Nothing Kemba Walker does on a basketball court is random.
That wasn’t always the case, and he’d be the first to say so. Now there’s a plan inside his head no matter what the score, situation or time remaining. He’s probing, he’s calculating, he’s formulating, and that’s what has made him one of the NBA’s most dangerous scorers so far this young season.
Saturday, with five-tenths of a second remaining, the calculation was something that is counter-intuitive: miss a free throw. The Hornets led by one against the team that has been their tormentors for so long.