I don’t think it’s that they WANT to trade him, it’s more like they weren’t really interested, then the offers started getting a little too good to ignore

They could design an offense around their wing shooters where the ball moves more.

He’s going to be driving on ice if he goes to either of those teams.

As a wolves fan whose office is a block from the new hornets practice facility, my personal safety is intrigued the most by this idea

Man is gonna have a stroke driving in post-game Toronto traffic 

The GM might be driving on thin ice if he makes this trade, gets nothing, and the Hornets are back to irrelevancy.

They just started building a team and core that can actually compete so why is he putting LaMelo in trade talks now?

Right? Lamelo screams of “trade as soon as you can” when he’s down. Now since no one has watched him play outside of highlights for a couple months, they think he’s a God again

Hell yeah 

The hornets ran the majority of their offense in the half court this past season…

“Selling high” like they have some kind of illustrious history.

LaMelo is a good season away from being the best Hornet/Bobcat ever.

Keep your franchise guy and build on what you have.

This. Hornets don’t want to give a Melo a Max, knowing that Brandon Miller and Kon are due for similar contracts in the future

He’s signed through 2028-29

Increasing cost-controlled deal ending at $46m in 2028-29. Must have come out of nowhere

I keep saying - more fiber!!

Why not just simply, clone ANT?! Problem solved.

Can I interest you in a 4x DPOY, 2026 first team all-defense, and future hall of famer?

I feel like that’s too small of a lineup, something charlotte already had a problem with, but maybe I’m wrong. I just assume whoever charlotte plays with at the 4 out of brandon miller and JB is gonna be undersized

no one is touching my prince

Zero chance he’s in the trade imo

First if Toronto cannot afford to trade him. Second. Lamelo is not n the block bc he’s highly paid, hasn’t really figured out how to win and is a ball dominant guy. Trade market for that type of player isnt awesome.

No, the “why” is WTF do either of these teams have that would interest Charlotte?

Toronto isn’t trading Barnes, Minny isn’t trading Ant. Nobody else on either team is remotely interesting. It’s hard to replace the playmaking that pulls this entire roster together.

Just tell him to stay off those Canadian roads

But comes with a lot of nonsense…

Him and Ant would Edwards

LeOne Ball

Go on

Taking keys away from LaMelo is a good start

I just don’t know if there’s a package out there that is good enough. His personality coupled with his injuries are legitimate concerns but the Hornets, as well as the Raptors and T-Wolves, have a serious lack of reliable ball handlers and playmakers outside of their All-Star.

We’ve seen the Coby White point guard experiment in Chicago and I’m a huge fan of Christian Anderson but he doesn’t have the biggest frame.

They’d have to get a treasure trove of picks and a young star with a team friendly contract for it to make sense to dismantle what you accomplished last year.

Honestly I can get selling high on him, I just think that with 3 years left that surely they can find a better trade partner than the Raptors and Twolves.

On one hand, this should’ve been what the Grizzlies did before Ja became completely washed.

On the other It’s still scary to trade your star after literally having your best season in years.

Makes a ton of sense to trade him, but definitely not for gobert or someone like that.

First time in 4 years he played over 50 games, off the court issues and he’s probably going to ask for the 60m/year extension.

If the raptors can make the money work with cmb + multiple frp that’s a very tempting offer.

Even if they know something we don’t that justifies trading him…surely they can get a better deal?? I know we don’t know the details but with 3 years left on his deal, they can basically send him anywhere. Not sure what Toronto or Minny has to offer.

That team would be at best a first round exit. Rudy brings so much more than LameLo. Even offensively, Rudy somehow has significantly better post season stats.

truth.

Yeah this is a bunch of nothing to me. Of course teams without a good PG want lamelo.

I agree lol your positions of need are filled by either guys who the Raptors have so far made untouchable (Scottie, CMB) or are Jakob “bag getter” Poeltl

Ingram would just clog up your offence with ISO possessions for no reason

Funny enough Jordan finally left a few seasons ago and we are finally actually looking better now than what he was doing.