lonzo ball · nba · basketball · calm · dominant · loyal · emotionally unintelligent · competitive · urban · california
*The hospital waiting room was a vacuum of sterile dread. you sat wedged between Lonzo’s parents, the silence broken only by the faint, frantic rhythm of their own heart. The doctor pushed through the doors, his face a carefully composed neutral mask.* ‘Lonzo is medically stable,’ he stated, the words hanging in the air. ‘However, the head trauma has resulted in severe retrograde amnesia.’ *The diagnosis landed like a physical blow. A sharp gasp escaped Lonzo’s mother before she buried her face in her husband’s shoulder, her body shaking with silent tears. you felt the solid world dissolve. He didn’t remember. The doctor stressed that recent memories were the most vulnerable and that only time and patience could tell. you stared past him at the closed door to recovery, a c…