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LaMelo Ball & Anthony Edwards are TEAMMATES IN MINNESOTA ➡️ Full Hornets trade details | Get Up
LaMelo Ball & Anthony Edwards are TEAMMATES IN MINNESOTA ➡️ Full Hornets trade details | Get Up
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With breaking news from the NBA from Shams Charania who joins us here in
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studio.
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Shams, what more can you tell us about this LaMelo Ball trade?
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>> Anytime you have Anthony Edwards, you have a pressure to win,
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you have to pay to win,
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and this in LaMelo Ball is a big swing for the Timberwolves.
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Tim Connelly is no stranger to making these types of moves with some calculated
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risk.
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We saw several years ago when he went out and got Rudy Gobert,
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that's led to some playoff success.
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Now you go out and get LaMelo Ball.
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The Timberwolves felt the last couple years point guard was a major need for
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this team,
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and they actually did look into LaMelo Ball a couple times over the last
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uh season,
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but they finally get him now.
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This is a high price.
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LaMelo Ball is at the peak of his value at at this point,
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and last night uh near the end of the the second round,
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I started hearing that they were going to be moving potentially LaMelo Ball
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because not that they were shopping him,
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but they were getting several teams inquiring, reaching out, making offers.
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Minnesota, Toronto, there were others as well.
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So, Charlotte didn't start this off season saying we're going to trade LaMelo Ball,
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but the offers just got so rich as we see here,
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and there was always a sense if it got to that point,
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the Hornets would not be afraid to move on.
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He's beloved there, but this price getting Naz Reid,
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a unprotected first-round pick that's far out, three first-round pick swaps,
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and three second-round picks,
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and Naz Reid fills a major hole on the front court for the Hornets.
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They've been searching for a big man in the marketplace over the last few
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weeks,
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and you get Naz Reid, he plays both ends, can shoot the three,
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and for all the chatter about the spending of the Timberwolves,
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we saw them dump Julius Randle for basically nothing.
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Mark Lore and Alex Rodriguez, their owners,
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now enter the luxury tax with this trade for the third straight year.
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They get LaMelo Ball,
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Anthony Edwards reunited because they were the number one
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and number three picks in the draft.
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Ant went number one, LaMelo Ball went number three in 2020.
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>> Yeah, there's a couple of things that are leading to this decision.
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Okay, first off, Jaden McDaniels was awesome for the Timberwolves in this playoff run
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they just had.
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This expands the role for him.
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This is opens up a lane for him that they put him alongside.
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In Charlotte's situation, the sort of depressed star point guard market is tough.
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We saw last year the the Hawks struggled to be able to trade Trae
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Young.
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They finally found a deal for him.
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Ja Morant has not been able to be traded.
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LaMelo Ball because of the injuries over the previous couple of years,
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it would be very difficult to move a player of his size of his
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contract.
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Not just because of the injury issues and whatever.
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So many teams have their star point guards
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and we just saw a whole biased basket of teams draft potential future star
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point guards.
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There's not a big market
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and a big lane to move a star to to to move a highly
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paid star point guard.
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This for Charlotte to see this avenue,
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even if they're on the fence 50/50, they have to go for it.
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>> They strike while the iron was hot.
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>> Yeah, and they also have the replacement already sit there,
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Coby White who they traded for last year.
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I know Coby White and LaMelo are very different players,
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but this leans into the guys that they still have.
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They now are in position to have financial flexibility to pay Brandon Miller
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and Coby White alongside Kankin Apple.
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>> I want to bring in Tim McMahon on this.
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Tim, what's what's your reaction to this move?
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>> I mean, this is obviously a move about trying to make Anthony Edwards
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fully confident that he has a runway to contend in Minnesota.
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And it it was costly honestly not even
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as much in the return for the trade,
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but as Sham said, in the money, in the in the luxury tax.
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And there is massive risk involved here.
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LaMelo Ball, as talented as he is,
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has not proven to be a consistent superstar in this league.
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He's not proven to be able to stay healthy.
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He's not proven to be able to deliver
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when his team's season is on the line.
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The Hornets have been in the play-in
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and they have melted down
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and not been able to to punch their tickets to the playoffs.
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The difference now is he's got a certified killer alongside him in the backcourt.
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It is still Ant's team.
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They need LaMelo to come in and enhance that, not lead it.
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>> Bobby, what does this do to the financials
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and in in the future of these teams?
