CHARLOTTE, N.C. — With the ink on the richest contract in Charlotte Hornets’ history dry, LaMelo Ball can purchase just about anything he wants.
Ball could easily add to his already impressive collection of fine automobiles, giving him another canvas to be painted with exotic colors. But if the Hornets’ star point guard keeps filling up the garage with new toys, there’s one thing that likely won’t happen: rookie Brandon Miller getting behind the wheel for a test drive.
“Driving the car, yeah, I don’t know about that,” Ball said Wednesday during a press conference at Spectrum Center. “My family and everybody, they know how I get. I think I get it from my pops. We don’t really let nobody drive the cars.