LaMelo Ball’s Worst Nightmare is Becoming a Reality

LaMelo Ball’s Worst Nightmare is Becoming a Reality

Yeah nothing else has changed the Charlotte Hornets they lose again this time to the Sacramento Kings credibility around the league about how they’re going to run the organization in that community in Charlotte where this is a very popular has been a very popular organization Steve Clifford not taking

Any questions and not happy about it the Charlotte Hornets drafted lamelo ball with the third overall pick in the 2020 NBA draft and it didn’t take long for them to realize that he was the real deal in their relatively Short history as a franchise the hornets have never

Seen a player like ball who can pass and shoot with the League’s best but even after nailing a high draft pick with star potential the Charlotte Hornets have been mostly stuck in the mud and very far from relevancy it hasn’t helped that lamelo ball has missed extended

Time with injuries during the past two seasons as the team has plummeted without him still Charlotte has firmly committed to ball with a massive contract extension and with their recent draft decisions but as the Hornets continue to Tumble they could be facing a tougher decision on their point

Guard’s future but the face of the franchise is about to get more expensive and the team woefully low in the standings lamelo’s days and Charlotte could be numbered so before we get to the content make sure you drop like subscribe and turn on our notifications to help the channel grow make sure you

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Everybody lamelo ball joined a Charlotte Hornets team coming off of a Ninth Place finish in a weak Eastern Conference not good enough to get an invite into the NBA Orlando bubble Charlotte had a stable of guards already on the team before adding lamelo ball these guards included players like Terry Rosier

Devonte gram and Malik monk head coach James bgo went with Terry Rosier and Devonte Graham as the starting back court after they finished as the team’s top two scorers in the previous season through the first 20 games the starting back court remained the same garnering

Mixed results as the team began 9 and 11 Charlotte brought lamelo ball along slowly as his playing time gradually increased throughout the first 20 games of his career and after going scoreless in his debut lamelo became more comfortable and productive with more playing time and was able to become the

Youngest player in NBA history at the time to record a triple double at 19 years and 140 days old in a win over Atlanta he was averaging nearly 12 points six rebounds six assists in 25 minutes a game before he made his first career start with Terry Rosier out for

The first two games of February lamelo stepped in playing next to Graham and Charlotte played well winning in overtime against the Miami he and narrowly lost to a good Philadelphia 76ers team and instead of returning lamelo ball to the bench when Terry Rosier came back James bgo decided to do

Something unprecedented starting all three of his point guards and the craziest part of all is it worked Devonte Graham Terry Rosier and lamelo ball become the Charlotte Hornet’s best lineup with an offensive rating of 116 as they outscore their opponents by 60 points with all three on the court

Meanwhile the Charlotte Hornets elevated their record above 500 in mid-march while bow ball continued to Flash start potential dishing out highlight reel passes with Flare while sprinkling in big scoring nights following the recent threo guard Trend Charlotte found success just like Oklahoma City had the previous year the OKC Thunder rode the

Three guard group of Chris Paul Shay gilgas Alexander and Dennis shuder to an unexpected playoff birth in 2020 and the Charlotte Hornets hope to do the same in 2021 but their chances took a major turn for the worst in late March lamelo suffered what a appeared to be a

Season-ending wrist injury and a blowout loss to the Los Angeles Clippers now lamelo would have surgery a couple days later and while he was set to be re-evaluated in 4 Weeks Charlotte still didn’t know if he was going to return that season the Hornets hung tough in Ball’s absence hovering around 500 But

Ultimately it ended up being too much slipping to 30 and 32 by the end of April but after missing 21 games lamelo returned to help Charlotte get a win over Detroit but the Hornets only won two games the rest of the way and end of the season on a five-game losing streak

They finished the short and 72 Game season with a 33 and 39 record which was only good enough for 10th in the East however the good news for the Charlotte Hornets was that they qualified for the NBA’s brand new inaugural playin tournament giving themselves a chance to

