LaMelo Ball’s night in Toronto ended much earlier than the Hornets expected. The star guard exited less than three minutes into the second half after tweaking his ankle, halting what had been one of ...

Toronto’s early-season formula is working. Brandon Ingram is settling into rhythm, Scottie Barnes has taken a clear leap, and the supporting cast is producing efficiently. Yet point guard continues to ...

LaMelo Ball looked like the franchise player the Charlotte Hornets desperately needed at the start of his career. An All-Star season at age-20 and flashes of elite shot-making and playmaking ...

Not only are the Hornets struggling on the court, but Charlotte is trying to managing controversy off it. A report from Yahoo Sports' Kelly Iko last week made the explosive claim that the Hornets' ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — LaMelo Ball extinguished the flames on the latest rumor surrounding his future with the Charlotte Hornets. Speaking after Friday’s practice in preparation for Saturday’s matinee ...

The LaMelo Ball trade rumors are heating up, and the Charlotte Hornets star wants the NBA world to know that recent reports aren’t true. The star guard took to the social media platform X on Thursday ...

ESPN analyst Zach Kram examines which players are almost definitely in, who's on the bubble and who could miss out on another All-Star appearance.

Before he was a frustrated All-Star stuck on a listless Charlotte Hornets team, LaMelo Ball was just a highly-regarded prospect heading into the 2020 NBA Draft. With research being conducted mostly ...

The LaMelo Ball era with the Charlotte Hornets might be nearing its end. According to Yahoo NBA reporter Kelly Iko, the 24-year-old, one-time All-Star guard has “grown increasingly frustrated” with ...

The first month of the 2025-26 NBA season has almost felt like a practice run for the LaMelo Ball trade sweepstakes, which seemingly began Thursday when Yahoo reported that Charlotte's star point ...

We return with a star-studded edition of our Trade Rumor Rankings series, in which we rank the five players who have appeared most often on our Trade Rumors page over the previous week. Today, we ...

The Hornets are struggling, currently ranked No. 12 in the Eastern Conference with a 4-11 record. LaMelo Ball is reportedly frustrated with recent results and open to being traded away from the ...