{"id":478474,"date":"2026-01-12T11:22:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T10:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=478474"},"modified":"2026-01-12T11:22:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T10:22:20","slug":"charlotte-hornets-perkins-says-lamelo-ball-and-coach-charles-lee-are-not-aligned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/charlotte-hornets-perkins-says-lamelo-ball-and-coach-charles-lee-are-not-aligned\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte Hornets, Perkins says LaMelo Ball and coach Charles Lee are \u201cnot aligned\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1641\" data-end=\"1865\">The report points to <strong data-start=\"1662\" data-end=\"1682\">Kendrick Perkins<\/strong> describing growing tension between <strong data-start=\"1718\" data-end=\"1733\">LaMelo Ball<\/strong> and Hornets coach <strong data-start=\"1752\" data-end=\"1767\">Charles Lee<\/strong>.<br data-start=\"1768\" data-end=\"1771\" \/>Perkins argues the disconnect is real, saying the energy between the two simply isn\u2019t there.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1867\" data-end=\"2087\">In his framing, Ball\u2019s reduced role and minutes are not accidental, but a deliberate move tied to bigger-picture considerations.<br data-start=\"1995\" data-end=\"1998\" \/>Perkins presents a stark choice: either explore a Ball trade or move on from the coach.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2089\" data-end=\"2346\">Ball, the No. 3 pick in the 2020 draft, is in his sixth season with the franchise and is averaging a career low in minutes per game.<br data-start=\"2221\" data-end=\"2224\" \/>The piece notes that if a coach decides the star \u201cis not his guy,\u201d the situation typically reaches a crossroads quickly.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1178\" data-end=\"1327\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hoopswire.com\/hornets-lamelo-ball-coach-charles-lee-reportedly-not-aligned\/\"><strong>Source: <em data-start=\"1185\" data-end=\"1272\">Hoops Wire<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kendrick Perkins claims LaMelo Ball and Charles Lee are far from being on the same page in Charlotte<\/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":[92],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-478474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Charlotte-Hornets.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478474","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=478474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478474"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=478474"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=478474"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=478474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}