Wallace is kind of applying “Ball don’t lie” to his larger endeavors. This part can get lost in the mythology: He always was known as a great teammate. “It can go a lot deeper than the actual statement itself,” Wallace said of his credo. “When the ball don’t lie, you can look at it as, OK, if I put that hard work in with shooting, what’s going to happen? The ball is going to go in more. If I’m doing a lot of hard work, in the gym, in the weight room, I’m putting that hard work in — then throughout your career, that ball is not going to lie. It can mean many things.”