Former lottery pick Lonzo Ball will be playing for the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2025-26, but it seems he knows very
Former lottery pick Lonzo Ball will be playing for the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2025-26, but it seems he knows very little about the place he now lives in or where it is on a map of the United States.
Much of the team that helped the Cavaliers earn the best record in the Eastern Conference last season will be back for their latest campaign. However, one of the most notable additions this summer was the No. 2 overall pick in the 2017 NBA Draft, Lonzo Ball.
While the six-year veteran has played in Cleveland many times as a visitor. It seems he had no idea where the heck it was located. “I like Cleveland. I keep joking with the guys—I didn’t even know Cleveland had water. So, um, it’s been nice getting out of the house,” Ball said this week during his training camp media scrum.
If he was surprised about major cities in Nebraska, Kansas, or Missouri having large bodies of water, that might be understandable. However, Cleveland is in Ohio. And much of the northern part of the state rubs up against one of the largest bodies of water in the Americas, Lake Erie.
“I like Cleveland, I keep joking with the guys, I didn’t even know Cleveland had water.”
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Making fans wonder about what Ball learned about the Great Lakers in elementary school is the fact that the Ohio city that is right on Lake Erie is none other than Cleveland.
Ball is a native of California, a state that has its entire Western border against the Pacific Ocean. Obviously, that is a much larger and more noticeable body of water. But you would still imagine that in his years of traveling around the country as a high-level basketball player, he would have figured out about the Great Lakes, and the cities and states next to them.
In the end, the revelation is positive because it makes Ball appreciate the city he now plays in. Plus, he had some other compliments about his short stay in Cleveland, OH: “The weather’s been good. I know that’s not going to last too much longer, but the food’s been good, people are great, man. I have no complaints,” said Ball.
The Cleveland Cavaliers kick off their preseason schedule on Oct. 7 against Ball’s former team, the Chicago Bulls.
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