{"id":435420,"date":"2025-03-28T22:53:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T21:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=435420"},"modified":"2025-03-28T22:53:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T21:53:46","slug":"charlotte-hornets-lamelo-ball-out-for-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/charlotte-hornets-lamelo-ball-out-for-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte Hornets&#8217; LaMelo Ball out for season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1131\" data-end=\"1547\"><strong data-start=\"1144\" data-end=\"1165\">Charlotte Hornets<\/strong> star <strong data-start=\"1171\" data-end=\"1186\">LaMelo Ball<\/strong> will <strong data-start=\"1192\" data-end=\"1223\">miss the rest of the season<\/strong> to undergo <strong data-start=\"1235\" data-end=\"1259\">two minor procedures<\/strong> on his <strong data-start=\"1267\" data-end=\"1276\">ankle<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1281\" data-end=\"1290\">wrist<\/strong>, per <strong data-start=\"1296\" data-end=\"1304\">ESPN<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1131\" data-end=\"1547\">Ball had been playing through pain before doctors recommended surgery. He ends a career-best campaign, becoming the <strong data-start=\"1422\" data-end=\"1451\">first Hornets player ever<\/strong> to average <strong data-start=\"1463\" data-end=\"1490\">25 points and 7 assists<\/strong> in a season. Full recovery is expected for the summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1549\" data-end=\"1567\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Team doctors and outside specialists concluded that the two procedures will allow Ball to heal and have a full offseason. The decision ends Ball\u2019s career year in scoring. He is the first player in Hornets history to average 25 points and 7 assists in a season, per ESPN research. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/seU0hN6QKE\">https:\/\/t.co\/seU0hN6QKE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1905723084776382510?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2025<\/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>The Hornets star ends his career-best season early to fully recover and be ready for offseason training<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372676,"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-435420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-injury"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Charlotte Hornets&#039; 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