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Reading Lonzo Ball, Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates in the same sentence is a weird sight. What does Lonzo have to do with the two computer geniuses? For Los Angeles Lakers GM Rob Pelinka, they all have a common trait: transcendence.
It might be too early to provide any conclusion about Ball's game — he is just half a season into his NBA career — but Pelinka is no short of compliments for the rookie. In a recent interview for Connected With… at Spectrum SportsNet, Pelinka spoke about Ball, offering high praise for the 20-year old as transcribed by Silver Screen and Roll:
“The first thing I said about Lonzo, I said he’s a transcendent talent… You can’t just look at his shooting percentage, or you can’t just look at the number of points he’s scoring, to asses his impact on our team… I liken it to – he’s such a transcendent talent – you look at great visionaries like Steve Jobs with Apple, or you look at Bill Gates with Microsoft. If you went and pulled Steve Jobs’ college transcript at Reed College where he went, or you look at Bill Gates’ college transcript at Harvard, it would show someone that may have struggled and that dropped out.”
Does Ball really belong with them? His vision, Pelinka says, is what also makes him great:
“Those great visionaries have a way of having an impact beyond how most people get judged, and I think Lonzo’s like that. To experience his impact on the Lakers you really have to go to a game and you have to see just the way he leads our team. The way he defends and disrupts passes, and rebounds and pushes pace.”
The GM does not seem to be concerned by Ball's ups and downs through his first games, and said he feels Ball's impact right away:
“We’ve just been thrilled with the impact he’s had on our team, and we know the growth is going to continue and we’re just still ecstatic about Lonzo Ball.”
As long as his father stops interfering into Lonzo's business on the court, rest assured the youngster will deliver epic performances.
