FEBRUARY 28: Ball will miss the rest of the season after fracturing his right ankle, confirms Shams Charania of The Athletic (Twitter link).
FEBRUARY 27: Hornets star guard LaMelo Ball suffered a fractured right ankle against Detroit on Monday night, the team’s PR department tweets.
Though no recovery timeline has been formally announced, it’s safe to say it’s a season-ending injury. The non-contact injury occurred when Ball fell awkwardly after a behind-the-back dribble during the third quarter.
Ball has been snakebit by ankle injuries this season. He sprained his left ankle multiple times.
His first ankle injury occurred during a preseason game on October 10 and he was diagnosed with a Grade 2 sprain the following day.
Ball missed the first 13 games of the regular season with the injury, then re-injured his ankle in his third game back on November 16. He missed an additional 11 games while recovering from the second sprain before returning to action in December. Ball sprained the ankle once more in mid-January.
Ball has appeared in just 36 games this season. He was averaging 23.4 points, 8.5 assists and 6.4 rebounds per contest entering Monday’s game. Charlotte is on a five-game winning streak after defeating the Pistons but will have to finish out most or all of the schedule without its top player.
Ball is still on his rookie contract through next season. He’ll be eligible for a rookie scale extension of up to five years this offseason.
You gotta be kidding me! Jokes about tanking aside this is huge disappointment. Always in favor of exciting basketball. Bummer.
tough
The Glass Family
It checks out
Oouuuuuucchhhhhhh ……
It’s Wembanyama or Scoot ….. now.
dang it man
the kid is fun to watch
he’s got skills
even if he looks clumsy as heck sometimes
gosh darn it
this stinks
nightmare season
continues
No way hornets offer him 200 mil. Would be foolish. Pelicans already knew what they were getting into with Zion and probably regret giving him all that money now. Give me someone slightly worse but that can play 75 games a year. No point in paying very talented bums like Kawhi, Zion, or Gordon Hayword a ton of money when they barely play
Just have to wonder if maybe he needs a change of footwear.
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Seems fishy…
Hornets need to trade Ball, Gordon, Bridges. Put the past in the past, move-on, and never, ever look back.