multiple players in the top 10<\/a>, with Ball clocked in at No. 10, while Edwards landed at No. 5.<\/p>\n\u201cThe Charlotte Hornets are betting that we may have already seen the best of LaMelo Ball, or that the injury problems will resurface, or both,\u201d Bailey wrote. \u201cBut over the last five seasons, regardless of what you think about how he puts up his numbers, the fact is that LaMelo produces in a way we\u2019ve rarely seen.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn that stretch, he\u2019s averaged 21.8 points, 7.6 assists, 5.7 rebounds and 3.5 threes, while shooting 36.7 percent from deep.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a very real chance that Edwards, with his three-level scoring and still-developing playmaking, could be the best player in the NBA in 2030,\u201d Bailey added.<\/p>\n
In order for the Wolves to have the best pairing in the league, they need Ball to remain healthy. The fact that he\u2019s only 24 years old suggests that his prime could be on the horizon, but he needs to be available in order to make that happen.<\/p>\n
Edwards is also only 24 years old right now, meaning that the best of his career might not have arrived just yet.<\/p>\n
The Wolves have a few years to improve this core as much as possible. If they can maximize their potential, they might be NBA champions by the end of the decade.<\/p>\n
Canis Hoopus community, how do you feel about the potential Ball and Edwards have as a duo in the backcourt? Let us know in the comment section below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Minnesota Timberwolves are rolling the dice after trading for LaMelo Ball from the Charlotte Hornets earlier in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85,376014],"class_list":["post-802042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-timberwolves-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802042","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=802042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}