Hornets guard LaMelo Ball has suffered a fractured bone in his right wrist and is expected to miss the rest of the season, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski (Twitter link). The team confirmed the injury and stated that Ball will be out indefinitely.
Ball was dealing with wrist soreness and underwent an MRI in San Antonio today which revealed the injury. He’ll seek a second opinion to confirm the diagnosis, with the fracture being located around the area of his thumb, Wojnarowski notes.
Ball has averaged 15.9 points, 5.9 rebounds and 6.1 assists per game in his first NBA season, making a strong case to be named Rookie of the Year. Now that he’ll miss the final two months of the season, it could open the door for Anthony Edwards or Tyrese Haliburton to make a run for that award.
The Hornets are 20-21 and have lost three straight contests. Ball’s injury could affect how the team approaches the trade deadline this week, perhaps reducing the odds of a Devonte’ Graham trade or a major splash for a big man.
Wow man. This Hornets team was so fun to watch. Sad
They really were…as a West coaster I enjoyed watching their games early before Showtime came on.
Not only sad news for ppl who like to watch them but big news for the East in general – doubt they’ll be able to make a strong push now. Ball was arguably their best all around player this year alongside Hayward
To Anthony Edwards and Tyrese Haliburton: Keep the pedal-to-the-metal and don’t look back!
Kerr is going to continue to use Wiseman in the dumbest possible ways, so he’s out of the running even though he easily could avg 25 a game if you just gave him the rock and let him storm to the bucket. He wins that 9 out of 10 times.
Strong stuff you’re smoking. Weissman do not start because he is not strong enough at this time so has a tendency to foul a lot. There has been several games he has fouled out.
Wiseman has fouled out 4 times this year, you can’t even spell his name and you feel like like insulting my intelligence? Great reply, youre like, really smart…
Passover is coming up, so even I might have gotten temporarily confused and spelled it “Weissman.”
Idk about that one, Marty… Wiseman really has a lack of post moves. Is erratic on his drives to the rim, and has trouble rebounding. He still has ways too go. That’s why Looney starts b/c his defense is way more polished and his IQ is visibly better than Wiseman’s.
By the time Wiseman develops into a great player (assuming he ever does) the rest of the team will already be in the twilight of their careers or will have already moved on. The Warriors would be smart to trade him now while it can still help the team, unless they plan on rebuilding around him.
Dude stfu the Roy just got season end injury and all u can talk about is the warriors show some dam respect fool no one round here has 1 oz of class
Lol dunking in my absence. Love it!
this absolutely sucks for what looks to be a really good young and up and coming teen in Charlotte wow man and they’re in a race for the division title too well if he does indeed miss the rest of the season you know maybe the hornets not purposely Tang but without lamelo they just go downhill and end up with another really high draft pick
Welll, it’s look though as RoY was handed to Edwards on a silver platter, now if he could just close it out.
Sad to see, the award was looking like it was going to shape up into a hell of a race between Ball and Ant.
Please. Zero percent chance Edwards is Rookie of the Year, Ball already won it.
There’s 30 games left, by end of season it will look like Ball barely played.
I repeat, zero percent chance.
I don’t agree with your 0% chance.
You really don’t understand how percentages work.
He was already making a case for making it a race.
Also, when was the last time someone won RoY only playing half the season.
Other players most definitely have a chance. Edwards is averaging 25 over the last 15 or so odd games and is definitely trending up. If he keeps it up, he can totally take it.
Just sad to see it couldn’t be a awesome race between Ball and an improving Ant.
Actually, he did play more than half a season. And it doesn’t matter how or why or when other players won it in the past. This season is not like other seasons and it won’t matter. Particularly if Charlotte starts being crushed with Ball not playing.
He is going to miss nearly 40% of the season. Simple as that.
Clearly you are a diehard Ball fan boy, and it is sad to see such a promising rookie star miss time.
But you also clearly do not live in reality. Isn’t guaranteed someone else wins it, however 0% chance puts you in daddy Lavar fanboy territory. Good luck with that.
So even without playing the final 30 games of the season LaMelo has already won ROY? Sounds like Lavar talking here. Am I right?
Agreed.
Its sad to see, because it was actually shaping up to possibly be an interesting race.
And now a big part of it is going to miss 40% of the season. Sadly that all but takes him out of the running unless every other rookie completely flops.
No, it doesn’t take him out of the running. Not even close. In 2017, Embiid got nearly a quarter of the first-place votes despite playing in only 31 out of 82 games. It won’t matter, Ball has played in enough games this season. His advanced stats dominate the other possible candidates and Charlotte has already started getting killed without Ball playing.
Guys. Zion came in 2nd last year and played how many games? Anything is possible.
