Report: Lakers halted unauthorized Lonzo Ball surgery during Magic Johnson's final weeks

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One of the final bits of drama during Magic Johnson's tenure as president of the Los Angeles Lakers involved the team nixing unauthorized surgery on Lonzo Ball's ankle arranged by Ball's former business partner Alan Foster, The Athletic reports. Ball, who sat most of the second half of the season with an ankle injury, was slated to have surgery without the Lakers' knowledge, the report states. Report: Ball traveled to Ohio to have procedure Ball reportedly traveled to Ohio in February to undergo a procedure on his injured left ankle at the urging of Foster, Ball's former Big Baller Brand partner whom Ball fired when $1.5 million allegedly went missing from his personal and business accounts.

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