“I was shot in the face by accident, April 5, 1988,” Ham said Monday. “You go through something like that, it’s going to be one of two things. It’s going to make you fearful or fearless. It made me fearless. I don’t feel no pressure. It’s basketball.” Coaching LeBron and the Lakers, he said, isn’t pressure. “This here is a challenge,” Ham said. Fans will feel a connection with Ham, who worked for the Lakers organization under Mike Brown and built a bond with Kobe Bryant before spending a decade alongside Mike Budenholzer. Ham choked up when speaking about the Milwaukee Bucks head coach, but said he told his former boss, “Well, at least you dropped me off where you picked me up at.”