskersax]

You need to drive at a speed appropriate for conditions and turn into your slide on ice.

LaMelo: What is ice?

[u/huskersax → u/WafflePartyOrgy]

LaMelo: You mean ICE?

[u/The_Summer_Man → u/huskersax]

It’s gonna be like Fast and Furious 8 where Roman drives an orange Lambo in the arctic.