On Monday evening, LaMelo Ball popped up on the Charlotte Hornets' injury report with wrist soreness, something that has happened before. He was probable. On Tuesday, he was downgraded to questionable before being ruled out ahead of game time. This is a path he's taken many times this year.
Ball had wrist surgery in 2021 and has at times been bothered by it, and the Hornets decided it was worth sitting him down in what turned out to be a dismal showing in a blowout home loss to the Atlanta Hawks (who completed a four-game sweep of Charlotte).