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Hornets Trade Mark Williams to the Suns _ 2025 NBA Draft Reaction · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Been so excited.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, here we have it. The Charlotte Hornets are trading
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  Speaker 2: Mark Williams to the Phoenix Suns for twenty nine tonight
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  Speaker 2: and then a twenty twenty nine first round pick. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so not not only are we getting man Man, but
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  Speaker 2: we're also getting Mark Williams. There's your front court of
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  Speaker 2: the future Phoenix Suns. I have word we can go
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  Speaker 2: to Jake Fish or Fish. Please help us make sense
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  Speaker 2: of this.
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  Speaker 1: What is going on.
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  Speaker 3: I'm trying to sift through if Mila Watch is actually
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  Speaker 3: gonna stay in Phoenix. But there's depth. I mean, Mark
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  Speaker 3: Williams is going to the Suns. And as you guys
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  Speaker 3: were talking about about the need for Phoenix to have
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  Speaker 3: a center, that's been consistent throughout I mean from the
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  Speaker 3: moment Phoenix ended their season short of the play in tournament.
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  Speaker 3: They obviously moved the use of nerkits to Charlotte previously
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  Speaker 3: and took back Near Richards from Charlotte and a separate deal.
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  Speaker 3: There is some clear synergy between being the Sun's front
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  Speaker 3: office and the Horns front office making these trades. I
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  Speaker 3: am getting yes, okay, so come on, I'll watch is
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  Speaker 3: going to stay in Phoenix right now and the Suns
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  Speaker 3: just in a massive, you know, two man punch, get
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  Speaker 3: their two centers of the future. Mark Williams, if everyone
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  Speaker 3: probably remembers shocking deal at the very end of the
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  Speaker 3: trade deadline in February with the Lakers for Dalton Connect
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  Speaker 3: and a couple of first and then the Lakers ultimately
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  Speaker 3: rescinded that deal due to Mark Williams's medical I'd say
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  Speaker 3: Mark Williams being a potential trade candidate was something that
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  Speaker 3: everyone in the league to use a funny expression, had
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  Speaker 3: on their bingo card, but it wasn't really out there
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  Speaker 3: until I got worried about it, like literally two minutes
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  Speaker 3: before news broke. And I think it's not surprising being
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  Speaker 3: that just think about it on a human level, Mark
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  Speaker 3: Williams basically got broken up with by the one family
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  Speaker 3: he knew, Like they put him in a different home
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  Speaker 3: and then they had to welcome him back. And I
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  Speaker 3: think everyone was professional about the situation, but I know
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  Speaker 3: Mark Williams's side of things. They were always looking and
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  Speaker 3: kind of hoping. I think that he would get moved
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  Speaker 3: again this summer. Just an awkward, suboptimal situation, right to
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  Speaker 3: go back to a team that you were supposed to
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  Speaker 3: be the franchise center, the center of the future, and
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  Speaker 3: all of a sudden they kind of went behind your
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  Speaker 3: back and traded you to the Lakers and then welcomed
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  Speaker 3: you back. And in theory, Charlotte, to my understanding at
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  Speaker 3: the time, thought they were doing right by Mark sending
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  Speaker 3: him to LA Like, why not put a twenty three
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  Speaker 3: year old kid in Los Angeles to star next to
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  Speaker 3: Luka Doncic and Lebron James would have been a great
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  Speaker 3: opportunity for Mark Williams, right, But of course didn't happen,
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  Speaker 3: and now he gets in probably a way better situation
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  Speaker 3: in terms of runway for growth and not necessarily having
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  Speaker 3: a win now next to a forty year old Lebron James,
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  Speaker 3: Like I think that timeline situation makes more sense. And
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  Speaker 3: to bring it back to Phoenix overall, I mean the
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  Speaker 3: Suns they wanted to get into this range of the draft.
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  Speaker 3: That was probably one of their most important things they
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  Speaker 3: wanted to achieve.
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  Speaker 1: In their Kevin Durant Tree talks.
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  Speaker 3: They were talking to Toronto at nine, remember they were
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  Speaker 3: talking to Minnesota all the way down at number seventeen.
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  Speaker 3: This tenth pick from that they got back like this
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  Speaker 3: was originally their pick from Houston. The Rockets told me
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  Speaker 3: that that was the Sun's preferred like number one asset,
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  Speaker 3: if you want to call that, compared to Dylan Brooks,
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  Speaker 3: compared to Jalen Green, and they wanted a big man
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  Speaker 3: all along. They were looking at big men again all
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  Speaker 3: the way back down at number twenty nine.
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  Speaker 1: So now that pick goes to Charlotte.
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  Speaker 3: That's an interesting thing at the end of the first
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  Speaker 3: round two, being that the Hornets also have the thirty
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  Speaker 3: third pick and the thirty fourth pick at the top
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  Speaker 3: of the second round. They were already being discussed as
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  Speaker 3: a likely trade scenario with thirty three to thirty four,
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  Speaker 3: so now they have three picks in a five pick range.
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  Speaker 1: They were already projected to trade one.
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  Speaker 3: So I wonder and I'm definitely keeping an eye out
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  Speaker 3: for the Hornets being another trade candidate down at the
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  Speaker 3: bottom of the first at the top of the second.
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  Speaker 2: Love it, okay, Thank you Jake Fisher for the updates.
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  Speaker 1: Kart.
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  Speaker 2: We call that in the business the brotherhood. Two for one.
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  Speaker 2: You get come out of Mallowatch Duke Center, you get
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  Speaker 2: Mark Williams Duke Center. In a ten second span, I
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  Speaker 2: know John Shire is smiling right now.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but also in the back of my head as
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  Speaker 4: that move was made and as they selected man Man,
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  Speaker 4: I honestly thought to myself, I don't want him to
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  Speaker 4: become Mark Williams. So hopefully he doesn't pick up some
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  Speaker 4: of Mark Williams habits, because I think on paper, Mark
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  Speaker 4: Williams should be this defensive lob threat, but he's maybe
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  Speaker 4: a little bit underwhelming at times. But I do think
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  Speaker 4: that front court death is something you want to have,
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  Speaker 4: and in a span of a minute kind of before
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  Speaker 4: our eyes. I think the Suns get their starting center
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  Speaker 4: and they also have a backup center.
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  Speaker 2: Now that twenty twenty nine first from Phoenix that could
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  Speaker 2: be worth something based on how the Suns are blowing
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  Speaker 2: things up right now.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know instant reaction.
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  Speaker 2: I think Charlotte got a nice return for unloading Mark Williams.
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  Speaker 4: Quick, can you say that Charlotte did what something good?
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  Speaker 2: They got something good?
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  Speaker 1: Wow?
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  Speaker 2: I think they got something good. I'll be curious to
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  Speaker 2: see what they do at twenty nine