When former Blue Devil Brandon Ingram was traded to the New Orleans Pelicans by the Los Angeles Lakers in 2019 as part of the deal to move malcontent Anthony Davis, no one was sure what to make of it.
Ingram had his moments with the Lakers to be sure. There is a video floating around where he stops the Kings from inbounding the ball four times in a row. True, three of them he kicked away, but he still did it (the fourth he picked off by hand). Then-teammate LeBron James loved it.
A lot of it wasn’t as happy.