Naz Reid + picks and swaps for LaMelo Ball + Josh Green
Feels like the Dame to Bucks last gasp type of move before Ant asks out if Melo plays less than 40 games.
Reports: Wolves land LaMelo Ball in blockbuster trade with Hornets | NBA.com
Submitted 4 hours ago by mill_city@lemmy.zip to nba@lemmy.world
https://www.nba.com/news/lamelo-ball-trade-timberwolves-2026
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darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 30 minutes ago
Yeah I think people are focusing on the upside way too much. Last year and his rookie year are the only season above 50 games played I believe.
Like it may looks great when he’s healthy but that’s going to be such a potential risk and they now pretty much no draft capital to change this team much.
TAG@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
The picks that the Hornets are getting are 2033 unprotected first-round pick, pick swaps in 2028, ’29 and ’30 and three second-round picks (’29, ’32 and ’33).
RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
Can’t believe Raps were trying to trade for Ball.
TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Hot damn, wasnt expecting this. Should improve the Wolves a great deal, they really needed a high quality distributor. Sad to see Naz go. Great player and a fun guy.
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
With both Randle and Reid leaving, they’ve traded a lot of size away, though, and it’s not like they got all that much back from the draft. It’ll be interesting to see how they handle that next season.
TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Probably see more minutes for Joan. He is really raw, but has looked good in his limited minutes. He is a young french guy we drafted who started basketball late, but seems to have grown his game very quickly. Its possible we dont need that much more size, McDaniels is an elite defender, even against PFs and we needed less people in the paint around Gobert. Randle constantly clogged everything up.
David_Eight@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I think the biggest part is it’ll take some load off of Ant. It seems like every year Ant either runs out of gas or gets injured cause he had to do everything on offense.
TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Absolutely, and a big factor in that was our lack of distributor. Now we have a guy who can get the ball to Ant in the right spot without him having to do all the work himself first.