Make the playoffs with just two more wins but this didn’t really make much of a difference the Charlotte Hornets became allergic to defense at probably the worst time of the year as they would lose 144 to 117 in Indiana as their season came to an end lamelo was named

Rookie of the year after averaging over 15 points six assists and nearly six rebounds per game Charlotte was so convinced that they had their point guard of the future that they even decided to break up their three-point guard lineup trading Devonte Graham to the New Orleans Pelicans for a first

Round pick and the Charlotte Hornets did this because they believed that they had the perfect replacement for Devonte Graham in the 2021 NBA draft where they would build their core around lamelo ball taking James book Knight with the 11th overall all pick and pairing lamelo ball with his center of the future in

Kai Jones with the 19th overall pick Kai Jones was a versatile big man that had already flashed potential to develop a jump shot in college but the problem was he was very raw and didn’t get much playing time book Knight believed that the Charlotte Hornets had finished

Building their back court of the future by pairing him with lamelo saying we’re going to be one of the better young team teams in the league um just me and lamelo in the back court the way we play the the different type of swagger we have and cre creativity it’s just going

We going to be box offers that’s the only way I can put it and for a brief period of time it looked like that was going to be the reality the Charlotte Hornets would open up the 2021 to 2022 season with remarkable results opening out with a 5-2 record but that would be

About it following this incredible start things would take a turn for the worst the Hornets would lose five games in a row but they would bounce right back with a five-game winning streak in a similar Trend to the previous season Charlotte hung around the 500 mark early

In the season reaching a high water mark of 26 to 20 in late January lamelo went up a level responding to his coach’s challenge to take the Reigns in order to help the team win he became the team’s unquestioned floor General the engine for their offense and musty TV with

Creative passes and big shooting nights becoming standard protocol for one of the League’s rising stars in one of his best performances of the Season lamelo ball dropped a career-high 38 points as Charlotte nearly beat the Boston Celtics in the TD Garden it wasn’t a surprise when an early Fe uary NBA Commissioner

Adam Silver named lamelo ball in All-Star Reserve becoming the eighth player in franchise history to earn an All-Star nod but soon after the announcement the Hornets lost their sixth game in a row dropping their record to 28 and 28 before entering the All-Star break with a losing record

Lamelo represented the Hornets well at All-Star Weekend scoring 18 points during the All-Star game before returning to Charlotte for their playoff push Charlotte would go 14-9 down the stretch finishing with the team’s first winning record record since the team’s last playoff appearance during the 2015 to 2016 season but in a deep Eastern

Conference I was only good enough to finish 10th as they entered the playin for the second year in a row they developed an allergy to defense in a must-win game as they got obliterated by the Atlanta Hawks 132 to 103 it was another disappointing finish for one of

The League’s youngest teams that were boasting with potential but as lamelo improved in his second season so had the Charlotte Hornets his numbers Told part of the story of his rise to All-Star status you had to watch him play to do it justice the Hornets had to be excited

To have a player that even casual fans would want to watch but unfortunately things were about to take a turn for the worst the 2022 offseason included multiple major developments for the Charlotte Hornets some that would be crippling for the franchise’s future despite 10- win improvements and back-to-back Seasons Charlotte decided

To fire James bgo after four seasons as head coach in June they announced that they were hiring gold State assistant Kenny Atkinson to be their new head coach who accepted the job as the warriors were playing in the 2022 NBA finals this was a home run higher Kenny Atkinson already had a remarkable

History with the 2019 Brooklyn Nets a team that was primarily composed of Castaway players and high potential rejects like D’Angelo Russell or talent that they developed themselves like Spencer dwiti Jared Allen Harris Levert this team was electric and good enough to finish sixth in the Eastern conf conference which made Kenny Atkinson a

Prime candidate for this job but unfortunately it wouldn’t come to be despite agreeing to terms on a contract a contract was never signed and a little over a week later after the finals Kenny Atkinson changed his mind announcing that he’d remain in Golden State and Charlotte’s hands were tied at this

