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the Kai Jones saga.

Casual fans probably don't even know Kai Jones.

He's the center for the Charlotte Hornets.

He's the one with the colored hair.

He's the one with the blue, the blue hair.

And he is at a wild ride. He's like, I don't, I don't like the direction

he's going. It feels very Chandler Jones-esque to me. It's just all of a sudden, you're on

my feed saying wild things that we know you don't mean. We know something's happened.

But right now, about a week ago, Shams, shams tweeted this.

The Charlotte Hornets will have 2021 first round pick Kai Jones away from the team indefinitely.

There's no timetable for his return.

Jones will miss training camp due to personal reasons.

The team remains in

constant communication with them. Constant communication, though, I don't think so because today

or yesterday, Kai Jones formally requested a trade from the Charlotte Hornets, followed by hashtag

goat life.

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