CHARLOTTE, N.C. \u2013 The Charlotte Hornets trade superstar Lamelo Ball to the Minnesota Timberwolves sending waves of emotion and thoughts through The Hive.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think they got enough compensation. I mean, they got a couple pick swaps, but I don\u2019t think the trade was worth it. I think they\u2019re going to end up regretting it,\u201d Max Haber, basketball fan said.<\/p>\n
Ball has been with the team since 2020 and earned Rookie of the year in 2021. Recent stats show injuries had him on the bench about 40% of his time playing on the squad. Fans say they expect to see fewer people at games without ball on the team.<\/p>\n
\u201cWay less. The only time people are going to come now is when Minnesota comes into town. That\u2019s it,\u201d Chris Howard, basketball fan said.<\/p>\n
Ball is known for putting on a show on the court dropping dimes and buckets from downtown. He\u2019s notorious for speeding in his fleet of luxury cars through the streets of Uptown.
This dash cam video shows a recent crash from February.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, he was destructing the streets of Charlotte with his driving, so it is better city,\u201d Sabrina Jean Marie, Basketball Fan said.<\/p>\n
Some fans say they want to see The Hive buzzing over a new star.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that they need to bring somebody who has that energy about them and that finesse to be able to bring that attention back to the team,\u201d Angelo Kadima, Basketball Fan said.<\/p>\n
Others fans say they don\u2019t care who\u2019s on the roster, as long as the hornets can win games.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m 22. We haven\u2019t been worried about that since I\u2019ve been alive, so we need to start that trajectory,\u201d Chris Howard basketball fan said.<\/p>\n
Fans said they will be watching the franchise closely to better understand the rationale behind the trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE, N.C. \u2013 The Charlotte Hornets trade superstar Lamelo Ball to the Minnesota Timberwolves sending waves of emotion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-761027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}