Lonzo Ball has never kept it much of a secret that he wants to be drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers. That the franchise happened to transition power from Jim Buss into the hands of Magic Johnson the same year Ball cemented himself as a top pick is quite the coincidence.
It’s one that Ball thinks he could benefit from, should the Lakers not only keep their top-three protected pick, but draft Lonzo with it.
“I can learn a lot from Magic, and it would be a blessing for me to be able to take after him each and every day,” Ball told Shams Charania of The Vertical in an extensive one-on-one interview.