Hello everyone. Welcome to first take. Shake Cornette here with you. Brian Winhorse, Vincent Goodwill, Steven A. Smith. And as you can see, we have Shams Sharanias sitting at the desk as well, which only means one thing. We have some breaking news out of the NBA. Shams, you have the floor. What can you tell us what happened this morning? The Charlotte Hornets traded lamello ball and Josh Green for a haul from the Minnesota Timberwolves. So now the Timberwolves have Anthony Edwards and Lamello Ball, the number one and number three pick in the 2020 NBA draft. But they sent Nas Reid a unprotected first-round pick, three first-shon pick swaps and three second round picks. The Hornets didn't go into this off-season saying, hey, we're going to trade Lameello Ball. He's at the peak of his value, though, and he had a great end to the season.

And the sides actually ended up having a good finish as far as their relationship.

But when teams like Minnesota, Toronto start making offers and bidding, you have to listen.

The Hornets have always been in the mindset to

listen to offers for La Mello Ball, and you think about it from the Minnesota perspective.

This is a massive swing. Tim Connolly, the president, is not a stranger for taking risks. And the

Rudy Gobert deal several years ago was a risk. That team ends up going to the conference finals with Rudy Gober.

He's impacted winning at a high level.

There's obviously not the winning history for La Mello Ball, but now you try to infuse

yourself with as much talent as you can.

They needed a point guard in the worst way in Minnesota, and they knew it.

They were going out to try to address this need for a star

player. And I think now when you spin it forward, my understanding is the Mello Ball is very excited

to go play with Anthony Edwards to try to win championships. He knows the task at hand here. The mandate

when you have Anthony Edwards is to try to win every single year. Those two guys, from my understanding, they're friends.

They've had communication in the recent past.

And when you look at it from the Hornets perspective, though,

to get the first round pick unprotected that's far out,

you get three first round swaps, you get seconds.

And Nas Reid, his ability is a two-way three-point shooter, ability to defend, play both

sides of the floor.

This is a major, major hole that gets filled for the Hornets front court moving forward.

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