LaMelo Ball
LaMelo Ball is a professional basketball player for the Charlotte Hornets. He was selected in the first round of the 2020 NBA Draft after playing previously in the Lithuanian Basketball League, the Junior Basketball Association and the Australian-based National Basketball League.
In his debut NBA season, LaMelo was named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team and won Rookie of the Year honors. LaMelo’s brother, Lonzo Ball, also plays in the NBA for the Chicago Bulls.
- Current team: Charlotte Hornets
- Position: Point Guard
- Drafted: 2020 by Charlotte Hornets
- Shooting hand: Right
- Birthday: August 22, 2001
- Hometown: Anaheim, California
- Height: 6’6”
- High school: Chino Hills and SPIRE Academy
- Net worth: $10 million
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The NBA All-Star rosters are finally set, as the league announced the reserves for the mid-season games that will be played on February 16th. There are notable snubs every year, guys who put up big numbers but are left out of the honors, and the 2024-25 season is no different. Who Are The Biggest Snubs […]
Across the last two weeks of NBA basketball, the Charlotte Hornets played their best stretch of the season. They won four of seven games, placing 14th in net rating (plus-1.6) over that time frame, compared to 25th (minus-5.6) on the season. Mark Williams, finally healthy after battling a nagging foot injury, has played some of […]
No player in the NBA shoots more three pointers per game than LaMelo Ball. The Charlotte Hornets rank third in the league in three-point attempts, behind only the Celtics and Bulls, and Ball is a big contributor to that statistic. In the 26 games that he has played in so far in 2024-25, the 23-year-old […]
Stephen Curry has moved ahead of Luka Doncic in the latest All-Star fan voting, so he could be starting once again. Doncic and Shai-Gilgeous Alexander were the leading vote-getters among West guards after the first returns, but it’s possible the Slovenian’s absence due to a calf injury has seen him drop down the pecking order. […]
Potential can be challenging to evaluate. We must attempt to peek into the future, extrapolating past information to predict what is to come. That’s what the ESPN Top 25 under 25 aims to do, ranking the 25 highest potential players in the league under a certain age threshold. As with all of ESPN’s lists, the […]
As the NBA approaches the quarter poll of the season, teams and individual players alike have provided many reasons to be thankful. Despite a slew of injuries to stars and key players, there are compelling games to catch virtually every night. In the spirit of Thanksgiving this week, the SportsCasting crew teamed up to share […]
Since his All-Star sophomore campaign, LaMelo Ball’s career has been marred by injuries. It’s all too easy to forget that a then-20-year-old Ball led his Charlotte Hornets to the Play-In. Now in year five, a healthy Ball has continued ascending toward basketball superstardom. The 6-11 Hornets are a bad basketball team, limited by a lack […]
LaMelo Ball beat everyone but LeBron James to 700 career assists, leaving little doubt of his ing prowess in the process.
LaMelo Ball returned to the court for the Hornets which has also led to his return to the top of the Rookie of the Year betting odds.
