LaMelo Ball is being one of the firm candidates among all the rookies of this 2020/21 NBA season to win the Rookie of the Year award at the end of the year for his good work with Charlotte Hornets, a team that selected him with the No. 3 pick of the last Draft.
The player is averaging 13.6 points, 5.8 rebounds and 6.0 assists per game having played 23 in total, and only three of them as a starter (the most recent three). In addition, in his last appearance he comes from his best performance so far in the NBA, against the Utah Jazz, with 34 points, four rebounds, eight assists, 4-9 in triples and zero losses.
It is precisely one of the Jazz players who has recently publicly praised the figure of LaMelo. And it is none other than Donovan Mitchell, the leader of a franchise that is 1st in the Western Conference, ahead of the Los Angeles Clippers and the Los Angeles Lakers, with the best record of the competition: 18-5.
“I’m not going to lie, I’m very impressed with LaMelo Ball’s performance at this start to the season. It’s not just his ability to create plays, assist, score and his competitiveness. It’s the joy he gives off when he’s playing basketball. He hasn’t There has been no game where I haven’t seen him smile, “Mitchell said.
Hornets who dream of the playoffs
Charlotte is in 9th position in the Eastern Conference with a record of 10 wins and 13 losses. With the incorporation of the ‘play-in’, it will be very difficult that at the end of the season the franchise led by James Borrego is not fighting for the playoff positions, especially seeing the performance of its best players: Gordon Hayward, himself LaMelo, Terry Rozier …
A small sample of what LaMelo Ball is doing in its first season in the #NBA
Lots of class —-pic.twitter.com/chIGTEeCOl
– NBA court (@CanchaNba) January 31, 2021