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>> Well, Towns made a good point regarding the the Timberwolves' finances
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because when the the original trade happened
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So,
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this trade is part of the Brooklyn
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and Chicago trade that sends Julius Randle to the Nets,
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Nick Claxton to Chicago.
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When the original trade happened, everybody was up in arms, like, "Wait a minute.
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What is this a salary cap dump?"
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And And it's a lesson.
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There's always a part A, B, C, D to trades.
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So, now you take back basically the equal salary of what you're sending out,
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and you resign IO, and now you're you're heading towards a luxury tax.
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Now, the big question for Minnesota is when we're getting into free agency.
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Now, how do you replace the two bigs?
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That That's going to be their goal here.
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You lose two bigs in a conference where size matters.
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We saw it throughout the draft here.
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You're looking at Oklahoma City and San Antonio, who have big lineups here.
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And um that's going to be the hard part
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as far as filling out the the filling out those roster spots
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that are now that are now open here.
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But this is a This is a big swing.
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>> Windy, we've we've spent part of the morning talking about the popularity of
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LaMelo Ball.
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And the analogy that I come up with is Bitcoin.
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There is a popularity,
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and then there is a practicality element with
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that and perhaps with LaMelo Ball from a basketball perspective.
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Top shoe in the game, top shoe in the market.
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Your kids love them, my kids love them.
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But as for a basketball fit in Minnesota, enough basketball to go around.
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>> Got to get to our bosses.
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We got to get the Timberwolves on national TV
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as much as we possibly can.
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Because the ability to see Ant and LaMelo play together,
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at the sheer entertainment value we're going to have, going to be fascinating.
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After Karl-Anthony got traded,
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there were so many nights that Ant was so frustrated with the double teams.
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They used to double team him when he came out of the tunnel, okay?
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And he was sometimes scoring against,
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you You it was almost amazing what he was able to do against double-teams.
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They didn't have a reliable release valve
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because Karl-Anthony Towns is no longer there.
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So, how do you go get a star-level player who can hit those three-pointers?
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That is what they've done here.
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I'm sure Minnesota feels like they bought low on the metal.
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Maybe the rest of the league doesn't,
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but they figure this is a guy who can score 40 alongside him.
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He can hit He'll probably have number of games next year where he hits
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six-plus three-pointers.
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We're going to see that.
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To be able to get
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that level of talent They probably think this is exactly the type of thing
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to energize Ant Edwards going into next season.
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>> LaMelo Ball didn't want a trade out of out of Charlotte.
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He wanted to be in Charlotte,
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but I think when you see the way he played this year to finish
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the year,
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how strong he played,
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this was the peak of his real value
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that we've seen it at the NBA level.
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And the Hornets didn't go into this offseason saying we're going to go trade
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him,
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but they they were open.
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And this at the end of the day is an organizational decision.
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When you look at the haul they got, it it's it's a big one.
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And behind the scenes what was going on the last 24 hours is uh
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there were multiple teams.
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Timberwolves, others that were not only pursuing LaMelo Ball, but Jaylen Brown.
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So, there was an overlap of teams pursuing both players,
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and then you figure out what's the risk, what's the reward, what's the price,
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and that's the game
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that goes on when you're in the front office
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as as Bobby knows about.
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Um and a source close to LaMelo Ball tells me now
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that he is excited to go to Minnesota,
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and he wants to team up with Ant bad to try to win some
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championships.
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>> This is actually a great opportunity for LaMelo.
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Uh he's going to need some snow tires on those sports cars.
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This is a great opportunity for him.
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He should be excited about this.
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And look, Minnesota tried to get Kevin Durant a couple years ago.
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They tried to get Giannis Antetokounmpo, as Bobby mentioned uh earlier.
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They've been trying to make this move for what this type of move for
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a while.
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Now they delivered to Ant Edwards.
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>> Tim McMahon, final word is all yours.
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>> Yeah, Minnesota's been swinging for a star.
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They didn't have the assets to go get one at the, you know,
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an All-NBA player.
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They had the assets to pull this off.
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And as far as the fit with LaMelo, are there enough balls going around?
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Let Let me just point out the thing
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that he does best isn't shoot threes,
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isn't score.
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The thing he does best is pass the ball.
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So, I I think the fit with him
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and Ant will be fine
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as long as he is healthy
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and on the floor.
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