This is total fucking bullshit.

His ankle will explode once you go 23-4 to start the season.

Fucking nephews man.

Is this some sort of  reverse jinx tactic 😂

Lebton Iced Tea will be the Hornets savior

Adam Hitler will make sure that Hornets don’t get the “next LeBron” in 2033. NBA hates the Charlotte Hornets franchise and Hornets fans.

Minnesota sports fans are nothing if not professional victims

Nah, charlotte drafts the next Kobe, and immediately repeats history, giving him away to the lakers for a washed up 35 year old Austin reaves and a pack of toothpicks.

You forgot where Charlotte trades next LeBron for more picks, or let’s him walk after his rookie contract. 

Brother. Your curse has nothing on the CHARLOTTE HORNETS CURSE.

We won 7 games and was given MKG as penance. We drafted Kobe and SGA.
Our all time team wouldn’t win the finals.

Y’all will benefit from our curse.

First round exit to the jazz at the hands of darryn peterson

Charlotte’s also been terribly run, historically. Sl if it’s any consolation they’ll probably draft the next Anthony Bennett with your pick, if anything.

“Charlotte overachieves” is the most unrealistic expectation I’ve ever heard.

In 2024 ESPN wrote an article about how cursed Minnesota sports fans are. I’ll link it. Beware: it’s brutal. Link

i agree ant is destined to demand a trade to toronto

Anyways. Are yall taking Norway’s celebration or not?

You’re projecting all this good fortune for the Hornets, but the Timberwolves have won more playoff series in the last 3 years than the Charlotte basketball franchise has in their entire history

OP is a Nuggets fan…manifesting

This post is good karma

Keep the doomposting to the Vikings sub wolfbro. It’s a new era for Minnesota and the Timberwolves. Getting rid of Julius Ranlde means the team will win a ring in a year or two, book it. That’s data driven, you can see the proof in all of his past teams (I will not look into this).

Keep your Vikings pessimism off of my wolves

new player’s ankles explode on opening night

hahaha can you imagine, how would a fanbase even react to something like that haha

I just feel solidarity in seeing someone who’s also convinced LaMelo is gonna have some season ending injury opening night 

Hornets curse 🤝 Timberwolves curse
unstoppable force vs immovable object

Idk who the original Lebton was, but he mustve been pretty good to make the list

As a life long hornets fan I can tell you that lamelo will never miss another game and becomes a HOF

Then Charlotte immediately trades the next LeBron to the lakers

dang I think this team will compete in year two. lámelo is a special talent and he responds to challenge… I think ant will bring out the best in lámelo . that and having gobert rostered will make this roster out up some great games against okc and the spurs. but I know the doomers are always out in full force.

The problem is charlotte has never been successful. That franchise has bad luck.

I was almost ready to buy in until you said that Charlotte gets the next LeBron (or Lebton) in 2033. The Ping Pong Balls of Fate would never allow that to happen

See: 2012 where we lost out on AD despite the worst record in NBA history, 2025 where we had a tied for best chance at Flagg with 14% to get jumped by Dallas and their 1.8% chance and then also fell to 4th, and 2023 where we came up just short in the Wemby lottery

God I hope so. I’m so tired man.

Minnesota is in a pretty long title drought amongst the Big 4, but this is particularly doomerism

The first Lebton passed in obscurity, but the next one will hit.

Why would you want the next Bron?

You should want the next Steph or MJ

I’m seeing a future where Charlotte sees the next LeBron, but picks the next Divacs instead.

Well as long as yall got Lebton then you’re good.

You know the real Minny curse is what happens to their PFs after trading them away. KG, Love, KAT, now Reid. Charlotte might be a future champ

Nah, Charlotte is way too snack-bitten and poorly run to draft the next LeBron and win a championship. They’ll definitely trade that pick for another Terry Rozier or Kemba Walker-type player and then whatever team they traded it to (likely OKC or San Antonio) will draft the next generational player who will lead them to a championship.

What you said about Minnesota will still happen though, sorry

I can already see LaMelo and Ant being a failed experiment and Ant demanding a trade or leaving in FA and somehow end up on the Lakers

It’s all jokey jokes till you realize Lamelo ball is worse than street clothes legend AD, much credits to the Hornets for fleecing.

This trade is so weird like do the wolves really think melo is the difference

Chill

Eeyore?

Hehe. 100% true

This is the 2026 version of “Stop calling my team spooky”

This might speak to you but as Marseille fan (soccer, French league) I know exactly what you are talking about and feel for you.

This hurt to readd bro but it make me laugh😂

Most of that made since but lmao thinking Charlotte will get to draft a generational talent even with someone else’s pick

Take it from a knicks fan, you only know until you don’t

Atlanta couldn’t win with just CJ so they drafted Flemings.

Detroit couldn’t win with just Cade so they tried to get Reaves and are still trying I assume to get someone.

Houston was useless without FVV even though Fred’s not that great.

People love signing and drafting their wings but they think of point guards as shameful to acquire.

Maybe they gave up too much size, but they had to get a Lamelo type player and it was probably him or Ja.

Even Washington has a chance because they have Trae, AJ and AD.

Trae is flawed, but necessary to activate AD and AJ.

Cleveland had to get Harden because Garland was hurt

The Knicks had to use Alvarado because they were low on shot creators.

