Report: Hornets’ LaMelo Ball out for remainder of season with multiple injuries

LaMelo Ball‘s season appears to be over.

The Charlotte Hornets‘ star guard is reportedly set to miss the remainder of the 2024-25 campaign to address ankle and wrist issues, per ESPN’s Shams Charania on Friday.

Charania added that Ball had played through his various ailments in recent weeks but upon consulting doctors, sitting out the final stretch of the season was the best course of action.

The 23-year-old had already been ruled out for Charlotte’s road game against the Toronto Raptors on Friday due to right ankle impingement.

Ball’s decision to sit out the Hornets’ final 10 games punctuates yet another injury-riddled year for the one-time all-star. He hasn’t amassed 50 appearances in a season since his second year in the league when he played a career-high 75 games.

The 2020 third-overall pick played in just 47 games this year, averaging a career-high 25.2 points with 4.9 rebounds, 7.4 assists and 1.1 steals in that span. Ball led the NBA with 11.2 three-point attempts per game and ranked fifth in makes at 3.8.

Ball has played in 231 games through five NBA seasons, averaging 21.0 points, 6.0 rebounds and 7.4 assists while shooting 36.5 per cent from distance in that span.

It’ll be the second year in a row in which the guard has been shut down early due to injury. He’ll now join Brandon Miller on the sidelines as the sophomore forward had previously been ruled out for the year due to a wrist injury of his own.

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