Jun 26, 2026 · 40 min · 10 segments
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Andrew SalopHostSo one, it was all very disorienting, right? Like that's the way to describe it.
As soon as it started to come in, because we're all watching the draft and you see the Shams hit following draft coverage, that Lamella ball is actually on the trade block.
And when Shams says there could be a potential trade with Lamella within 24 to 48 hours, you knew not only was it real, but man, this was about to get real, real fast.
Sure enough, it didn't even take really 10 hours until the Hornets pulled the trigger and send LaMelo up to Minnesota for Nas Reed, the unprotected first, the pick swaps, the seconds,
of are the Hornets going to trade LaMelo Ball conversations in the past, and it was understandable.
He had not reached the 50-game threshold in the three seasons prior to this last one where he did reach 72 games, 72 appearances.
And that was great stuff, especially for the way that they were able to perform in the second half of the season when everybody was healthy and suiting up for the Hornets.
We're having how do you build around them? How do we better this team to where we can win 50 games where the Hornets can get to a top? five spot a top four spot like this was a squad that beat Oklahoma City they beat the New York Knicks they beat San Antonio if you go look at all of the teams that they beat there were a bunch of playoff teams in there and they even destroyed some of them the win against Boston was exceptional earlier in the year so they were doing it against real competition it was okay to shoot for the stars next season with lamello on the roster use your non-taxpayer mid-level exception give you a guy that's going to be making 16 million dollars that's a good contract you can go get a good player to help facilitate everybody's needs out there all right baby let's go we got lamello we got our we got our guys hopefully we can bring kobe back that wasn't surefire but if you brought him back then you didn't have to worry about the non-lamello minutes because once he came into the fold man if Finally, finally, they had a backup point guard slash combo guard and then they move them.
I mean, it was real surprising for a guy that you've had so many trade conversations about before.
So one, it was all very disorienting, right? Like that's the way to describe it.
As soon as it started to come in, because we're all watching the draft and you see the Shams hit following draft coverage, that Lamella ball is actually on the trade block.
And when Shams says there could be a potential trade with Lamella within 24 to 48 hours, you knew not only was it real, but man, this was about to get real, real fast.
Sure enough, it didn't even take really 10 hours until the Hornets pulled the trigger and send LaMelo up to Minnesota for Nas Reed, the unprotected first, the pick swaps, the seconds,
of are the Hornets going to trade LaMelo Ball conversations in the past, and it was understandable.
He had not reached the 50-game threshold in the three seasons prior to this last one where he did reach 72 games, 72 appearances.
And that was great stuff, especially for the way that they were able to perform in the second half of the season when everybody was healthy and suiting up for the Hornets.
We're having how do you build around them? How do we better this team to where we can win 50 games where the Hornets can get to a top? five spot a top four spot like this was a squad that beat Oklahoma City they beat the New York Knicks they beat San Antonio if you go look at all of the teams that they beat there were a bunch of playoff teams in there and they even destroyed some of them the win against Boston was exceptional earlier in the year so they were doing it against real competition it was okay to shoot for the stars next season with lamello on the roster use your non-taxpayer mid-level exception give you a guy that's going to be making 16 million dollars that's a good contract you can go get a good player to help facilitate everybody's needs out there all right baby let's go we got lamello we got our we got our guys hopefully we can bring kobe back that wasn't surefire but if you brought him back then you didn't have to worry about the non-lamello minutes because once he came into the fold man if Finally, finally, they had a backup point guard slash combo guard and then they move them.
I mean, it was real surprising for a guy that you've had so many trade conversations about before.
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