Clearly Lavar had to find a different platform now that the media ignores him LOL.
All but = still a chance he wins.
Much more reasonable then your “NO NO NO 0%” hehawing over here.
Go back to trying to sell BBB.
Vegas says Edwards is going to win it now. I trust them more than you.
@Hawthorne Wingo…
Too true, too true! By now LaMelo has already won it, absolutely 0% chance any other rookie gets even close to him!
Just hand the trophy to LaMelo so we can move on to the next thing!
I don’t think you can hand it to Edwards yet, Halliburton has looked great, and there are plenty of rookies (Quickely, Williams, Bey) who are averaging 10+ PPG with better Assist or Rebounding numbers and much higher shooting percentages.
If he keeps up his recent streak, I don’t see others catching up.
Last 10: 24.9 Pts, 6.2 Reb, 2.7 A, 1.7 Stl
He could fall off, because Beasley and Dlo are coming back soon to take up minutes and shots. But this truly seems to be Kat and Ant’s team now.
Yes, his last game shooting 4 of 18 in another loss was very impressive.
Lol. 1 game in which he also had 10 rebounds and 6 assists.
Clearly 1 game makes all the difference vs the last near quarter of the current season. He had 20+ in 16 of his last 17 before that game. And that one he didn’t was 19 pts.
Edwards has actually pulled ahead of Ball in points and rebounds… but keep ignoring facts.
Voters now look at advanced stats and don’t care about really, really, really bad teams if a players is getting empty stats like Edwards is. Charlotte was 23-42 last season, they were a completely different team with Ball. It doesn’t matter what I think, it matters how the voters think. And that is how the voters think. The race is over, Ball won.
Acknowledges advanced stat voting, but doesn’t recognize missing 40% of the season.
I wonder if you are going to to attempt to sell crappy 500$ shoes as had as you are trying to sell its over and 0% chance.
Too bad neither is selling.
I guess this means Eric Collins will now need to intentionally call attention to himself by screaming even more about the other players…for example, even more hollering at the top of his lungs about the greatness of Bismack Biyombo.
There are other young fun players on the team, bro. Watch a Hornets game once in a while and you’d see
Can we just take 1 minute to show some class n respect 4 a guy every1 doubted who had a great season revitalize a bullshi team down in North Carolina. Who cares about the award right now still lot of basketball for now just moments of silence ppl work hard for this life n u can lose it in 1 second flat just remember that
If this post actually shows it means my TR ban is over.
I want to say I agree with the doctor. Ball is still a kid. It has to feel absolutely miserable to go from a rising star to being told you’ll have to sit on the sidelines. In a family that already has so much pressure, I hope mentally he is able to come through. He’s a special talent and I personally like to see great basketball from great players.
Wishing for a speedy recovery.
Thank u
It Wiseman played 30 mins. He could win it Ball or no Ball. Ball is avg 28.6 mins. AntMan is avg 30.1 mins. Halliburton is avg 29.6 mins.
You have to play to have a chance. Wiseman is avg
20.8 mins a gm.
Ball was leading in race. But Edwards has started to get going. Get well soon LaMelo. Wonder what Hornets do now at TD.
This is bad news for LaMelo and probably means a fight to the finish between Edwards and Haliburton for ROY. BUT it is somewhat good news for one man, Devonte Graham. He will likely get a chance to rebuild his value before hitting free agency this offseason. If he does well, he could make himself a LOT of money.
True. But it probably kills my proposed Clip’s trade.
You cares about ROY….. I mean really, how are some of you getting heated on this ?
We lost a good one today, everybody who loves the sport of basketball and not just some weird infatuation with their home team took a small L today
Dude, the sport of basketball will survive Lamelo’s injury. Take it down a notch.
Hmm, didnt you just take time outta your day to visit a LeBron thread and make a joke about him after he got hurt ….what notch is that?
My post pertains to the 20 posts above babbling about some stupid award that means next to nothing
He’s the real x factor for them. This will definitely impact their play.
Hali wins the game. Sorry guys, but edwarts shooting is struggle, his defense is worser than Hali, Quickley, Bane etc.
Hali will start the next 30 games, he make the team better and help the kings to winning games.
Ball is a good player. I wish him helpful y and a good new start in the next season. But the first games was strugs and the next teams he is Dpn.
No way for Roy
Damn that sucks. Liked Charlotte to potentially get that 5th spot, especially if they could add another wing shooter, I could have seen them going higher than that…still think they should move Graham, preferably for someone at that position.
Another idea could be to move him for a general asset, and maybe add a shooter like Glenn Robinson III, and I guess rely on the Martin twins, or maybe see if you can get more minutes for Jalen McDaniels