{"id":359663,"date":"2023-11-29T09:17:20","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T08:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=359663"},"modified":"2023-11-29T09:17:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T08:17:20","slug":"charlotte-hornets-lamelo-ball-suffers-serious-ankle-sprain-extended-absence-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/charlotte-hornets-lamelo-ball-suffers-serious-ankle-sprain-extended-absence-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte Hornets&#8217; LaMelo Ball Suffers Serious Ankle Sprain: Extended Absence Expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlotte Hornets star LaMelo Ball has suffered a serious sprain in his right ankle and is likely to miss extended time.<\/p>\n<p>Tests show Ball avoided a fracture in the ankle, which required surgery last season, and a cautious approach is expected.<\/p>\n<p>Currently in a walking boot and on crutches, Ball has had a fabulous start to the season: averaging 24.7 points, 8.2 assists, and 5.5 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s scored 30 points or more in seven of the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ball, who is currently in a walking boot and crutches, has had a fabulous start to the season: 24.7 points, 8.2 assists and 5.5 rebounds per game. He\u2019s scored 30 points or more in seven of the last 10 games. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fJQsclDNcJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/fJQsclDNcJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1729625528918048809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlotte Hornets star LaMelo Ball has suffered a serious sprain in his right ankle and is likely to miss extended time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":206613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"typology":[179],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-359663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-injury"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/hornets-logo.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359663","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359663"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=359663"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=359663"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=359663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}