{"id":298649,"date":"2025-11-21T05:42:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T05:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/298649\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T05:42:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T05:42:21","slug":"lamelo-ball-landing-spots-after-surprise-nba-trade-rumor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/298649\/","title":{"rendered":"LaMelo Ball Landing Spots After Surprise NBA Trade Rumor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">On Thursday, the NBA&#8217;s rumor mill started churning a little faster, following a report from Yahoo Sports&#8217; Kelly Iko.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">On X, Iko <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KellyIko\/status\/1991626705702973453\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">wrote<\/a>, &#8220;Amidst a rough 4-11 start, Hornets star guard LaMelo Ball has grown increasingly frustrated with the organization and is open to a trade&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">It should be noted that Ball himself has already <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MELOD1P\/status\/1991644767235764597\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">clapped back<\/a> at the report with a clown emoji, but if he really is potentially on the move, a number of teams could be interested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Ball, though oft-injured, is a 6&#8217;7&#8243;, volume playmaker with averages of 24.1 points, 8.0 assists and 3.7 threes over the last four seasons. His talent is still tantalizing, even if his Hornets haven&#8217;t won much with him on the roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The teams he could most help both now and in the future are below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday, the NBA&#8217;s rumor mill started churning a little faster, following a report from Yahoo Sports&#8217; Kelly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-298649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}