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    Bill Plaschke: Lonzo Ball's journey has just started, now it has to catch up with expectations

    by By Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times Sep 26, 2017 3 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - He was predicted to be transcendent. He was judged a basketball genius. He was compared to Magic Johnson by, well, Magic Johnson.

    With cameras at each elbow and praise from every corner, Lonzo Ball was feted through Los Angeles Lakers media day Monday as if he were on a victory tour.

    Everyone forgot this teenager's journey hasn't even started.

    "It's a lot of attention for one person," said Kentavious Caldwell-Pope.

    Ball was heralded as an All-Star, a player who elevates his entire team, a guy who has already walked in and changed

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