CLEVELAND, Ohio: LaMelo Ball’s NBA debut was hacked.
For poor defense and poor shooting and rotations. For a teammate who added 42 points and bombarded 10 3, further consolidating LaMelo on the bench.
And for real hackers, who on Wednesday attacked the so-called Zoom number 3 of the general selection with journalists and interrupted the interview with computer-generated cough noises, sharp Spanish nonsense, video game noises and something that could better be described like sounding a cross between a vacuum cleaner and a bass beat from a techno track.
It would be hard to find anything much worse in terms of NBA debuts for someone from Ball’s pedigree than his goalless start in a 121-114 loss to the Charlotte Hornets against the Cleveland Cavaliers. Unless you consider the Zoom call later.
The latter was not Ball’s fault, some idiots got their hands on the Hornets’ Zoom link and had fun. The dangers of the NBA media during a …