{"id":489427,"date":"2026-02-19T05:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T05:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/489427\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T05:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T05:17:12","slug":"charlotte-hornets-star-lamelo-ball-involved-in-car-accident-hummer-smashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/489427\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte Hornets star LaMelo Ball involved in car accident, Hummer smashed"},"content":{"rendered":"

NBA<\/a> star LaMelo Ball was involved in a car accident that totalled his custom Hummer and left one person with non-life threatening injuries.<\/p>\n

The Hornets point guard was driving in Uptown, Charlotte, with vision capturing the moment he and another vehicle collided head on.<\/p>\n

The incident left his tricked out 2022 GMC Hummer EV missing its front left tyre and crumpled the front panel. Each tyre has a custom orange rim with “1 of 1” written on it. <\/p>\n

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\"Lamelo<\/p>\n

Lamelo Ball’s smashed Hummer.\u00a0Twitter<\/p>\n

The driver of the sedan KIA’s condition is unknown, though the car also sustained heavy damage. The driver reportedly came over to check on Ball after the incident.<\/p>\n

Ball reportedly was picked up by somebody in a Lamborghini shortly after the crash and seemingly escaped the incident without serious injuries.<\/p>\n

Both vehicles were towed away from the scene.<\/p>\n

Local reports out of Charlotte say he was travelling west on Trade Street and tried to take a left on a one-way road, leading to the collision. <\/p>\n

It remains unclear who was at fault for the incident.<\/p>\n

\"LaMelo<\/p>\n

LaMelo Ball of the Charlotte Hornets.\u00a0NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Charlotte plays Houston at home on Friday morning (AEDT), with Ball’s status for the game unknown at this stage.<\/p>\n

Ball has averaged 19.3 points per game so far this season for the improved Hornets.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old spent the 2019-2020 season playing for the Illawarra Hawks in the NBL before being drafted by Charlotte.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NBA star LaMelo Ball was involved in a car accident that totalled his custom Hummer and left one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-489427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489427","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=489427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}