perception wise, LaMelo Ball is one of the most interesting cases ever where he has an abundance of aura moments and has amassed possibly the most aesthetically pleasing portfolio of passing and pull up shooting highlights in this era yet i've encountered so many people thinking he sucks, while it's the analytics heads who end up being the ones who defend him
i think it's just people extrapolating and mapping LaMelo's supposedly unserious off-court personality onto his actual on-court profile. But what they end up criticizing isn't the actual LaMelo Ball, who, by all accounts, has been one of NBA's best offensive engines this decade; they end up criticizing a caricature of a player that they made up themselves
Hornets front office really are some dumbasses. Shit dont make any sense. How you only get 1 first for your star player? I dont count pick swaps when one team is lotto and the other is a contender. And then that pick is currently in middle school? Just dumb.
So many incredible storylines at the World Cup but the stoicism and dignity of this man’s tribute to a national leader assassinated with the connivance of the CIA is maybe my favorite