Fitz Robertson

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[Fitz Robertson @FitzyRobertson]

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[👑 @Kdhchels_]

🚨🎙️ Rio Ferdinand on Enzo Maresca leaving Chelsea for Manchester City:

🗣️ “I’ll be honest, I never thought we’d get to hear the full story from Maresca himself. For months, everyone was blaming the owners for sacking one of their best managers in recent years, but the club simply knew something the public didn’t.”

🗣️ “If a player or a manager no longer sees a club as the place he want, then why should the club want to keep him? Sometimes the biggest move a club can make is knowing when to let go.”

🗣️ “From Maresca’s side though, I found it disappointing. Chelsea gave him the biggest opportunity of his career. They took him from Leicester, trusted him with one of the biggest jobs in England and gave him a platform to build his name.”

🗣️ “You don’t leave a club like that halfway through a project because Pep Guardiola calls you. That’s not how you repay a club that believed in you before everyone else did.”

🗣️ “I actually respect Chelsea for acting immediately. Once they realized his mind wasn’t fully at the club anymore, they moved on instead of begging someone to stay.”

🗣️ “And look at who they’ve brought in—Xabi Alonso. A manager with a bigger résumé, a stronger personality and someone who can influence an entire football club, not just the starting eleven.”

🗣️ “Maybe Maresca leaving and Xabi becoming available at almost the same time wasn’t just a coincidence. It could be a blessing in disguise.”

[Damien Peters @DamienPetersNBA]

The Charlotte Hornets front office saw their first successful team in a decade and said “You know what, let’s break up this young exciting team”. And people wonder why some franchises stay bad forever.

[Jaylen Brown @FCHWPO]

Nobody has won more combined regular season and playoff games since I entered the league 10 years ago

[Fitz Robertson @FitzyRobertson]

@J_Hooper_ Love Coby, but he’s short & other than that where’s the natural PG instinct? Where’s the strong wing defender that we had in Miles Bridges? Where are the lobs? City Excitement dissipating already. Adam Silver made a call and said “Hornets gotta suck.”

[Fitz Robertson @FitzyRobertson]

@hornets as Ice Cube said “Check YoSelf before you wreck YoSelf…” I need a coffee meeting with the front office. I promise I will turn this franchise around. Let me help the incompetence @hornets @hornets @hornets

[Fitz Robertson @FitzyRobertson]

@PrimeKnueppel You’re Ludacris man. “Let me pull a compilation of Melo’s missed shots,” meanwhile the dude was key to the best offense in the league the second half of the season.

[Bull Run @run_bull_]

Unbelievable. These people actually don’t know the players they are talking about.

I’m so shocked at the level of knowledge these people have.

“Can Ant learn to play off ball”

Legit was said. Ant is a SG at heart, he’s learned to play PG, not the other way around. 😂

[NBA Courtside @NBA__Courtside]

Kendrick Perkins says there is a problem with a lot of people out here that don’t take LaMelo Ball serious:

“And I don’t know what’s the problem, I don’t know why people feel like this man is not a hooper or a competitor, I don’t know if it’s because he has the IG followers, he post on IG or he has the tattoos. But when this man steps between the lines, this man goes out there and gives people that work. I understand it may look like he’s having fun and he is, but at the same time he’s trying to bust your a** every time he gets between those lines”

[Vévo @vevosuave]

The Hornets are about to learn how many of their players looked that good because of LaMelo

[rodlo 🪬 @roddystr]

4-14 to 44-38
72 games of LaMelo Ball
65 games of Brandon Miller
Top 2 Rookie of the Year candidate
Historic offensive numbers
Second largest net rating season to season swing of the last 35 years
Second pair of teammates to be #1 and #2 in threes made for the league
Longest win-streak since 1997
First winning season since 2021
First GLeague Championship in Franchise History
First Summer League Championship in Franchise History
Biggest average margin of victory in NBA History
Best 5-man net rating in NBA History of a starting lineup with more than 250 minutes played
LaMelo Ball and Brandon most minutes played together in three years
Most arena sell-outs in franchise history
Rookie led the league in 3s for the first time ever

Traded their star point guard LaMelo Ball away immediately after

[Sheldon Wohlman | Utility Sports @_utilitysports]

Trade Grades for the LaMelo Ball Trade

Timberwolves - A+++++++
Minnesota FINALLY gets an elite playmaking guard to pair with the Rudy Gobert timeline. One of the best passers in the league and a player who immediately serves as a great table-setter for Rudy's long rolls, Ant can play off the catch a bit more and Minnesota is WAY better than they were with Julius Randle. The defensive infrastructure can more than protect LaMelo. McDaniels will continue to defend ball handlers and LaMelo's positional size allows him to hide on wings

Hornets - D
The Hornets FINALLY had a good season and they stripped away the driving force of it. Little disclaimer here, high slips and ghosts to get Kon the ball in advantage won't work quite as well with a 6'0" point guard instead of a 6'7" guard

Unbelievable to me here. There's a good chance Minnesota conveys zero actual swaps in this deal because Minnesota is just simply better than Charlotte.

I like Naz for the Hornets which saves this from being an F, but man. Why.

[Dylan Jackson @djdotmp4]

This is a slap in the face man. Unbelievable. Way to undo literally all of the good will you've built up with this fan base.

You're telling me you got a SINGLE first-round pick for the guy who got All-NBA votes this year.

Sure.

[Fitz Robertson @FitzyRobertson]

@hornets schedule me a meeting with Jeff Peterson. Our franchise has completely lost their marbles. I’ll come bearing gifts and common sense.

[Mediocrity Enjoyer @bloomkral]

Jeff Peterson is choosing to blow up his franchise only to build around this. I am not exaggerating at all here, this is Nico Harrison level franchise suicide.

A Kon-Miller team is untenable without LaMelo’s playmaking brilliance. It doesn’t work. Hornets will have no future.

[Connor @tweetsofcat]

Charlotte went 33-16 down the stretch and the black SUVs pulled up to Jeff Peterson’s home to remind him that the Hornets are a feeder organization

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

The World Cup is proof that, if it weren't for our leaders, the vast majority of people around the world would get along just fine.

[CJ Fogler 🫡 @cjzero]

Rory McIlroy hitting from the Windows XP default wallpaper

[KnicksMuse @KnicksMuse]

Wemby is the flopper people think SGA is.

[Carolina Hurricanes @Canes]

WHO WANTS A BEER SKATE?!

RT for your chance to win the hottest drinking device in sports.

[Fitz Robertson @FitzyRobertson]

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