{"id":484408,"date":"2026-02-19T09:07:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=484408"},"modified":"2026-02-19T09:07:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:07:04","slug":"report-lamelo-ball-uninjured-after-car-crash-in-downtown-charlotte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/report-lamelo-ball-uninjured-after-car-crash-in-downtown-charlotte\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: LaMelo Ball uninjured after car crash in downtown Charlotte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1345\" data-end=\"1589\">A person familiar with the situation said <strong data-start=\"1387\" data-end=\"1402\">LaMelo Ball<\/strong> was not injured after being involved in a two-car crash in downtown Charlotte on Wednesday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren\u2019t authorized to discuss details.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1591\" data-end=\"1823\">A police report was not immediately available. Video obtained by WSOC-TV showed Ball\u2019s camouflage-colored, custom-made Hummer colliding at an intersection shortly before 5 p.m., with the truck later seen missing its left front tire.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1825\" data-end=\"2021\">The <strong data-start=\"1829\" data-end=\"1840\">Hornets<\/strong> practiced earlier in the day and return Thursday night at home against Houston. The report also notes Charlotte has seen other pro athletes involved in car crashes in recent years.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">LaMelo Ball was in a car accident this Wednesday afternoon in Uptown Charlotte.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWitnesses said they saw Ball get out of the Hummer and get in a Lamborghini.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p5OMppY72v\">pic.twitter.com\/p5OMppY72v<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ahmed\/The Ears\/IG: BigBizTheGod \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddf4 (@big_business_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/big_business_\/status\/2024244311143899532?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"726\" data-end=\"951\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Charlotte Hornets point guard was not hurt after a two-car collision Wednesday, per a person familiar with the situation. Charlotte hosts the Houston Rockets on Thursday night coming out of the All-Star break<\/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":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-484408","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\/484408","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=484408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484408\/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=484408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484408"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=484408"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=484408"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=484408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}