 What's the word y'all today? We're doing a mega experiment because I am not talking about a top market team I am talking about these Charlotte Hornets today and my apologies that this is coming out later than usual I said here on this beanbag chair and slept for maybe two and a half hours when I should have been working So my apologies for that but better late than never We're talking about the Charlotte Hornets, which is like This would probably be my the least viewed video of all time because I don't know how many people care about the Charlotte Hornets But at this this current time before the season to start it I somewhat care about the Charlotte Hornets because I think they're going to be an interesting team and Interesting by definition for me. It's fun. You know, be sure to leave a like on the video subscribe if you are new We do this basketball talk here very often Philly fans are gonna be mad at me because for the last three videos I've been talking about how I wanted to talk about Philly, but yeah I've postponed it at least another day, but I do want to talk about Portland So Portland may be coming before Philly I literally have no idea. Can we talk about Charlotte? Oh my god So first of all, um, this has to go back all the way to last year before last season started You know, I have a podcast if you want to look for it Somebody a comment section to tell you what it's called. I guess and every year we do like this guessing the amount of wins It's such a bad thing because you always like an idiot at the end of the season because you're gonna get 80% of them wrong whether it be because of injury or somebody not living up to expectation and one thing that I got Wrong all of my guys got wrong and pretty much everybody in the world got wrong is how good the Charlotte horns are going to be now They were not good. They were not good But they were very much better than what we expected like I remember what doing that episode and I was like We rank in the 50 teams Charlotte's probably second to last only the next will be worse and obviously both of those things were completely wrong Charlotte was good in some aspects They were at the best a very fun team to watch one of the reasons why everybody got that wrongs because nobody could have Expected the emergence of Vonte Graham think about where he was his rookie season compared to what he ended up being the sophomore season dramatically different And you could say like oh, are you supposed to get better? Not everybody gets better in their second season I'm sure we always want to say oh a guy like Jason Tatum. He's only 22 years Oh, he should be better next year not all Progression is linear like everybody just don't keep jumping like that Some people just don't and Vonte based on his first season. What's it doing that? I had a tweet Devonte Graham had a ridiculous game I want to see if I could figure out what game that was he had a ridiculous game where he like capped it off With like a game winner and I was watching and I made a tweet and I was like man This is out of nowhere and there are people in my comment section like no, we knew this was coming That's just like that's just blatant lying the man went from In 14 minutes averaging four points per game where he couldn't hit a three point shot to 18 points per game When he was shooting a little above league average on a lot of attempts nobody expected that so his his Emergence was very important to this team being as good as they were and they're one of those teams They're like we're not just gonna suck. We're gonna try our best. We're gonna try our best We're gonna put our best for four We're gonna win as many games as possible with our roster and let everything fall into place and it did right They end up jumping up in the lottery and they end up getting the number three pick and taking the mellow ball Not only do they have a mellow ball They have these sexiest jerseys One of the sexiest jerseys in the league, bro. That that balloon Jersey is ridiculous, bro So I was talking to my guys about when you have a mellow ball Vonte Graham And we're gonna talk about Gordon Hayward, of course and everything else there this team will be on national TV Probably more than they have been in the last two seasons and you remember just a year ago They had Kemba Walker, but like people didn't really care about Charlotte The mellow ball is one of the biggest question marks in the NBA right now a lot of people love them and I know a lot of people that aren't as high on him and a lot of people like me who can only really see the Highlights of those games when he's playing overseas don't really know what to expect So he's gonna get a lot of national televised games early in the season because people want to see what the mellow ball is like And then when they're on national TV and people are going to realize that Vonte Graham is pretty good Even though his efficiency was really bad in the second season I'm expecting that to get a little bit better and we talk about Gordon Hayward Now y'all know I'm deep into this NBA world and not only do I used to read Reading has been taken over by podcast by the way for me and I was listening to Zach Lowe's podcast And he was talking about like I know the world see the the contract that Gordon Hayward was given and think that that was an Extreme overpay, but according to Zach Lowe the bosses set Celtics were ready to give him a hundred and ten million The Pacers were ready to give him around a hundred and ten million in the signing trade So the fact that the Charlotte Hornets paid a hundred and twenty million ain't that much of an overpay Right compared to what his market was now even a hundred and ten million from the Celtics Even a hundred and ten million from the Pacers and my eyes would have been an overpay But his market was significantly high and the Charlotte Hornets were a team They're projected to have so much cap space for next season And they have a bad reputation of just giving money because they have it and instead of that They got a guy that I guess Michael Jordan is a huge huge fan of right. They got a guy who? When he's healthy is an impactful player and that's the big thing about Gordon Hayward Of course is still when he is healthy He had came into a situation when he signed with the boss of Celtics where he assigned to the boss of Celtson at the worst He was going to be looked at as the second option behind Kyrie Irvin And then the first five minutes of his boss of Celts his career He goes down with that injury and he falls down a totem pole to not he's not number two anymore But now Jason Tatum is here and he's a lot better. So now Gordon Hayward is number three Oh, Kyrie Irvin is gone and he is replaced with Kimba Walker So now he's down to to number four because oh now Jalen Brown is average at 20 points per game And Gordon Hayward sat there and