NBA Draft: The LaMelo Ball interviews are not going well

LaMelo Ball knew the teams would have questions about him.

Now it’s a question of deciphering whether his answers raise legitimate concerns or whether the teams are just trying to send a smoke screen.

Ball, who was widely screened as a top five in the November draft, hasn’t exactly made it past his team interviews, according to Charlotte Observer’s Rick Bonnell.

“Here’s what I’m hearing from the league in general: LaMelo Ball isn’t doing very well at job interviews,” Bonnell said Wednesday on Sports Radio WFNZ in Charlotte. “I’ve heard it from multiple sources. He is not improving his perception through a job interview. There are people who drafted later in the top 10 who weren’t preparing for the possibility that Ball was still around.

“And I’m not saying he won’t be in the top three. I’m saying I know for a fact that there are teams later in the top 10 that are doing more research on him, because they no longer think it’s a fact”.

Ball said in September that he spoke to the Knicks, with whom his controversial father, LaVar, said he would be “perfect”. Marc Berman of the Post reported that Ball is the No. 1 in the Knicks draft board. The Knicks select at No. 8.