If you can’t draft a PG, it was either “Zombie” Mike Conley as Bill Simmons calls him or Lamelo.

It was the right call imo. Ayo is good but can’t run an offense.

I lose sleep thinking about the next Lebton.

Ah, I see you also live a life of “low expectations”

Charlotte will forever suffer from the curse of the pleats

You forgot the Wolves relocating to LA where they become a dynasty.

ESPN lives rent free in your head

bro charlotte not that lucky

His ankles explode like Kyle’s knees from South Park

Where can Ant realistically go?

Forgot to add the unnecessary max extension for Gobert right before all this. His knee will explode as well.

• Ant lists the Spurs as the only destination he wants. Wolves has to accept Fox in a trade.

being a heat fan, i know that feeling all too well. every big trade feels like it could go either way until it actually plays out. the difference is spo and the culture give us some faith — minnesota doesn’t really have that safety net. lamelo in minny is gonna be must-watch regardless though, for better or worse

naz wins a chip in the next couple of years

Lamelo’s ankle explodes, the ankles then blind Ant.

IMO, this feels like a worse team than 3 years ago (when Towns was there).

It feels like a worse team than the past 2 seasons (Naz/Donte/Randle)

And not only that, LaMelo has been pretty injury-prone.

So already a worse team (won’t have Donte all season) and an undisciplined and injuryprone LaMelo

Nets fan here. I understand this.

when you say explode…do you mean like flames, smoke, booms? and will they both simultaneously combust together or will 1 go and while hes walking off the court with a towel over his head, the other gives out?

I hope the next Lebron gets drafted in 2031 with that unprotected Wolves first.

Charlotte drafts the next Lebton with our unprotected first in 2033

Nah, Charlotte will deal that pick for someone like Derrick White or Austin Reaves and then that pick will turn into the next LeBron

Wolves fans should be hyped about their new team, let the new medical staff get Melo right.

A brand new environment on a serious playoff team and a dawg in Ant Man will elevate LaMelos game. Playing in Charlotte is not serious

Boo this man

>Charlotte drafts the next Lebton with our unprotected first in 2033

This part will never happen

Dude, go back to worshipping the Vikings. We don’t need this shit. We especially don’t need you spilling this out on r/nba and showing them what our pathetic NFL team’s existence does to people’s brains.

Slightly related - but sports fandom breeds so many lame pessimists. Every year 29 teams lose so whatever happens they get their confirmation bias that their team is cursed or whatever no matter how it plays out 

Most rational Wolves fan

Get Kevin from Minnesota again. He’s old, but it can’t hurt at this point

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If i name my child “Lebton” and teach it to basketball to fulfill this mans prophecy, do I win the sub?

Sir, this is a Wendy’s

Fans are always way too optimistic, but realistically things can go much worse than you’re describing

And trades that next LeBron to the lakers for a washed player, as is tradition

TWolves moved to Hammond, IN as part of their “move to the eastern conference”

That is a little bit too drastic for MN sports. The MN way would be more like the Wolves just continue being decent for another few years but never win a title and Ant leaves and wins one immediately.

Lamelo makes double teaming Ant a bad move. These two are gonna cook and Min is the new most fun team to watch. You should be more excited 

Hot take this kinda fandom is so toxic and the worst sports discourse. Motherfuckers get pre-depressed and just bring bad vibes all around.

More likely he tears a ligament running around on ice like a dumbass

If hornets trade away the women beater Miles Bridges, I’ll def be rooting for them just for the memes if another team wins a championship after getting a player from the Timberwolves lol

I think it’s just easier to listen to Hüsker Dü and be a Lakers fan.

Of course that’s going to happen. This is Minnesota. What other option could there possibly be?

This is step one of Ant coming home to Atlanta hahahaha let’s goooooo

I wouldn’t worry. Charlottes waaayyyy more cursed than you are.

- one of the Timberwolves stars next year will choke the coach à la Latrell Sprewell?

This is wrong on so many levels. He’ll get into a car accident and be out for the year.

Still feeling that sting from the Hershel Walker trade I see

You forgot about Nas winning MVP

MN is historically like pretty good at sports outside of the Timberwolves. But once the playoffs begin the entire team forgets how to walk or move.

So no chance of LaMelo getting into a vehicular incident on the icy streets of Minneapolis then…

Cant wait to see the next Lebton

Don’t forget the spurs drafting the next Tim Duncan with that juicy 2031 (30?) Pick

As a lifelong Charlotte sports fan, your tortured sports fan magic is cancelled out by my tortured sports fan magic…nice try tho

I’m sorry but this is absolute loser mentality please learn to stop embracing it

This is exactly what the Hornets are envisioning

Ok doomer.

i can tell you aren’t a lifelong charlotte sports fan

You almost described the last year for the pacers

I got Ant going to the GsW in a trade.

You forgot

- Somehow makes it to the playoffs. Faces Denver. Beats Denver as usual

Denver is such a pussy ass bitch match up vs Minnesota.

I mean you made the WCF twice in the last three years? The Rudy Gobert trade that everyone thought would be terrible…hasn’t been?

No, no. Wolves will be legit. Hornets will struggle. Ant and Lamelo will be better match than anyone expected. They will come to playoffs hot making WCF by destroying either Spurs or OKC.

And then what you described will happen. Anyway Hornets will be the first champions in history from play ins.