This is all stupid offseason drama
be still my beating heart
Ooooooh spicy!! Still a nothing burger, but at least a spicy nothing burger.
Everyone knows in their hearts that if the hornets trade Melo, he’ll stop getting these major injuries after leaving Charlotte. And then the whole league will talk about how stupid the hornets are. It’s a part of the hornets curse.
Lamelo hasn’t followed the Hornets on Instagram in a long time so I think its all smoke
I am going to need #10 this year from Houston to make that work
No way the Lakers take Williams. They can’t, it would admit they lied on health and just realized they overpaid in the trade. I also wouldn’t on principle
No way GS makes that trade
Yeah those are horrible. As fans, those sort of trade suggestions always make us roll our eyes, but in reality, melo’s value right now isn’t great. Worth more than some of these trades, but not my much.
Agreed. I think fair value is a top 10 this year plus two of either a good player on matching salary, young asset, future unprotected #1
I don’t like any of those. Team would be worse.
Worse than the third worst team in the league?
I don’t really care about any current opinions from national media but this is kind of valid for LaMelo. Clearly we all are getting to the point where he and the team have to start deciding where this is going. It’s time we all step to the table.
Am I a carnival or a basketball player
That’s a pretty funny way to phrase it.
“The Charlotte Hornets roster is not very good.”
This may be true, but I’d like to actually see it intact before making that declaration. And I seriously doubt that Zach Roberts has watched us closely enough to make that statement based on any type of firsthand knowledge.
We did get swept by Washington last year after all. Why would we want to deconstruct a team that got swept by the wizards??
I mean we are 0 for 5 the past five years but next year is our year.
But what’s the alternative, trading away the talent we do have for pennies on the dollar and lottery protected draft picks 5 years from now? No thanks. I’d rather take my chances that at some point we will enjoy a relative degree of health and see what happens.
The Hornets would take on Dillon Brooks to match salary…
Over my dead season tickets
I think I may have asked this years ago but I want to bring it up again. We had a debate on here before about how do we build from the middle when we were on the perpetual treadmill under Jordan.
Some said that we should do what we are doing now and being terrible and accumulating draft picks. Some of us, including myself, thought we should do what Indiana and a couple of other teams like Atlanta try to do - make trades consistently to try and find the right mix of talent to compete.
The old Charlotte Hornets under Bob Bass did it that way and had success throughout the late 90s into the early 2000s before they left, so it’s been done here before.
Either way you choose, you have to have competent leadership, but in looking at the Pacers and the Thunder"s best players, they’re all not homegrown talent in small markets at all. Any thoughts?
I agree with that. However Charlotte has a history of terrible drafting and holding onto players they should let go of. The current roster highlights both of those unfortunate attributes. OKC and Indy highlights the opposite of that
This is the key. Bob Bass did not give a shit about any particular player, star or not, so if it was time to flip you, you’re gone.
I didn’t necessarily like that approach because we never kept anyone longer than 2-3 seasons at most. But the success was sustained.
The Bobcats version, they were so scared of bottoming out, even at the beginning, that anyone who showed some skill or talent got rewarded with an extension (except under Larry). And they were deathly afraid of trading for some reason, leading to purgatory hell.
New guys seem unafraid to shake things up. OKC and Pacers have been really bold in their trading. Mark Williams was pretty ballsy. I don’t think they’re looking to trade Melo, but if next years team can’t get right, I think discussions on how to flip the timeline to a youth movement (even though he’s young too) with cheaper rookie contracts will start.