Point they would essentially decide to date their ex-girlfriend despite their new girlfriend building something there hiring Steve Clifford who had coached the team for Five Seasons before bgo and led the team to two playoff births less than a week later things got way way worse miles Bridges one of Charlotte’s

Rare draft hits and franchise building blocks was arrested following an alleged assault of his former girlfriend and mother of his two children he was charged with three filon domestic violence charges which led to a long legal battle and he ultimately missed the entire 2022 to 2023 season on top of

That James book Knight their supposed shooting guard of the future was also arrested but this was a little bit different James book Knight was arrested on suspicion of DUI right before the season started and for the very cherry on top the team announced that lamelo ball would miss the season opener with a

Left ankle sprain that he suffered in the preseason that injury ultimately costed him 13 games of the Season before he would make his return in mid November but in his third game back and first home game of the season lamelo would reinjure the same ankle when he stepped

On a Fan’s foot while chasing down a loose ball that ended up costing him another month before returning in mid December but Charlotte’s season had already gone sideways by then as they fell to 7 and 21 that night as part of an 8 game losing streak lamelo returned

To form as the calendar flipped to 2023 often leading the Charlotte Hornets in scoring and usually in assists but the team kept losing and suffered losing streaks of five and seven in January and February but The Season’s death Nowell came in late February when lamelo ball fell awkwardly during a win over Detroit

It turns out that he had fractured his other ankle ending his season lamelo Once Again put up great numbers in year three but he did this in only 36 games and Charlotte finished with the League’s fourth worst record at 27 and 55 now during the 2023 draft lottery the

Charlotte Hornets would get very fortunate getting the second overall pick in a moment that eerily resembled The franchise’s Misfortune in 2012 that year the then Bobcats missed out on Landing Anthony Davis and instead drafted Michael kid Gilchrist who was out of the league at age 26 in 2023 they

Fell a pick short of Landing generational Prospect Victor weapon Yama who the Spurs took in a no-brainer move first overall that frustration aside the Charlotte Hornets had a major decision to make with the second pick the next best prospects were either point guard scoot Henderson or forward Brandon

Miller would Charlotte draft scoot to pair with or replace lamelo or would they avoid scoot altogether because he played the same position as lamelo the Hornets chose the latter taking Brandon Miller with the second overall pick although GM Mitch cup said he belied believe that they took the best player

Available as Charlotte sidest stepped any point guard drama the Hornets firmly cemented their commitment to lamelo later that summer signing him to a 5year Max extension worth up to $260 million the biggest contract in team history but that wasn’t all Charlotte would do they brought back forward PJ Washington on a

Three-year deal and Miles Bridges returned on a one-year contract giving the Hornets hope that this season would be much different than last but things went South fast once the games began despite lamelo’s brilliant Charlotte didn’t win consecutive games until right before Thanksgiving starting out 5- n lamelo had big games during that stretch

Including a 30-point triple double and a loss to Dallas and a huge clutch performance and a surprise overtime win over Boston but in their 15th game against Orlando lamelo took a hard fall and had to be carried to the locker room he had suffered yet another ankle strain

That would keep him out for at least the next 6 weeks and with lamelo gone history once again repeated itself only this time it was of the likes that we’ve never seen the Charlotte Hornets went on a catastrophic losing streak going 3 and 17 over their next 20 games without

Lamelo including an 11 game losing streak the reason why you probably didn’t hear about this more was because it was overshadowed by another legendary free fall and losing streak even lamelo’s return couldn’t stop the bleeding as the Charlotte Hornets got blown out by the lowly San Antonio Spurs

As it stands the Hornets scor the third fewest points per game while allowing the sixth most point points per game they haven’t won a single game by double digits while owning the League’s worst Point differential the Pistons Wizards and Spurs who each have multiple double digit wins have all gained National

Notoriety for their losing the Charlotte Hornets have been similarly bad but they’ve been doing it in a more quiet way as they said 20 games below 500 losing lamelo ball for long stretches hasn’t helped but even when he’s played at an All-Star level they’re still losing at an alarming rate and unlike

