{"id":890754,"date":"2026-10-22T12:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T12:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/890754\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T12:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T12:38:13","slug":"espn-announcers-incredulous-over-lamelo-ball-non-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/890754\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN announcers incredulous over LaMelo Ball non-travel"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NBA season saw it\u2019s first full night of action on Wednesday with most of the league\u2019s teams playing their first game of the season. That meant we got our first look at LaMelo Ball teaming up with Anthony Edwards for the Minnesota Timberwolves.<\/p>\n

Our first look at NBA refereeing was a reminder that we still may have some rust to work off from the offseason.<\/p>\n

Ball had a strong start with the Timberwolves, scoring 16 points in the first half on 4-8 shooting from downtown. And in a replay on one of those trifectas, a signature stepback, the ESPN lead announcing crew<\/a> of Mike Breen, Tim Legler, and Richard Jefferson were all in amazement at what they saw.<\/p>\n

The most obvious<\/a> travel in the history of NBA basketball.<\/p>\n

As Ball gathered himself and stepped behind the three-point line, he appeared to take at least four steps and then a jump stop before going up for the shot. As Legler was talking about Ball\u2019s distance shooting, the announcers saw the travel and then yelled out in unison, \u201cThat\u2019s a travel!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a travel.\u201d<\/p>\n

How many steps from LaMelo? \ud83d\ude2d https:\/\/t.co\/pmuhYg1zQb<\/p>\n

\u2014 SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) October 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Breen exclaimed twice, \u201cThat has to be called\u201d as he was in disbelief over the no-call.<\/p>\n

NBA referees certainly have a reputation of turning a blind eye to what should be called as traveling violations. But while most fans probably don\u2019t mind some leniency here and there to help the game flow, moments like this are just plain egregious. LaMelo Ball will break all the NBA scoring and shooting records in league history if he\u2019s allowed to shuffle his feet and create this kind of space without having to take a dribble.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not quite Russell Westbrook calmly walking the ball up the floor and seemingly forgetting the rules of basketball, but it\u2019s definitely a worthy addition to the \u201cTravels but they get increasingly outrageous<\/a>\u201d collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA season saw it\u2019s first full night of action on Wednesday with most of the league\u2019s teams…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":890755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[25179,257532,11951,95478,99,76003],"class_list":["post-890754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-lamelo-ball","tag-mike-breen","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-richard-jefferson","tag-sports","tag-tim-legler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}