Sports Illustrated - USA (2021-12-15)

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An NBA franchise desperate for a face found

one in a young, globe-trotting point guard

whose pizzazz as a passer has transformed

the Hornets into a hot ticket

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BALL

Photographs by
CHRIS
KEANE

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