00:00The trade nobody saw coming.
00:02The Minnesota Timberwolves give up their entire future
00:05to Ann-Naz Reed to go get LaMelo Ball.
00:11Right?
00:11Well, it's not actually the compensation wasn't crazy.
00:14By the way, I love the trade.
00:15I'm a huge LaMelo Ball guy.
00:17You are.
00:17LaMelo Ball did a great job this past year down in Charlotte.
00:21And now you've got a legit point guard and scorer
00:24to compliment Anthony Edwards out there in Minnesota.
00:27Now, not a lot of depth on that team right now.
00:30You have to figure that out.
00:31And Rudy Gobert becomes a huge piece now defensively,
00:36as he should have been, but really wasn't last year for the T-Wolves.
00:41But I love this trade for Minnesota.
00:43There's like three first-round pick swaps.
00:45I don't care about that.
00:46And one pick.
00:47One number one pick, obviously.
00:49And three teams.
00:49And Green also goes along with LaMelo Ball to Minnesota.
00:53So, Minnesota, a brand-new team.
00:57Yep.
00:57Julius Randle gone, obviously.
00:59Yep.
01:00Uh, Diva Chenzer not playing this year because of the Achilles injury.
01:04And now you get Nas Reed out of town.
01:06And LaMelo Ball gets to team up with Ann Edwards.
01:10And I know Ann Edwards, kind of a tweener.
01:13You could say he's a shooting guard.
01:14You could say he's a small forward.
01:16But he does have the ball in his hands a lot.
01:18Yeah.
01:18That's the best backcourt in the West.
01:20Uh...
01:21What'd he say?
01:22Yeah, I don't...
01:22I said that's the best backcourt in the West.
01:24We'll have to wait and see.
01:26You gotta wait and see.
01:27But...
01:28The Spurs have a great backcourt.
01:30Younger.
01:31Not as good as that backcourt.
01:32It's younger.
01:33But the problem is you gotta see fit.
01:35And that one question is, you have two guys who need the basketball.
01:39Very interested in how LaMelo Ball plays off the ball as a spot-up shooter.
01:44He's not playing off the ball.
01:45Well, he's gonna have to play off the ball.
01:46Ann Edwards is not gonna have to play off the ball.
01:47LaMelo Ball is a true point guard.
01:49Right, so what you just announced was, they have no future.
01:53They could win a championship.
01:55Their best player has to have the ball.
01:58And you just said that he's not gonna have the ball.
02:00When LaMelo decides to give him the ball.
02:03Therefore, Craig Carton just announced that Timberwolves have no future.
02:07I didn't say that.
02:07Did I say that, Ethan?
02:08I don't think I said those words.
02:10That's what you said.
02:10If they play it correctly, and LaMelo moves better at times without the ball,
02:15and he has been a plus three-point shooter,
02:18and makes the open looks because Ant-Man gets doubled,
02:21then absolutely they can grow and win a championship.
02:24But if the ball's gonna be mellow, mellow, mellow, mellow, mellow,
02:27it will lead to loss, loss, loss, loss, loss.
02:29I agree with you on that.
02:30It can't be what he did a lot in Charlotte, which was,
02:32it's all about me.
02:34I'm going Harlem Globetrotters, Ad-One-Tour kind of basketball.
02:38It's gonna be fast-paced.
02:40LaMelo gets the ball up the court.
02:42Look to dish to Ann first.
02:44Create your own shot second.
02:45That could be a very dangerous backcourt.
02:47In Minnesota, again, not a lot of depth.
02:51Gobert's gonna have to be a rock star on defense,
02:53but that's gonna be a very interesting team to watch,
02:55and I love what they did.
02:56I love it.
02:57I love what they did.
02:58They changed it up.
02:58They said, we are not good enough with Julius Randle
03:02as our number two option here to win.
03:05We need a legitimate scorer
03:07so that Ann Edwards doesn't have to score 35 every night
03:10in a playoff game for us to have a chance to win.
03:12You now have two, I think, generational scorers,
03:17both under 27 years old.
03:19It's gonna be really interesting to look.
03:21And also, in the East now,
03:23Charlotte actually becomes more intriguing.
03:26No, they don't.
03:26Because they now have...
03:27Stop it.
03:28Stop it.
03:28...a $40.7 million trade exception,
03:31so now they can take on a huge contract for free.
03:35Nobody wants to go to Charlotte.
03:36No one is going to Charlotte.
03:38It's a trade.
03:38It's not a free agent.
03:40The Knicks own the East right now, anyway.
03:42No, they don't own it.
03:42So, like, what Charlotte does is immaterial to me now.
03:46You'll see.
03:46The only reason to watch Charlotte was LaMelo Ball.
03:48No, it wasn't.
03:49Let's be honest about it.
03:50Who did you watch corner games for?
03:52Knipple was great last year.
03:53Oh, my nipple.
03:54Your nipple.
03:54It's a nipple, right?
03:56Knipple is dead nice.
03:57I think he's a great basketball player.
03:59Don't you do that.
03:59Don't you do that.
04:01You could have made an argument.
04:02He should have been rookie of the year instead of Cooper Flatt.
04:04Right.
04:04He played great.
04:05He had a great rookie season.
04:06But I went there to watch LaMelo Ball play.
04:08And Brandon Miller was a 20-point scorer on the wing.
04:11Because I like the vinegar and the barbecue.
04:12Brandon Miller was a 20-point scorer on the wing.
04:14You just didn't care about him.
04:15I'm honestly not worried about Brandon Miller.
04:16I don't care about him.
04:17Brandon Miller's dead nice.
04:18I don't care about him.
04:19Pause.
04:19I don't care about Brandon Miller.
04:21Why not?
04:21Because I don't.
04:22He's a good player.
04:23Because if I was going to buy a ticket last year to watch Charlotte play,
04:26I was buying a ticket to watch one dude play.
04:29Not Connie Knipple.
04:31Not Miller.
04:32Knipple is a better player.
04:33I was going there to watch LaMelo Ball play.
04:35He's a box office attraction.
04:36We'll see.
04:36He's the guy you buy a ticket.
04:38We'll see.
04:38As a basketball fan, I respect what Knipple did.
04:42He had a great rookie season.
04:43Yeah.
04:43Not a good one.
04:44A great one.
04:45That's right.
04:46Miller, great complimentary scorer off the wing.
04:4820-point scorer.
04:49Again, I'm with you on that.
04:50A young player.
04:50He's only a year three.
04:51Yes.
04:51But I don't buy a ticket to go watch those two dudes play.
04:55I do buy a ticket and spend my hard-earned money,
04:58and I don't have much of it,
05:00watching LaMelo Ball play basketball.
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