LaMelo Ball pulled up to his season opener in a highlighter-yellow Lamborghini Urus.
If that wasn’t enough, he stepped out of the $200,000-plus car wearing a matching suit. A calf-length overcoat in the same tennis-ball hue made him look like a comic-book character, and he purposely swung it around like a cape.
Ball does not need all of this spectacle. No matter the car or the outfit, he is verging on being one of the game’s next superstars based solely on his talent.
The Hornets’ 2021 Rookie of the Year is averaging 20.1 points, 6.1 rebounds and 6.