Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig turnedbasketball.com. NS
Answer
turnedbasketball.com. 5 NS ns1.turnedbasketball.com.
turnedbasketball.com. 5 NS ns2.turnedbasketball.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.turnedbasketball.com. 5 A 5.79.92.213
ns2.turnedbasketball.com. 5 A 5.79.92.210
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0