I was dead wrong about LaMelo Ball. But that doesn’t mean he’s doing everything right

Let me start by falling on my own sword and we’ll get to the “but” later. Here goes:

I was completely wrong about whether the Charlotte Hornets should draft LaMelo Ball with the No. 3 overall pick in the 2020 NBA draft.

Picking Ball was the correct thing to do, and the Hornets have themselves a potential future star in this 19-year-old human highlight film.

Consider this my mea culpa. Every time Melo has another splashy game, lots of people gleefully send me links to my own draft-night column when the Hornets drafted Ball. The online headline: “Hornets dropped the ball by drafting LaMelo. He won’t be the star Charlotte needs.”

Then they’ll ask me something like: “Do you remember this?”

Yes, I…