LaMelo Ball wants out of Charlotte
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🗓️ 21 November 2025
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Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni react to the reports of LaMelo Ball being unhappy in Charlotte and how Tyrese Maxey has taken an All NBA leap. Then, Josh Robbins joins the show to discuss the Magic's win over the Clippers and how Paolo Banchero fits when he returns from injury.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni and Josh Robbins
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for November 21st, 2025. |
| 0:11.5 | I'm Dave DeFour here with Esperi. |
| 0:14.0 | Coming up, La Mello Ball might want out of Charlotte. |
| 0:17.3 | We're going to talk about that a little bit. |
| 0:18.5 | We've got injuries all over the NBA. |
| 0:25.7 | And our man, Josh Robbins, the legend, was in Orlando. We're going to talk to him. |
| 0:37.0 | Good morning, everybody. Good morning, S. Good morning, Dave. Or as Josh would call it, good night. |
| 0:41.3 | Good night. Yes, Josh. Josh. josh robbins our man who covers uh the orlando magic and the washington wizards um yep took us off the rails completely um we've got |
| 0:48.7 | our our segment with him after the break so uh stick around for that because it is delightful. |
| 0:54.7 | I promise you, it's very good stuff. |
| 0:56.0 | Yeah, it's great. |
| 0:56.8 | I mean, he's amazing. |
| 0:58.2 | One of my favorite people to talk to. |
| 1:01.1 | Hey, look, we got to jump around real fast because we don't have a lot of time before we get to Josh. |
| 1:07.6 | And it seems like we've got another star who might be disgruntled with this team. Lamello Ball, according to Josh. And it seems like we've got another star who might be disgruntled with his team. |
| 1:12.6 | Lamello Ball, according to our good friend over at Yahoo Sports, Kelly Eco, miss you, buddy. |
| 1:19.7 | He's reporting that Lamello Ball may want out of Charlotte. He was benched the other night. |
| 1:25.0 | He's averaging career lows in field goal percentage and three point percentage. |
| 1:30.2 | He's been a low spot for the Charlotte Hornet team that has kind of had bright spots for the first time in years, S. |
| 1:37.8 | This is a, I don't know, it feels like a weird time for this to be happening. |
| 1:41.9 | Yeah, what Kelly also reported is that, you know, the Hornets, while they're not necessarily rushing to trade Lamello Ball, they're also in some sort of way open to this conversation. And I think part of that is the fact that, like, they're not necessarily sure Lamello is the guy to lead them into this next generation. It's all new people in their, S. It's all new people. They didn't make the pick. They didn't own the team even when the pick was made. So you're not married to it. It's actually they should feel free to cut bait. Yeah, absolutely. And on top of that look, like they have a lot of young talent outside of Lamello now that they can build with. And this is the perfect type of group. |
| 2:19.3 | If you think about Con Conypil, who, in my opinion, is leading the race for Rookie of |
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