Lonzo Ball Is The NBA’s Most Talked About Rookie In Years

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    In a summer that’s been relatively full of crazy, unpredictable headlines — like Paul George being sent to Oklahoma City, or Kyrie Irving requesting a trade away from a team that’s made three consecutive trips to the Finals — only one player has constantly stayed in the news cycle. And that player has yet to play a meaningful minute in the NBA.

    Lakers rookie point guard Lonzo Ball, for better or worse, has kept a steady presence in the media. From May 1 to July 30, the quiet, mild-mannered floor general was mentioned in a whopping 702 mainstream, published news stories, according to Media Cloud, an open-source platform that tracks the contents of online news — by far the most of any top-five player drafted the last five years. In fact, Ball’s American-mainstream-media mentions outpaced the combined total of Philadelphia’s Markelle Fultz’s and Boston’s Jayson Tatum’s — this year’s No. 1 and No. 3 picks.The duo had a combined 647 mentions in the American mainstream media during that span.

    read more https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/lonzo-ball-is-the-nbas-most-talked-about-rookie-in-years/
     

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