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First edition story from @JakeLFischer and me on the line of trade suitors for
ming for Charlotte's LaMelo Ball: tinyurl.com/4hxz8593

A trade for Ball would certainly do that. The Timberwolves and Raptors are the
 first two confirmed suitors, but league sources say that the Milwaukee Bucks
have also registered interest. And there are presumed to be other teams lodgin
g interest with Charlotte despite the 24-year-old's injury history and at-time
s-erratic play.

Minnesota's interest, sources tell The Stein Line, is undeniably serious.

Sources say Ball has been looking forward to this upcoming season with the tea
m that drafted him No. 3 overall in 2020 to try to build off of Charlotte's mo
mentum from 2025-26. The Hornets went a surprising 44-38 this season, only to
fall at the final Play-In Tournament hurdle in Orlando and miss the playoffs f
or a league-high 10th consecutive season.

We're told that the Hornets are nonetheless listening to the offers they're ge
tting despite their recent success under second-year coach Charles Lee and cou
ld go ahead with a trade after the emergence of two players drafted after Ball
 — Rookie of the Year runner-up Kon Knueppel and Brandon Miller — as fellow
franchise cornerstones.

The Wolves are widely regarded as a team that will undoubtedly be as aggressiv
e as possible this offseason to try to reshape the core around Edwards after f
inances forced Minnesota to let Nickeil Alexander-Walker walk in free agency l
ast summer. Alexander-Walker immediately won NBA Most Improved Player honors t
his season in Atlanta while the Wolves, after a second-round exit to San Anton
io, made the decision to salary dump Randle to create the needed flexibility t
o re-sign Dosunmu and perhaps do more.

Minnesota has maintained that perimeter defensive ace Jaden McDaniels is off l
imits in trade conversations. Sources say that the Wolves also prefer to "do r
ight" by injured guard Donte DiVincenzo and keep the Villanova product out of
their offseason business after he sustained a devastating torn Achilles during
 Minnesota's first-round playoff victory over Denver.

The Wolves, sources say, would also prefer not to part with 2024-25 Sixth Man
of the Year Naz Reid, but it is difficult to see how they could construct a cr
edible trade offer for Ball without including Reid or fellow big man Rudy Gobe
rt.

Minnesota's three-team trade with Brooklyn and Chicago, however, cannot be fin
alized until early July after the league's new salary cap year begins and its
annual moratorium at the start of free agency is lifted. If the Wolves were to
 assemble a trade offer that convinces the Hornets to part with Ball, it is co
nceivable that the Randle trade could be expanded to help facilitate other tra
nsactions.



不過根據《The Stein Line》的消息人士透露，灰狼的興趣是非常認真的。



根據消息，儘管黃蜂在第二年執教的總教練 Charles Lee 帶領下近期取得了成功，但他
們仍在傾聽各方報價。在 Ball 之後被選中的兩名球員

年度最佳新秀亞軍 Kon Knueppel 和 Brandon Miller崛起並成為球隊的基石後，黃蜂可
能就會著手進行交易。



灰狼一直堅稱，Jaden McDaniels 在交易對話中是不可觸碰的球員，消息人士透露，灰狼
也傾向對受傷的後衛 Donte DiVincenzo「有始有終」

將他排除在休賽季的交易考量之外。





https://marcstein.substack.com/p/sources-a-line-of-trade-suitors-is

灰狼可以把Randle的交易擴大丟更多薪資，讓他們可以跟原本的交易合併，用四方或更多
把LaMelo Ball帶回來

但要看灰狼的報價能不能滿足黃蜂，除了Gobert，灰狼還有一個2033年的首輪可以給


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