{"id":261854,"date":"2025-11-04T20:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/261854\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T20:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:54:11","slug":"hornets-lamelo-ball-ankle-out-tonight-vs-pelicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/261854\/","title":{"rendered":"Hornets&#8217; LaMelo Ball (ankle) out tonight vs. Pelicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1894959\" class=\"wp-image-1894959 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/lamelo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1894959\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LaMelo Ball is averaging 23.3 points and 9.8 assists per game this season.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte will be without its top playmaker as it visits the New Orleans Pelicans tonight (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/cha-vs-nop-0022500168\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">8 p.m. ET, NBA League Pass<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The Hornets <a href=\"https:\/\/ak-static.cms.nba.com\/referee\/injury\/Injury-Report_2025-11-04_02PM.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced Tuesday<\/a> that guard LaMelo Ball will miss the game due to right ankle impingement. Ball missed the Hornets\u2019 last game, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/uta-vs-cha-0022500150\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">126-103 win<\/a> against the Utah Jazz on Sunday, because of the same injury.<\/p>\n<p>Ball has not played since a Nov. 1 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves. He is averaging 23.3 points, 7.8 rebounds and 9.8 assists per game while shooting 43% overall and 33.3% on 3-pointers.<\/p>\n<p>The Hornets visit the Miami Heat on Friday and then will play six of their next 10 games at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LaMelo Ball is averaging 23.3 points and 9.8 assists per game this season. Charlotte will be without its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,121293,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-261854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-lamelo-ball-out","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}