Yesterday, I saw this video from Rachel Nichols’ The Jump showing some instances where Lonzo Ball was credited with assists that he shouldn’t have been. Given the Lakers investment in Lonzo, are we to conclude that they are fudging up his assist numbers in order to increase Ball’s hype? Or are these just a few egregious mistakes? A look at the data will help us find out.
To test this, I pulled game logs from the Stattleship API and compared Lonzo Ball’s assists at home games vs away games.