he accepted it and he played his role to perfection When you really don't think about it I mean the man average close to 20 points per game is likely fourth option when he was healthy Extremely efficient plays defense very well can play make and creates his own shot There is a market for a guy like Gordon Hayward when he is healthy The only thing that is scary to me of course is the health, but like he's already plus 30 years old and Don't last those last two years might be really rough Right and then there is even with this a huge ceiling on it Like bringing in Gordon Hayward for this team is not making them a contender bring a Gordon Hayward into this team That's not I mean it makes them a playoff contender But it's it's falls into the thing of this Charlotte Hornets over the past decade Or it seems like they're their ceiling is let's make the playoffs and of course they haven't been able to do that consistently But they continue to put together rosters. That's like let's make the playoffs And it hasn't been it hasn't got that much farther now. They hoping on Lamello ball blossoming to a star I'm not putting that on him as rookie season. This is a rookie guard It's usually pretty tough But they hoping that Lamello ball turns into a star and maybe year three Gordon Hayward still ain't Regressed and now Lamello ball is better and now maybe you're more than just a seventh eighth seed Because Lamello ball is blossoming to a star It's like all living in this like fictional hypothetical world But like I can see what they are going for at the end of the day I think that this Charlotte Hornets team should be fun Lamello ball Even if you love him, hey, we had a man He's a very good playmaker and he's gonna have like guys like my miles bridges of Malik Monk Who are high flyers that'll go up and get it on that break? Vante's gonna be there and we ain't even talked about scary Terry who like had a really sneaky good year because The way I had saw Terry Rose here my before he got to Charlotte was like oh that was extreme overpay for a guy that never Basically never started a game and he's kind of a shot to chucker But obviously the team wasn't terrible last year and he was there starting point guards So there has to be some value in him and it's already been rumored that that value might be Dealing dealt to the Clippers because now you have Vante. He was like six one Lamello ball Maybe six seven, but he's a point guard and of course Up Terry Rozier at the end of the day I think the team is going to be fun, but there is obviously a ceiling on where they could be There's a ceiling. You still got Cody Zeller is probably your starting center You still be brought back Bismag beyond but where Bismag beyond will must be locked in that locker room for him To get the big bag that he got usually this is the way it works If somebody gets a huge bag from an organization and he doesn't turn out to be anything good They usually don't get that second contract because the fans are like bro We gave this man 40 million and he ain't done nothing Nothing, but he must be loved in a locker room for them to give him that bag a few years ago and then bring him back for real for him This is all goes to the same point that I made in a couple videos that like there's so many teams out there getting better There are some teams out there that may not be getting better But we're already good like the Boston Celtics losing Gordon Haver is gonna be a hit I don't want to hide it from you Celtics fans Your team on paper is worse today than it was a couple weeks ago And you hope that the that Jason Tatum does get better than what he was and maybe turns into super stardom instead Of just all stardom you hope that Jaylen Brown continues that that great play that he had and you hope that Kimball Walker's knees are fine You know you hope that that's the case because you are worse today than you were a couple weeks ago And I think that maybe I'll make my own video on the Boston Celtics in the near future But like it hurts to lose Gordon Haver for nothing. It just does We had all saw the rumors about the Indiana Pacers being very interested in Gordon Haver They couldn't get the deal done and the deal not being done according to Zach Lowe had a lot to do the Boston Celtics not wanting to take on Miles Turner's contract Which is a bit weird to me because I think Miles Turner is like the prototypical center for what you're trying to do in Boston But they didn't want to do it according to Zach Lowe because he's making 18 million dollars a year And they don't see that as a valuable contract when you toss in Kimball's contract We toss in Jaylen Brown's contract and you toss in Jason Tatum's new extension added another 18 million on the books Probably wasn't the smartest idea but according to Danny Ainge Danny Ainge has a stain and I don't know how this video transitioned to the Boston Celtics talk But here we are Danny Ainge to me seems like the type of guy that's really good when he can get the deal done because he is so He just wants to finesse all the time. He just wants to finesse all the time. I'm not gonna do a linear deal We're gonna we have to finesse you so not only do we want Miles Turner We won't Victor Ladebo back. You say no. All right, I guess you're just gonna lose Gordon Haver for nothing, you know At the end of the day, I believe this is like I was looking at the teams out east The the Charlotte Hornets are going to get more nationally televised games than the Cavs the Bulls the Knicks Like like all of those look they might not get more than Atlanta because Atlanta revamped They look pretty good and Trey Young is an all-star already But like those lower six teams in the Easter conference other than the Atlanta Hawks The Charlotte Hornets should get more nationally televised games to them Which is good for Charlotte fans when I was in Charlotte every and what's for all-star weekend So there was a lot of fans coming into the city There weren't fans of the Hornets But like I saw a lot of Hornets merch a lot of it walking around the city again We're talking about all-star weekend So I was there as a Bulls fan my homie was there as a Knicks fan And we are rocking our gear because we want to represent our guys even if our guys aren't in the all-star game But there was a ton of fan loyalty in Charlotte and that's that's what you want. You know, that's what you want because Shoo, they could have been looking real real bad talking about Expansion and relocation So I hope everything goes well for them over the next couple seasons I'm excited to watch them play and everything I said in this video could turn out to be wrong They could they could throw out a roster at the beginning of the next season and it just looks terrible and then With this video is irrelevant. I'll see you all tomorrow. I'm sorry. This is a late-night boat. Peace