PARIS – The cool morning Paris weather made the team photo shoot at the Eiffel Tower a bit unpleasant.
The nice thing about it was it included injured point guard Lonzo Ball.
Don’t get too comfortable with that idea, however. That photo might be as close as he gets to being in the picture this season.
After Ball made a rare media interview on Monday and took an optimistic approach to trying to return at some point in the 2022-23 campaign, coach Billy Donovan was much more guarded on that process and insisted that the idea of just dropping him into the playoffs if that’s when he’s ready, was really not on the table.