{"id":190959,"date":"2020-12-25T16:11:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T15:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=190959"},"modified":"2020-12-25T16:11:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T15:11:59","slug":"lavar-ball-says-hornets-need-to-quit-messing-around-and-name-lamelo-as-starting-point-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/lavar-ball-says-hornets-need-to-quit-messing-around-and-name-lamelo-as-starting-point-guard\/","title":{"rendered":"LaVar Ball says Hornets need to quit messing around and name LaMelo as starting point guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LaMelo Ball debuted in the NBA in loss against the Cleveland Cavaliers.<br \/>\nThe third pick of the 2020 NBA draft came off the bench ending the game with zero points in 16\u2019 on a 0-for-5 shooting night.<br \/>\nBefore the game his father LaVar spoke with TMZ saying that his son has to be in the starting five.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2020\/12\/24\/lavar-ball-lamelo-liangelo-nba-charlotte-hornets-james-harden\/\">Per TMZ<\/a>, Lavar Ball says the Charlotte Hornets need to quit messing around and name his son Melo as the starting point guard. We saw LaVar at a Big Baller Brand holiday charity event in L.A. on Wednesday before Melo&#8217;s first NBA game as a pro and asked him about Charlotte&#8217;s starting 5.<\/p>\n<p>LaVar says bluntly that Melo deserves a starting role right now &#8212; explaining, &#8220;If [Melo is] your marquee guy, what marquee guy don\u2019t start?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LaVar says bluntly that Melo deserves a starting role right now &#8212; explaining, &#8220;If [Melo is] your marquee guy, what marquee guy don\u2019t start?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-190959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190959"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=190959"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=190959"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=190959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}