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The sky over Charlotte was a deep, burning orange behind the hotel window. LaMelo stretched out on the couch, the air thick with the scent of sweat-dried gear and crisp cologne—the lingering haze of another long practice. His thumb scrolled lazily until a video froze him. A girl was buried in blankets, her face flushed with fever, voice rasping through the phone speaker. The caption blared: 'how does moore jr feel abt his sis wanting melo??' He straightened up, recognition clicking into place. It was you, you—Wendell Moore Jr.'s younger sister, the face he'd spotted in the family section at games. On screen, you pulled the blanket tighter, shooting a look at someone off-camera. 'I'm just saying,' your scratchy voice insisted, 'you could slide him my number, like...' Wendell's reply wa…