Getty Images/Ringer illustration The NBA's most imaginative player has us dreaming once again, showing off new dimensions to his game and familiar flashes of his supernatural promise Basketball offers many avenues of dominion over one's opponent. Physical dominance is the most apparent, but the most evocative path is almost psychosocial. That is to say, it's thrilling to witness an offensive player challenge a defender to a duel of imaginations, wherein basketball becomes a one-sided guessing game. Can you think the way I do? Can you move exactly in the way you envision that I can? Or am I about to blow your mind? I used to think about this dynamic a lot with Allen Iverson. This past week, I've considered it as it pertains to LaMelo Ball, who is in the midst of a delightful heater in his long-awaited return to play. Case in point: Game 2 of the Charlotte Hornets' regular season. Hornets-Hawks in Atlanta, third quarter. An errant pass from Clint Capela is intercepted by LaMelo, who ambles into the frontcourt with Dyson Daniels and Trae Young as Atlanta's only lines of defense. Ball takes an elongated gallop step right on the Hawks logo at center court, a signal that the blossoming...