{"id":492034,"date":"2026-02-20T08:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T08:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/492034\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T08:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T08:48:07","slug":"hornets-lamelo-ball-feels-blessed-that-he-wasnt-hurt-in-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/492034\/","title":{"rendered":"Hornets’ LaMelo Ball feels ‘blessed’ that he wasn’t hurt in car crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Charlotte Hornets<\/a> point guard LaMelo Ball<\/a> had 11 points, seven rebounds and seven assists in a 105-101 loss<\/a> to the Houston Rockets<\/a> on Thursday night, one day after being involved in a two-car crash<\/a> in Charlotte.<\/p>\n

“Fortunately everybody is cool, so blessings,” Ball said of the crash following the game. “God is great.”<\/p>\n

Ball was driving through an intersection when his camouflage-colored, custom-made Hummer collided with another vehicle Wednesday, according to video obtained by WSOC-TV<\/a> in Charlotte. The station later posted video of Ball, wearing an aqua-colored Hornets hoodie<\/a>, getting out his truck and into a black Lamborghini before being driven away.<\/p>\n

Police were on the scene at the time.<\/p>\n

When asked why he left the scene, Ball said, “Nah, you gotta check in on that.”<\/p>\n

A police report has not been made available.<\/p>\n

There was no information available on the driver of the other car involved in the collision, although video showed a person calmly get out of the car and begin walking toward Ball’s truck after the crash.<\/p>\n

When asked about the other person, Ball said, “I seen her get straight out of the car.”<\/p>\n

Video showed the left front tire of Ball’s truck was missing.<\/p>\n

“I’m alive and blessed,” Ball said. “God is great, like I said.”<\/p>\n

Ball is just the latest professional sports athlete to be involved in a car crash in Charlotte.<\/p>\n

Former Carolina Panthers<\/a> quarterback Cam Newton fractured his back<\/a> in a 2014 crash in which he flipped his pickup truck near Bank of America Stadium — less than a mile from where Ball’s crash occurred.<\/p>\n

And in 2024, Panthers current backup quarterback Andy Dalton<\/a> injured his thumb<\/a> when he was involved in a two-car crash in Charlotte.<\/p>\n

Former Hornets guard Bobby Phills was killed in a car crash at age 30 following a practice on Jan. 12, 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Charlotte Hornets point guard LaMelo Ball had 11 points, seven rebounds and seven assists in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-492034","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\/492034","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=492034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}