The other bad teams in their orbit they’ve had some measure of continuity on their roster even though their recent draft history outside of lamelo ball is a mixed bag the 2021 draft class in particular was disastrous James book Knight the guy who was supposed to be box office with lamelo ball has barely

Played at all this season racking up dnps Kai Jones didn’t even make it to the start of this season after his odd situation that we covered in a previous video Mark Williams who is a first rounder in 2022 Nick Richards who was a second rounder in 2020 have actually

Proven to be capable big men all by ones that won’t really move the needle in the big picture Washington a 2019 lottery pick has consistently produced double digit scoring Seasons but he’s probably better known for his nationality for his child support battle with Britney rener as opposed to his basketball exploits

The craziest part is the Charlotte Hornets have had Talent before they had the Martin twins as rookies in 2019 after drafting Cody in the second round and signning Caleb who went undrafted and they decided to keep the wrong twin Cody has been MIA with injuries while Caleb has blossomed into a quality role

Player with the Miami Heat and then of course there’s miles Bridges drafted in 2018 who literally missed an entire season because of his offc court behavior and whose future in Charlotte seems clouded it hasn’t helped that Malik monk a 2017 lottery pick has gone on to thrive elsewhere as well while

Scoot has had his struggles in Portland Brandon Miller has shown promise but it’s still too early to tell how his career will play out the same goes for fellow rookie first-rounder Nick Smith Jr they’ve had capable veterans in Terry Rosier and Gordon Hayward over the last few seasons but they don’t project a

Starters on a contender and have each missed chunks of time with injuries even with an emerging Superstar the collection of players has come woefully short of relevancy and it could spur major change in Charlotte during the press conference last summer for lamelo’s extension Mitch cup was asked if securing lamelo would help attract

Players to Charlotte knowing that they had an Allstar for the foreseeable future well what’s going to make Charlotte more desirable as much as I like lamelo he’s not going to be the reason the primary reason you know why Charlotte is more desirable I think we would both admit if we win

Games and we become a winning organization then you’ll see that players you know will want to be drafted by Charlotte they’ll want to be traded to Charlotte and when they’re free agents they’ll want to come to Charlotte so yes lamelo is a big part of that as I mentioned earlier he’s our Cornerstone

But winning will solve all those other problems the winning hasn’t happened which begs the question should Charlotte cash in their star who’s already locked up a long-term deal by trading him to the highest bidder there’s no question in my mind that the Charlotte Hornets could fetch some serious offers for

Lamelo if they put him on the trade block even with his recent injury history W recently reported on a threads reply that right now they have no intention of moving lamelo ball or Brandon Miller who the Charlotte Hornets rightfully see as their building blocks it’s also unlikely Charlotte trades

Lamelo this season because of the so-called poison pill provision which makes it financially difficult to trade players who have signed rookie extensions before their new contract kicks in that’s why the Golden State Warriors waited until after last season in order to trade Jordan pool to the Washington Wizards which we’ve made a

Huge video on recently Lamela ball salaries about to dramatically increase beginning next season and with the Charlotte Hornets record still in the gutter they could move off that cost to reset the franchise once again there has already been major changes in the Queen City within the past year and more could

Be coming soon Michael Jordan arguably the greatest player of all time but one of the worst owners ever sold his majority stake in the team in August it wouldn’t be too surprising if a coaching change followed with new majority owners in town they have a coach in Clifford

Who the team once fired only to bring him back 5 years later after the guy they really wanted thought he was better off as an assistant somewhere else as opposed to being a head coach for the Charlotte Hornets one thing hasn’t changed over the last season and a half

Whether lamelo ball plays or not the Charlotte Hornets have been bad unless that somehow changes in the near future the chances of moving the face of the franchise will only grow let me know in the comments section down below what should the Charlotte Hornets do to

Improve their team is it time to move on from Lamela ball and if so when should they do it should they do it next year in two years I like to hear what you have to say aside from that I’m your boy Mike and I’m dropping our mic until our next upload

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