{"id":771325,"date":"2026-06-26T19:48:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T19:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/771325\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T19:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T19:48:20","slug":"it-was-almost-unanimously-that-the-charlotte-hornets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/771325\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It was almost unanimously that the Charlotte Hornets \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim MacMahon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eHZHK7V7ark&amp;t=75s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:&quot;It was almost unanimously that the Charlotte Hornets were the biggest winner. There is a lot of respect for Tim Connelly. People call him a riverboat gambler.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;&amp;quot&quot;}\" class=\"link \">&#8220;It was almost unanimously that the Charlotte Hornets were the biggest winner. There is a lot of respect for Tim Connelly. People call him a riverboat gambler.<\/a> I had some people say I didn&#8217;t like the Rudy Gobert deal, and that worked out great for the Timberwolves. So, with those caveats, the almost consensus opinion of the people I talked to around the league was LaMelo Ball had next to no value a year ago. Jeff Peterson, the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/charlotte-hornets\/5312\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Charlotte Hornets;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Charlotte Hornets&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Charlotte Hornets<\/a> general manager, cleaned him up and as soon as he had value, pounced on the opportunity to move him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eHZHK7V7ark&amp;t=75s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:YouTube;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;YouTube&quot;}\" class=\"link \">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim MacMahon: &#8220;It was almost unanimously that the Charlotte Hornets were the biggest winner. There is a lot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3777],"tags":[7,684,473,3878,685,6355,966,6,94428,373,3994,4136,308],"class_list":["post-771325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-charlotte-hornets","tag-basketball","tag-charlotte","tag-charlotte-hornets","tag-charlottehornets","tag-hornets","tag-jeff-peterson","tag-lamelo-ball","tag-nba","tag-riverboat-gambler","tag-rudy-gobert","tag-tim-connelly","tag-tim-macmahon","tag-timberwolves"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116818143034593982","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}